Southeast Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Eliot Dudik

Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 2:00pm, Mendenhall Student Center Great Room 1 and 2

Panel: The Portrait as Performance

Eliot Dudik is a photographic artist exploring the connection between culture, landscape, memory, and politics. Deep seated and sustained interest in the history of photography has guided much of his research and practice throughout his artistic career. His first
monograph, ROAD ENDS IN WATER, was published in 2010. In 2012, Dudik was named one of PDN's 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch and one of Oxford American Magazine's 100 New Superstars of Southern Art. His photographs have been exhibited in cities across the United States such as, Los Angeles, New York City, Washington DC, San Francisco, Houston, and Baltimore.
Eliot graduated cum laude from the College of Charleston in 2007, receiving a Bachelors of Science in Anthropology and a Bachelors of Art in Art History. He received his Masters of Fine Art in photography with honors at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010. Eliot joined the University of South Carolina faculty in the fall of 2011 as an adjunct professor of photography.