Selected Exhibitions:

Curator:

2012: Shaping Community: Poetics and Politics of the Eruv. Three-venue exhibition at Yale University: Institute of Sacred Music; Slifka Center for Jewish Life; 32 Edgewood Gallery, October – December.

 Artist:One and Two Person Exhibitions:

2022 Gone Like a Sip of Water - راح زي شربة مي Sarah Smith Gallery, Yale Divinity School.

2020:         Can Rocks Feel Pain: The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine. With Texts by David Shulman. Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University.

2018-20:    Marking Time: Photographs from Dheisheh Refugee Camp, 2014-2017. Palestine Museum, Woodbridge, CT.

2017:         Selections from Marking Time: Photographs from Dheisheh Refugee Camp, 2014-2017. Davenport College, Yale University.

     Women, Caves, Energy. Beth El-Keser Synagogue, New Haven, CT

2016:         Waiting Rooms of History: Photographs by Stephanie Schultz and Margaret Olin. Kunstverein, Paderborn, Germany

2013:         Poetics and Politics of the Eruv: Photographs by Margaret Olin; Paintings by Ben Schachter. Adas Israel Synagogue, Sag Harbor, New York, May 24 – August 31

Group:

2020:   The Winter Garden Project, Houston Center for Photography.

2019:   Ineffable Manifestations, Miller Hall, Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University.

2017:   Far from the Front Lines. Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL. September 8 – October 1.

Bethlehem Beyond the Wall. Organized by the Museum of the Palestinian People. Initiated, Nazareth College, Rochester, New York. October 1-14. Other venues: New York City, Richmond, VA, and Springfield, MO.

2015:   Death of the Straight. 140 Herzl Gallery, Tel Aviv. June 11-18.

2012:   “Urban Bricolage” and “No Carry Zone.” In Shaping Community: Poetics and Politics of the Eruv. Yale University, October - December.

About MARGARET OLIN

I am a scholar and artist based in New Haven, Connecticut. I have a PhD from the University of Chicago and studied photography with Aaron Siskind as a graduate student at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology. Among my recent books are Touching Photographs (Chicago, 2012), and Photography and Imagination, edited with Amos Morris-Reich, (New York and London, 2019).

I have always regarded photography as a research tool analogous to my scholarship. In both, I try to make visible and meaningful the mundane and unnoticeable signs in the world around me. For the last fifteen years, I have been combining the two activities in publications and exhibitions. In 2012, I curated the multi-venue exhibition Shaping Community: Poetics and Politics of the Eruv at Yale University, to which I contributed the photographic installations “No Carry Zone” and “Urban Bricolage.” Beginning in 2014, my photographic work has centered on the visual culture of the occupation in Israel and Palestine. My photographs have been exhibited in Germany, Israel, and the United States.

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