UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Over the past 12 years, Ellen Harvey (www. ellenharvey.info/) has exhibited her art pieces around the world, from Berlin, Germany to Lahore, Pakistan. In the process, she has garnered an impressive reputation for both her intriguing uses of materials, from Polaroid™ film to etched mirrors, and her playfully devastating institutional critiques. She is an artist, though she has never felt comfortable with the term, and seems at times to question the term’s relevance in a society where everyone seems to be creative. As someone who has taught and lectured in a number of prestigious universities, such as Yale and the University of Michigan, she is also currently concentrating on a number of exhibitions and her one-and-a-half-year-old son, who delightfully interrupted the interview on a number of occasions to discuss his impressive collection of hats.