Arlene Slavin is a painter, sculptor, and print-maker also known for her large-scale public art commissions. She earned a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from Pratt Institute. In 1977 she was awarded the National Endowment Grant in Printmaking. She has been a visiting critic at University of Pennsylvania Graduate Art School, Syracuse University, the Pratt Institute, and Skowhegan Art School.

Her work was selected for inclusion in the 1973 Whitney Museum Biennial, and she has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Hessel Museum of Art, the Bronx Museum, Bass Museum of Art, Virginia Art Museum, Queens Museum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art and in many other institutions and galleries throughout the country.

Slavin’s work is held in museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Orlando Museum of Art, Fogg Art Museum, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, among numerous others.

She lives and works in New York City and Wainscott, New York.