Eric Avery, MD is a physician and an artist living in Galveston, TX.
He is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Associate Member of The Institute for the Medical Humanities at The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
For thirty years he has made prints, paper and worked as a physician and psychiatrist.
His social content prints explore issues such as human rights abuses, and social responses to disease (HIV and Emerging Infectious Diseases), death, sexuality and the body.
His art medicine actions have given form to the liminal space between art and medicine.
He has had numerous solo exhibitions in the United States and his prints are in many collections, including the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, The Library of Congress, ARS Medica Collection at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Boston Museum of Art, the National Library of Medicine, the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University School of Medicine. In England, work is included in The Wellcome Trust Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
For more information, and to view Dr. Avery’s art, please visit his website.
