Background
David Travis was born in 1948 in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
David Travis was born in 1948 in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
Travis received a BA in Art History in 1971 from the University of Chicago, Illinois.
Since 1977 he has been curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, before which he was its assistant curator (1974-77) and photography lecturer (1972-74). In 1972 he held a Research Fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.