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About the US-American David HILLIARD (b. 1964, in Lowell)
David HILLIARD is a fine arts photographer who works mainly with panoramic photographs, he draws inspiration from his personal life and those around him for his subject matter. Many of the scenes are staged, evoking a performative quality, a middle ground between fact and fiction. He received his MFA from Yale University in 1994. David HILLIARD lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and Maine.Photo books by David HILLIARD
'David Hilliard' (1998); 'Photographs' (2005); 'Caress' (2019, together with works by Elinor CARUCCI, Mickalene THOMAS); 'What could be' (2020)Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2008: 'Being Like', Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York2009: 'Being Like', Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica & Carroll and Sons, Boston; 'Highway of Thought', Maine Museum of Art, Bangor
2010: 'Highway of Thought', Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; 'Tending to Doubt', Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
2011: 'The Lives of David Hilliard', La Galerie Particuliere, Paris; 'Great Expectations: David Hilliard & David Rathman', Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City; 'Masculinity and Rites of Passage', The Groton School, Groton
2012: Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington; Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, Nashville
2013: 'The Tale is True', La Galerie Particuliere, Paris & Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
2014: 'Tall Tales & Short Stories', Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa
2015: 'Our Nature', Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland
2016: 'Our Nature', Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
2017: Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Massachusetts
Group exhibitions
2008: 'The Gaze', Singer Editions, Boston; 'The Good Life', Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York; 'For Artʼs Sake', Open House Gallery, New York; 'Presumed Innocence: Photographs of Children', DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts2009: 'Out of the Box: Photography Portfolios from the Permanent Collection', DeCordova Museum, Lincoln; 'Athens of America', St. Botolph Club, Boston; 'Glitz and Grime', Yancey Richardson, New York
2010: 'Incognito, The Hidden Self-Portrait, Yancey Richardson, New York; 'Do or Die. The Human Condition in Painting and Photography', The Wallraf-Richartz, Museum & Foundation Corboud, Cologne
2011: 'Beautiful Vagabonds, Birds in Contemporary Photography, Video and Sound', Yancey Richardson, New York; 'Hero Worship', Mindy Sololmon Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida; 'Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection', Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston; 'Becoming Muses', The Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York; 'People Power Places: Reframing the American Landscape', Davidson College, North Carolina; 'Remember Then: An Exhibition on the Photography of Memory', Concourse Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge; 'Open: A 25th Anniversary Show', Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City
2012: 'The Kids Are All Right', Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; 'Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography', Aperture Foundation, New York; 'Do or Die. The Human Condition in Painting and Photography', Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden
2013: 'The Kids Are All Right', Addison Museum of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; 'Transgressive Photography from the Hood Museum of Art', Hanover, Massachusetts; 'Woods, Lovely, Dark and Deep', DC Moore Gallery, New York; 'A selection of images from The Tale is True', Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown; 'Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles', Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
2014: 'Through the Lens: Portraiture & Self Portraiture', Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland; 'Breaking Ground', the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia; 'Glimpse', Gallery at Cassilhaus Chapel Hill, North Carolina; 'In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth', Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire
Grants and awards
1994: Alice Kimball English Travel Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven1995: Fulbright Grant, exchange between U.S. and Spain (Barcelona)
1999: Artist grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston
2000: Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, Cambridge
2001: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, New York
2002: Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, New York
2008: Massachusetts College of Art and Design Alumni Association Achievement Award, Boston
2010: Artist in residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
2012: Bok Center Award for excellence in teaching, Harvard University, Cambridge
2015: Artist residency, Twenty Summers, Provincetown, Massachusetts; Bok Center Award for excellence in teaching, Harvard University, Cambridge