Born 1964, Lowell, MA
Lives and works in Boston, MA
Education
1994 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1992 BA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 New/Now, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Verifier, Quality Pictures, Portland, OR
Verifier, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
Saturate, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2006 The Favorite, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 Ladies, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
Desired Effect, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Embellish, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Embellish, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
New Works, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2004 David Hilliard, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, Germany
2003 There's Only Biography, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
David Hilliard, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
So Close – So Far Away, Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, Germany
So Close – So Far Away, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Catch & Release, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Catch & Release, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta GA
David Hilliard, Blue Sky Gallery, Seattle, WA
New Works, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
David Hilliard, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR
2001 Making Boys Cry, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 New Photographs, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Photographs of Endurance, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1999 The Center of Photography, Tenerife, SPA
The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
New Work-New England: David Hilliard, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
1998 University of Salamanca, (catalogue), Salamanca, ESP
The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Dad, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1997 Gallery Railowsky, Valencia, ESP
Life in Progress, Gallery Espai Fotografic Can Baste, Barcelona, ESP
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Presumed Innocence: Photographs of Children, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
The Good Life, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
For Art's Sake, Openhouse Gallery, New York, NY, a collaborative exhibition and silent auction with Ford Modeling Agency to raise awareness and funding for ACRIA (AIDS Community Research Initiative of America)
2007 Building a Collection: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
David Hilliard and Sam Taylor Wood, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Window/Interface, The Kemper Art Museum at Washington University, St. Louis, MO
An Instinctive Eye, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine
2006 Modern Photographs: The Machine, the Body and the City, Gifts from the Charles Cowles
Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Approaches to Narrative, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture, Lincoln, MA
I Love the Burbs, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Arcadia, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Photographers View: Found and Invented Constructs, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland,
OR
Taking Inventory: Transformation Through Compilation, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica,
CA
2004 NADA Art Fair, Mark Moore Gallery, Miami, FL
The Nude, Ideal and Reality, Galleria d'Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Pure, David Hilliard and Ryan McGinley, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Self and Soul: The Architecture of Intimacy, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
2003 Re-Presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY 2002
David Hilliard and Jessica Todd Harper, Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon Center for the
Photographic Arts, Inc., Portland, OR
Two of US, LA Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, Germany
2001 Blindspot Exhibition, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA; travelled to The Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO; Digital Printmaking at Singer Editions, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Exhibition, Massachusetts College of Art, Blind Spot Magazine #17, Boston, MA
2000 New Works: Mark Bennett, David Hilliard, Ken Kelly, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica,
CA
Something About the Girl, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
7x7x7, Gallery Rekalde, (catalogue), Bilbao, ESP
Face Off, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
1998 Portraits of the Everyday, Gallery Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, ESP
ARCO Festival, Gallery Salvador Diaz, Madrid, ESP
1997 Fragments, Gallery Metronom, Barcelona, ESP
The Album, When The Look Caresses, Gallery Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, ESP
1995 Exhibition for Blind Spot Magazine, McKinney Arts Center, Dallas, TX
Verisimilitude and Utility of Doubt, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
Grants & Awards
2002 Peter Reed Foundation Photography Grant
2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation – The Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2000 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1999 Artist Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston, MA,
1995 Fulbright Grant, exchange between U.S. and Spain, Barcelona, Spain
1994 Alice Kimball English Travel Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven CT
Selected Collections
Art Institute of Chicago Art Museum, Chicago IL
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
List Visual Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Private Collection of Sir Elton John, Atlanta GA and Great Britain
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
The Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Mario Testino, Paris, France
Neuberger and Berman, New York, NY
The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
The Community of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
The University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Bibliography
Night Visions, Contemporary Male Photography, an anthology, Berlin, Germany, 2008
Saturate, solo exhibition catalogue, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
Catalogue: An Instinctive Eye, A Selection of Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, Kiev, Ukraine, 2007
Window/Interface, exhibition catalogue, Kemper Art Museum at Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2007
One of a Kind: Portraits from the LaSalle Bank Collection, Chicago, IL, 2006
Keiter, Ellen J., "I Love the Burbs," Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, 2006.
Blind Spot Magazine #32, Featured Photographer, New York, NY, 2006.
Pinsent, Richard. "First Monograph for David Hilliard", The Art Newspaper, London, November, 2005.
Cunningham, Caroline. House and Garden, New York, NY, June, 2005.
Valdesolo, Fiorella. Nylon, New York, NY, May, 2005.
The Village Voice, David Hilliard monograph, New York, NY, April, 2005.
Vanity Fair, Fainfair for David Hilliard monograph, New York, NY, April, 2005
Photo District News, Aperture monograph, pick of the month, April, 2005
Ha, Teresa, "Aperture monograph," Popular Photography, April, 2005
"David Hilliard" monograph, Aperture Foundation Publishers, New York, NY, 2005
Ed. Art in America, Review: David Hilliard at Yancey Richardson Gallery, November, 2004
Ed. Arning, Bill, Aperture Magazine, Featured Photographer, Winter Issue, New York, NY, 2004
Ed. The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, David Hilliard at Yancey Richardson Gallery, March 8, 2004
Ed. May Out Magazine, featured photographer, Los Angeles, CA, 2004
Ed. May Blue Magazine, featured photographer, Australia, 2004
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Meyer, Joshua. "David Hilliard's Family Values", ArtsMedia, Boston, MA January 2000.
Schubert, Lawrence. Flaunt, (article and photo), November 2000, pp. 100.
Bock, Duncan, ed. Voyeur: an Anthology of Voyeurism in Historic and Contemporary Photography, New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1999.
Ed. "Moving The Eye Through Time", South End News, Boston, MA, April 29, 1999.
Ed. Catalog: solo exhibition, The University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, November 1998.
Sherman, Mary. "Photographer's Subject Is A Lone Wolf In Father's Clothing", Boston Herald, Boston, MA, June 21, 1998.
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Ed. Catalog: The Album, When the Look Caresses, Gallery Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain June 1997.
Clarke, Nick. "David Hilliard", C-plus, Boston, MA, Summer 1998.
De Verick, Lance, Nightlife Magazine. Interview and photographs, pp. 8,9.
Ed. Matador Magazine (featured photographer), Madrid, Spain, October 1997.
Ed. Blind Spot Magazine (featured photographer), New York, NY, November 1995.
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