David Hilliard

David Hilliard creates large-scale, multi-paneled color photographs, often based on his life or the lives of people around him.  His panoramas direct the viewer’s gaze across the image surface allowing narrative, time and space to unfold.  Hilliard received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1992 and MFA from Yale University in 1994.  He worked for many years as an assistant professor at Yale University where he also directed the undergraduate photo department.  He has also taught at Harvard University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and spent the spring of 2010 at Dartmouth College as their artist in residence.  He is currently an assistant professor in Boston at the Massachusetts College of Art and visiting faculty at Harvard.  

 

Hilliard exhibits his photographs both nationally and internationally and has won numerous awards, such as the Fulbright and Guggenheim.  His photographs can be found in many important collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  His work is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica and in Paris at La Galerie Particuliere.  In 2005 a collection of his photographs was published in a monograph by Aperture Press.  For more information, visit www.DavidHilliard.com

This presentation and the “Highway of Thought” exhibition are free and open to the public.

Watkins is located at 2298 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard in MetroCenter; free parking is available in the campus lot.  For more information call 615-383-4848.