David Hilliard (born 1964 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is an American photographer. 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 BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 1992 and his MFA from Yale University in 1994. During his time at Yale, he studied with photographers who shot in the panoramic style and focused on the technical aspect of the medium.
Hilliard has served as assistant professor in Boston at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and as Artist-in-Residence in the Photography Department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. He has also taught at Harvard University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Education 1994 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut 1992 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts
Exhibitions Recent Solo Exhibitions 2017 David Hilliard - Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts 2016 “Our Nature”, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut 2015 “Our Nature”, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2014 “Tall Tales & Short Stories”, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, Florida 2013 “The Tale is True”, La Galerie Particuliere, Paris, France 2013 "The Tale is True," Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, New York 2012 Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 2012 Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, Nashville, Tennessee 2011 "The Lives of David Hilliard," La Galerie Particuliere, Paris, France 2011 "Great Expectations: David Hilliard & David Rathman," Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, California 2011 "Masculinity and Rites of Passage: Photography by David Hilliard," The Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts 2010 “Tending to Doubt,” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia 2010 “Highway of Thought,” Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 2009 “Highway of Thought,” University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, Maine 2009 “Being Like,” Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California 2009 “Being Like,” Carroll and Sons, Boston, Massachusetts 2008 “Being Like,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, New York
Recent group exhibitions 2014 “Through the Lens: Portraiture & Self Portraiture”, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2014 “Breaking Ground”, the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 2014 “Glimpse,” Gallery at Cassilhaus Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2014 “In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth”, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire 2013 “The Kids Are All Right”, Addison Museum of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts 2013 “Transgressive Photography from the Hood Museum of Art”, Hanover, Massachusetts 2013 “Woods, Lovely, Dark and Deep”, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York 2013 A selection of images from “The Tale is True”, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts 2013 “Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles”, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas 2012 “The Kids Are All Right”, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 2012 “Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography,” Aperture Foundation, New York, New York 2012 “Do or Die. The Human Condition in Painting and Photography,” Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany 2011 “Beautiful Vagabonds, Birds in Contemporary Photography, Video and Sound,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, New York 2011 “Hero Worship”, Mindy Sololmon Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida 2011 “Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 2011 “Becoming Muses” The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York 2011 “Masculinity and Rites of Passage: Photography by David Hilliard”, The Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts 2011 “People Power Places: Reframing the American Landscape”, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina 2011 “Remember Then: An Exhibition on the Photography of Memory”, Concourse Gallery - Center for Government and International Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2011 “Open: A 25th Anniversary Show”, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, California 2010 “Incognito, The Hidden Self-Portrait”, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, New York 2010 “Do or Die. The Human Condition in Painting and Photography,” The Wallraf-Richartz, Museum & Foundation Corboud, Cologne, Germany 2009 “Out of the Box: Photography Portfolios from the Permanent Collection,” DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts 2009 “Athens of America,” St. Botolph Club, Boston, Massachusetts 2009 “Glitz and Grime,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, New York 2008 “The Gaze,” Singer Editions, Boston, Massachusetts 2008 “The Good Life,” Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, New York 2008 “For Artʼs Sake,” Open House Gallery, New York, New York, 2008 “Presumed Innocence: Photographs of Children,” DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Complete exhibitions list available here: David Hilliard's CV
Selected collections Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts Art Institute of Chicago Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina Fidelity Investments, Boston, Massachusetts Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts George Eastman House, Rochester, New York Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago, Illinois List Visual Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, Washington Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Neuberger and Berman, New York, New York New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon Sir Elton John, Atlanta, Georgia - London, England The Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts The Cleveland Clinic, Lyndurst, Ohio The Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina The Community of Madrid, Madrid, Spain The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts The Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California The University of Maine, Bangor, Maine The University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Grants and awards 2015 Artist residency, Twenty Summers, Provincetown, Massachusetts 2015 Bok Center Award for excellence in teaching, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2012 Bok Center Award for excellence in teaching, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2010 Artist in residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 2008 Massachusetts College of Art and Design Alumni Association Achievement Award, Boston, Massachusetts 2002 Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, New York, New York 2001 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, New York, New York 2000 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1999 Artist grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston, Massachusetts 1995 Fulbright Grant, exchange between U.S. and Spain (Barcelona) 1994 Alice Kimball English Travel Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
References
David Hilliard's website Carroll and Sons Gallery Yancey Richardson Gallery Jackson Fine Art Gallery La Galerie Particuliere Schoolhouse Gallery