David Hilliard

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.

David Hilliard studied at Yale University, Yale School of Art and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The recorded working language is English. Work by David Hilliard is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, New Mexico Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.

• 1994 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut • 1992 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts

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