Art Department Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition 2016 January 2016

Stephen Hilyard Professor UW–Madison Department of Art, since 2004 Digital Media 30 Quadrennial 2016 | Faculty 1997 Master of Fine Arts, University of Southern California 1989 Master of Arts in Architecture, University of Humberside, England 1983 Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, Edinburg College of Art, Scotland Recent achievements 2015 Seeking the Sublime, solo show, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, MN 2014 Mountain, solo show, Platform Gallery, Seattle 2014–16 Vilas Associate Award, UW–Madison 2014 Magnetic North: Artists and the Arctic Circle, group show, UBS Gallery, New York 2013 Wisconsin Triennial, group show, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI 2013 One Life & Always, group show, A Thin Place, Berlin 2013 Sunflower, solo show, Traction Arts, Los Angeles 2012 Unnatural Formations, group show, Scandinavia House Gallery, New York 2012 Artist Fellowship, American-Scandinavian Foundation 2011 San Andreas Fellowship, The Huntington Library About the artist: Stephen Hilyard creates artwork in a wide range of media both digital and traditional. A common theme in his work is the paradoxical nature of our impulse towards the profound—at once both sincere at an emotional level whilst remaining in every way mediated by our culture. In particular his work deals with the sublime experience and often presents nature and landscape as digitally manipulated simulacra. His art projects often involve travel to remote locations, including diving in a frigid Icelandic lake and several expeditions to Svalbard international territory in the high Arctic. Hilyard was born in Britain, where he trained to be an architect. He subsequently supported himself by working as an architect while developing a career as an artist. After traveling and living in Africa for several years, he moved to San Francisco where he continued to make art, specializing in sculpture. During this time he worked as a professional sculptor in a fine-art bronze foundry before moving to Los Angeles to study at the University of Southern California. After receiving his MFA, he worked as a specialist fine-art fabricator helping to create work for artists including Jeff Koons and Claes Oldenburg. From 1999 to 2004 he taught sculpture and 3D digital media at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Hilyard’s work has been exhibited internationally, including galleries in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis, London, Berlin, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Dubai, Sao Paulo, Riga, Perth and Sydney. Hilyard’s practice has been supported by grants and fellowships from The Huntington Library, The Harpo Foundation, The American Scandinavian Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, The Wisconsin Arts Board and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Work in the show Stephen Hilyard (British, b. 1961) “Prelude– Катюша,” 2016 Three-channel video installation with audio 132 x 26 x 2 ¾ in.

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