Art Department Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition 2016 January 2016 | Page 48
John
Hitchcock
Professor
UW–Madison Department of Art,
since 2001
Printmaking, Installation
1997 Master of Fine Arts, Texas Tech University
1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cameron University
Recent achievements
2012–15 The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic Innovation
and Collaboration grant
2015 Weaving Past into Present: Experiments in Contemporary Native
American Printmaking, group show, International Print Center,
New York
2015 National Sanctuary, solo show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West
Bend, WI
2014 Traces of the Plains, solo show, Museum of Contemporary Native
Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2014 Ghosts of Brutality, solo show, Cornell Fine Arts Museum,
Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
2014 Songs for Spirit Lake, group show, North Dakota Museum of
Art, Grand Forks, ND
2013 Songs for Spirit Lake, group show, Robert Rauschenberg Project
Space, New York
2011–13 Creative Arts Award, UW–Madison Arts Institute
2012–13 Re-Envisioning The Plains, solo show, American Culture
Center, Shanghai, China
2011 Epicentro: Re Tracing the Plains, group show, University of
Ca’ Foscari, Venice Biennale 54th International Arts Exhibition,
Palazzo Cosulich, Zattere Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy
Artist’s statement
John Hitchcock was born in 1967 in Lawton, Oklahoma. Hitchcock’s
work has been exhibited at numerous national and international venues, notably Air, Land, Seed and Epicentro: Re Tracing the Plains curated
by Nancy Marie Mithlo on the occasions of the Venice Biennale 54th
and 55th International Arts Exhibitions at the University of Ca’ Foscari, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, Venice,
Italy; Songs for Spirit Lake, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation,
New York; The American Culture Center, Shanghai, China; Museum
of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Kumu Art
Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia; London Print Studio, London;
South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa; Museu de Arte
de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil; Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chile; International Print Center, New York; Museum of Arts and Design, NewYork; E