Will Hutnick (b. 1985) is an artist based in Sharon, CT. He received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 2011 and his B.A. from Providence College in 2007. Hutnick is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting, as well as a grant recipient from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation in 2017 and 2023, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2016. Solo exhibitions include: Geary Contemporary (Millerton, NY), Pamela Salisbury Gallery (Hudson, NY), Elijah Wheat Showroom (Newburgh, NY), Standard Space (Sharon, CT), Providence College Galleries (Providence, RI), One River School (Hartsdale, NY), The Java Project (Brooklyn, NY), and St. Thomas Aquinas College (Sparkill, NY). Selected group exhibitions include: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz, NY), Hollis Taggart (Southport, CT), Geary Contemporary (Millerton, NY), 1969 Gallery (New York, NY), Heaven Gallery (Chicago, IL) and Collar Works (Troy, NY). Hutnick has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Interlude Artist Residency, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, DNA Artist Residency, Hewnoaks, Stove Works, and the Wassaic Project, as well as a curator-in-residence at Benaco Arte and Trestle Projects. He has curated numerous exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Trestle Projects, Pratt Institute, Wassaic Project, Troutbeck and Standard Space. His work has been featured in The New York Times, New American Paintings, and Hyperallergic, among others. From 2015-20, Hutnick was one of the Co-Directors of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn. He is currently the Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change. 

 

 

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whutnick@gmail.com / @willhutnick

 

EDUCATION

2011   

MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2007    

BA, Providence College, Providence, RI

 

AWARDS / GRANTS

2023

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Martha Boschen Porter Fund, grant recipient

2021

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting

2020

Collar Works, Troy, NY, flat files

2018

Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY, flat files

Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY, flat files

2017

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Martha Boschen Porter Fund, grant recipient

Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY, flat files

2015

Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant, grant recipient

Pierogi Gallery, New York, NY, flat files

Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY, flat files

 

SOLO / TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025

McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH, QUEER HORIZONS  (forthcoming)

2024

Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, Changing Faster than the Weather

Geary Contemporary, Millerton, NY, SATELLITE 

2023

Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY, Eternal Sunshine

2022

Elijah Wheat Showroom, Newburgh, NY, Press Play & Record

2021

Soho Works, Brooklyn, NY, Another Sun Soaked Season Fades Away

2019

Azarian McCullough Gallery, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY, In the shape that chance and wind give the clouds

Standard Space, Sharon, CT, Applause Between Movements

One River School, Hartsdale, NY, Somewhere In The Half Light

2017

The Java Project, Brooklyn, NY, mural

2016

Apothecary Gallery, Chattanooga, TN, Will Hutnick: A Retrospective (Of sorts)

Providence College Galleries, Providence, RI, But We’re Getting Off The Subject

DEMO Project, Springfield, IL, Excavators (two-person exhibition with Mark Joshua Epstein)

2015

The Java Project, Brooklyn, NY, YOU’RE A GHOST

2013    

The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ, He Chutes He Scores

Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Q-ZAR

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY, The Pull (curated by Eric Hibit), forthcoming

2024

High Noon, New York, NY, Keep Feeling Fascination 

Providence College Galleries, Providence, RI, Contour: Selections from the Collection

Opalka Gallery, Russell Sage College, Albany, NY, Painting at Night, in collaboration with Collar Works and Artist/Mother Podcast 

Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA, Stop Making Sense 

ART06870, Old Greenwich, CT, Movers and Makers

Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID, Spring Flowers

2023

ART06870, Old Greenwich, CT, First Light

Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA, Black and White

Craven Contemporary, Kent, CT, Five Years Part II

Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery at Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, Do or Don’t Do It Yourself: A Paint By Numbers Show (curated by Kirstin Lamb)

2022

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, The Material, The Thing (curated by Nicole Hayes)

Providence College Galleries, Providence, RI, Nature Morte (Sort Of)

Hollis Taggart, Southport, CT, Beyond the Surface

Soft Times Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Marmalade Visions

LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, Mountain High, Valley Low: Artists of the Hudson Valley

Soft Times Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Small Works

Hewitt Gallery of Art at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY, Artists Draw Their Studios (curated by Michelle Weinberg)

Equity Gallery, New York, NY, Making Sense Without Consensus

2021

Geary Contemporary, Millerton, NY, As The World Turns

1969 Gallery, New York, NY, “I have an idea!”

Sugarlift, New York, NY, Post Painterly Now

Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL, Bounce Back (curated by Emily Lindskoog and Karen Dana Cohen)

Satellite Art Club, Brooklyn, NY, FABstraction (curated by Brian Andrew Whiteley)

Fivesparks, Harvard, MA, Mediated Landscapes (curated by Mathew Tucker)

Kleinert/James Center for the Arts at Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY, Artists Draw Their Studios (curated by Michelle Weinberg)

Art Austerlitz, Austerlitz, NY, Pattern (curated by Ryan Turley)

2020

Monaco, St. Louis, MO, Bite The Hand

Azarian McCullough Art Gallery, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, NY

Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, Art Off-Screen (curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch)

Craven Contemporary, Kent, CT, Summer Stock

Arcade Project Curatorial, online, Gay Guerrilla: New Conversations in Queer Abstraction

Art Austerlitz, Austerlitz, NY, COMING SOON (curated by Ryan Turley)

Collar Works, Troy, NY, Northern Lights

2019

Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY, Under Time of Lampshades 

Glenlily Grounds, Newburgh, NY, Glenlily Grounds 2019

The Yard, Brooklyn, NY, Dot Conference (curated by Kirstin Lamb)

The Painting Center, New York, NY, Green: The Impossible Color

LVL3, Chicago, IL, Cloud 9 

2018

Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY, The Flat File: Year Six

Untitled Art, Pratt Fine Arts, Miami Beach, FL 

GlenLily Grounds, Newburgh, NY, GlenLily Grounds 2018 (curated by Lacey Fekishazy)

Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, VOX IV: Omnipresent Elsewhere (curated by Didier William)

Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY, Midnight (curated by Rose Nestler)

Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Brooklyn, NY, Order My Steps (curated by Ryan Frank and Amelia Brod)

LVL3, Chicago, IL, Systems at Play

LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, Taconic North

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, Materiality (curated by Sue and Phil Knoll)

DEMO Project, Springfield, IL, demo DEMO

2017

Satellite Art Show, Miami Beach, FL, Linear Anagram (curated by Christopher Stout)

FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Apparitions

GlenLily Grounds, Newburgh, NY, GlenLily Grounds (curated by Lacey Fekishazy)

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Primary Gesture (curated by Kelly Worman and Susan Luss)

Standard Projects, Hortonville, WI, Settling The Ghost, curated by Young Space 

2016

Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY, The Flat Files: Year Four

AUTOMAT, Philadelphia, PA, Serious Play

David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY, Making The Future

Trestle Contemporary Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Plus One (curated by Melissa Staiger)

The Woskob Family Gallery, State College, PA, Deal With It! (curated by Emily Burns)

Field Projects in New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, Ghosts (curated by Beth Livensperger)

VICTORI+MO, Brooklyn, NY, 30 Under 30ish

Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, Appetite for Destruction

Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN, From Here (curated by Zach Searcy)

SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Skylight at Moynihan Station, New York, NY, Rebus (curated by Christopher Stout)

Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, LAZULI (curated by Enrico Gomez)

2015

Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, NY, OVERRIPE

Satellite Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV, Satellite Square, Migrational Methods & a Gonzo Gesture

Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA, Spin, Dazzle, Fade

Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, Deep End

500x Gallery, Dallas, TX, Family Ties (curated by Bonny Leibowitz and Julie Torres)

Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas, TX, Private Eyes | Grey Sunsets

Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, New Work City (curated by Julie Torres)

2014

Nelson Macker Fine Art, Port Chester, NY, Brooklyn Art Party (curated by Kristen Schiele)

Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY, The Flat Files: Year Two

3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY, Do It Yourself (curated by Julie Torres)

Pratt Institute & Steuben Galleries, Brooklyn, NY, Pratt M.F.A. Alumni Exhibition (curated by Honey Ramka)

City Art Center, Delaware, OH, Image Search

Loft 594, Brooklyn, NY, X-istential

2013

Brooklyn Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY, Ransom

Governors Island Art Fair, Governors Island, NY

City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, Unsteady Ground: What Is Drawing?

2012

Hot Wood Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY, The White Show: Hot Wood Volume IV

2011

Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID, Young Collector Show

Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY, Pratt Institute MFA Exhibition

 

RESIDENCIES

2024

Interlude Artist Residency, Livingston, NY 

Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Full Fellowship

2023

Hewnoaks Artist Residency, Lovell, ME

2022

DNA Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA

Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN

2021

DNA Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA

Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, Laceyville, PA

2019

Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA

Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works, Granville, NY

2018

DNA Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA

2017

Benaco Arte, Sirmione, Italy, curator-in-residence

DNA Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA

2015

Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY

Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, NY, curator-in-residence

2014

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY

Uprise Art, Uprise Outpost, New York, NY

2013    

4 heads, Governors Island, NY

Art Maze Mag, Issue #7

VISITING ARTIST / LECTURES / PANELS

2024

Stove Works (Chattanooga, NY), workshop

Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, NY), Visiting Artist, artist talk and studio visits

Turley Gallery (Hudson, NY), panel moderator with Jenny Kemp and Cory Emma Siegler

Low Season Artist Projects, studio visit

Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY), artist talk

Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY), artist talk

Geary Contemporary (Millerton, NY), artist talk with Laura van Straaten

NYC Crit Club, artist talk (online)

Paradice Palase, artist talk (online)

2023

Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY), artist talk and studio visits

Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver, CA), artist talk and studio visits (online)

Western CT State University (Danbury, CT), artist talk and studio visits

Interlude Artist Residency (Hudson, NY), studio visits

NYC Crit Club, artist talk (online)

Purchase College SUNY (Purchase, NY) artist talk and studio visits

MICA (Baltimore, MD), portfolio review (online)

Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Review Panel

2022

Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY), slide talk (online)

SVA (New York, NY), studio visits

MICA (Baltimore, MD), portfolio review (online)

NYC Crit Club, Art Career Intensive, instructor (online)

Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY), studio visits (online)

2021

Swiss Institute (New York, NY), artist talk (online)

NYC Crit Club, Art Career Intensive, instructor (online)

University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AK), artist talk (online)

MICA (Baltimore, MD), artist talk + portfolio review (online)

2020

SVA (New York, NY), studio visits (online)

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), artist talk (online)

NYC Crit Club, artist talk and studio visits (online)

College of Charleston (Charleston, SC), artist talk (online)

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York, NY), studio visits (online)

2019

University of Georgia (Athens, GA), studio visits and slide talk

NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), studio visits

Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY), studio visits

Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY), studio visits

Residency Unlimited (Brooklyn, NY), studio visits

2018

SVA (New York, NY), studio visits

Art Omi (Ghent, NY), studio visits

BRIC and Urban Glass (Brooklyn, NY), curatorial review panel

Lower East Side Print Shop, Keyholder Residency, review panel

Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY), slide talk

NYC Creative Discussion at Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY), “Identity”, panel discussion and moderator

ChaNorth (Pine Plains, NY), studio visits

Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY), “Art in the Age of Instagram Culture”, panel discussion (moderated by Nat Meade)

Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), slide talk

North Park University (Chicago, IL), slide talk

The Maple Terrace (Brooklyn, NY), studio visits

Brooklyn Wayfarers (Brooklyn, NY), studio visits

2017

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York, NY), studio visits

NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), studio visits

Residency Unlimited (Brooklyn, NY), studio visits

ChaNorth (Pine Plains, NY), studio visits

2016   

University of Tennessee at Knoxville (Knoxville, TN), studio visits

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Chattanooga, TN), slide talk and studio visits

Providence College Galleries (Providence, RI), artist talk

George Mason University (Fairfax, VA), slide talk

Flux Factory (Queens, NY), studio visits

Illinois State University (Springfield, IL), gallery talk

2015   

Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY), “Artist as Curator”, panel (moderated by Kelly Worman)

2014   

Loft 594 (Brooklyn, NY), “Process versus Concept”, panel (moderated by Mark Sengbusch)

 

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015 – Current

Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, Director of Artistic Programming

2015 – 2020

Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY, Co-Director