HUNT SLONEM
Born 1951, Kittery, Maine; lives in Manhattan, N.Y.
Hunt Slonem is a critically acclaimed, innovative painter based in Manhattan, New York. He spent much of his childhood moving around the U.S. as a result of his father’s military postings.
After completing school, Slonem commenced undergraduate studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, but later graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a focus on Painting and Art History. Slonem also took courses at the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine, where he was exposed to such eminent artists from the New York area as Louise Nevelson, Alex Katz, Alice Neel, Richard Estes, Jack Levine, and Al Held.
Hunt Slonem is best known for his expressionist paintings of tropical birds, based on a personal aviary in which he keeps about 100 live birds of various species. His fascination with exotica can be traced to his experiences as a child in Hawaii and as a foreign exchange student in Nicaragua. In the 1980s, after three trips to India, Slonem’s work became more formal and complex in composition. He began building patterns of repeat images of birds, butterflies, and other inhabitants of his peculiar world.
Hunt Slonem has received several grants and fellowships in recognition of his career. His work has been collected by over seventy museums, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, Spain and the Wurth Museum, Kunzelsau, Germany – to name a few.
LORIES BAYOU CASINO (2016) Oil on wood 29 1/2" x 22" 36" x 28 1/2" framed
SHYLER (2021) Oil on wood 10" x 8" 16" x 13 7/8" framed Exhibited at: “Hunt Slonem: Fantasia,” Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany, July 2 – September 4, 2022. Illustrated in: Hunt Slonem: Fantasia. Osthaus Museum exh. cat. 2022. #70.
SUN VALLEY (2016) Oil on wood 25" x 21";33" x 28 1/2" framed Exhibited at: “Hunt Slonem,” A. Kasteev State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan, June 1 – July 29, 2018. “Hunt Slonem,” National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana, Kazakhstan, October 5 – November 11, 2018. Illustrated in: Hunt Slonem. A. Kasteev State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan exh. cat. 2018. #28. Hunt Slonem. National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan exh. cat. 2018
PRESIDENT LINCOLN (2020) Oil on wood 20" x 16" 29 1/4" x 25 1/4" framed Exhibited at: “Hunt Slonem,” Šiauliai “Aušros” Museum: Chaim Frenkel Villa, Šiauliai, Lithuania, May 26 – July 3, 2022. “Hunt Slonem,” Art Museum Riga Bourse, Riga, Latvia, July 15 – September 5, 2022. Illustrated in: Hunt Slonem. Šiauliai “Aušros” Museum: Chaim Frenkel Villa exh. cat. 2022. #35. Hunt Slonem. Art Museum Riga Bourse exh. cat. 2022. #35.
UNTITLED (2014) Oil on canvas with diamond dust 42" x 60" Exhibited at: “Exotic World of Hunt Slonem: Paintings,” Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia, September 30 – November 1, 2015. Illustrated in: Hunt Slonem Paintings. Moscow Museum of Modern Art exh. cat. 2015. #24.
LORIES (2017) Oil on wood 32" x 28" 35 1/2" x 31 1/2" framed Exhibited at: "Hunt Slonem," Kiev Picture Gallery National Museum, Kiev, Ukraine, June 1 – June 30, 2019. "Hunt Slonem," Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odessa, Ukraine, July 4 – August 1, 2019. Illustrated in: Hunt Slonem. Kiev Picture Gallery National Museum exh. cat. 2019. #31. Hunt Slonem. Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art exh. cat. 2019. #31.
SHAMROCK BELLE TERRE (2018) Oil and acrylic with diamond dust on canvas 50" x 60" Exhibited at: “Magical World,” Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils, Latvia, July 3 – October 18, 2020. “Hunt Slonem,” Jelgava Museum of Art and History, Jelgava, Latvia, October 23 – December 8, 2020. Illustrated in: Hunt Slonem. Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center exh. cat. 2020. #50. Hunt Slonem. Jelgava Museum of Art and History exh. cat. 2020. #50.
PINK LINCOLN (2012) Oil on canvas 72" x 72"
UNTITLED (2019) Oil and acrylic with diamond dust on wood 10" x 8" 16 1/2" x 14 1/2" framed Exhibited at: “Magical World,” Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center, Daugavpils, Latvia, July 3 – October 18, 2020. “Hunt Slonem,” Jelgava Museum of Art and History, Jelgava, Latvia, October 23 – December 8, 2020. Illustrated in: Hunt Slonem. Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center exh. cat. 2020. #64. Hunt Slonem. Jelgava Museum of Art and History exh. cat. 2020. #64.
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