Artist Bio

Hilary Williams is an artist living in San Francisco. She works in a number of mediums creating screen prints, paintings, drawings, and dolls. Hilary received her BA in printmaking with a focus in screen printing particularly. She still works in this medium passionately and incorporates its ideas and methods in her other work. Through layering and collage, she makes dense pieces that deal with the absurdity of our culture by laughing, crying, or standing back in awe.
Hilary uses collages of photography, drawing, painting, patterning and other marks to create layers of images and meaning. Her works deal with a variety of emotions about the coexistence of our urban landscape, nature and humanity. She is continually inspired by her surroundings, todays urban and natural environments, and will admit to influences from Dada, Surrealism and Pop art.
In creating her screen prints she takes her own photographs, and each other stencil is created by hand, with ten to twenty layers printed on each piece. Her paintings are composed of stretched found fabrics with screen printing and acrylics, and her dolls are collaged with recycled fabrics into different life forms.
Hilary grew up in the bay area, and received her BA in Printmaking from California College of Art in Oakland 2002. She now lives and works in San Francisco.

 

Artist Resume

Education
* May 2002 - received BFA in Printmaking from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
* March 2006 - internship at Tinhorn Public Works Gallery, San Francisco, California
* Summer 1997 - attended Interlochen Center for the Arts program, Interlochen, Michigan
* Summer 1995 & 96 - attended CCAC Pre College Program, Oakland, California

Awards
* March 2002 - Trillium Prize. This award entitles recipient to create work in a unique professional print shop. Trillium Press, Brisbane, CA
* April 1999 - Yozo Hamaguchi scholarship in printmaking at CCAC

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
* October 2007 - Frankee Uno Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* November 2007 - Secession Art & Design, San Francisco, CA. Showing with Ivy Jacobson
* December 2007 - The Press Club, Portland, Or
* February 2007 - Hotel Biron, San Francisco, CA
* December 2006 - Levy Art and Architecture, San Francisco, CA. Shown with Brian Gorman
* July 2006 - Blo Salon, San Francisco, CA
* November 2003 - Life Cafe and Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
* October 2002 - Missing Piece Gallery, Iowa City, IA
* June 2002 - 40th Street Gallery, Oakland, CA. Shown with Mike Start
* May 2002 and November 2001 - Print Shop Gallery, Oakland CA
* March 2002 - Center Gallery, Oakland, CA. BFA Show
* December 1999 - Printshop Gallery, Oakland, CA . Shown with Deth P. Sun
* September 1999 - North Gallery, Oakland, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
* Nov / Dec 2007 - Varnish Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, Off the Wall
* July 2007 - Outer Edge Studio, Monterey, CA, Favorites Show
* June 2007 - Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Re Art Show
* June 2007 - Chillin' Productions Show, San Francisco, CA
* May 2007 - Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA. Silent Art Auction
* May 2007 - Artizmo Gallery - San Rafel, CA
* June 2006 thru present - Artist X - Change Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* May 2006 thru present - City Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* December 2006 - Chillin' Productions Show, San Francisco, CA
* July 2006 - Tinhorn Public Works Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Facing West.
* July 2006 - Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA. Virus Exhibition.
* September 2002 - Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA. Printmaking 2002.
* August 2002 - City Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Trillium Press Exhibition, Traditional and Contemporary Printmaking.
* July 2002 - Blue Catfish Studios, Portland, OR. Monthly Artist Exhibition.