BIO
Stuart Hawkins is an American visual artist whose practice functions as a language; arranging components of place, shape, and space she creates unexpected, visual relationships that form new, narrative trails into our cultural, environmental, and psychological landscapes. For 15 years Hawkins lived in Nepal where she worked collaboratively with friends and strangers to make photographic/video works in opposition to the predominant “otherized" gaze of the National Geographic lens. Hawkins now lives in Brooklyn where she paints hypothetical, global scenarios that embody the human condition on an individual and collective scale. Her work has been shown at Zach Feuer Gallery, Peres Projects, Artists Space, The Lincoln Center, Schirn Kunsthalle, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Norton Museum of Art, and the Frye Museum of Art to name a few. Her work has been reviewed and published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Modern Painters, Blind Spot, Flash Art, and the Village Voice. She is a 2020 Shandanken Paint School fellow. Other awards include the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency, Rema Hort Mann Art Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, Aaron Siskind Individaul Photographers Grant, Macdowell Colony Residency, and The American Institute of Photography Fellowship.