Meg Hitchcock

Axis Mundi
Meg Hitchcock, Dorothy Robinson, Kurt Steger
13 May – 25 June 2022
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Meg Hitchcock is known for text-based work that explores spirituality, language, and faith systems, and invites us to consider how these structures shape our experience of the world. Methodically cutting letters from one sacred text to create intricate compositions that form the writings of another, Hitchcock creates space for the consideration of multiple religious traditions at once, and asks whether their essential meanings might be the same. In her latest work, Hitchcock combines sacred texts with painting, sewing, and burning, incorporating visual elements and shadows that represent a diversity of perspectives and light sources in dialogue with the text in her pieces. Per Hitchcock, “In the process of deconstructing and reconstructing sacred texts, I found a way to express my deep reverence for the word of God.” Hitchcock received her B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute and studied classical painting in Florence, Italy. She has been awarded prestigious residencies throughout the US, including at the Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts in Charleston, South Carolina, where she was the artist-in-residence in fall of 2022. She is a 2023 Gottlieb Foundation Grant Recipient, a prestigious honor given to just 20 artists worldwide annually who “have worked for 20 years or more in a mature phase of art… in order to recognize and support the serious, fully-committed artist.” Hitchcock’s work has been shown nationally and internationally, and has been included in shows at MASS MoCA, Currier Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum, CODA Museum (Netherlands), and Virginia MOCA. Her work has been reviewed in numerous publications, including Art in America, ArtCritical, The New Criterion, Huffington Post, and Hyperallergic.

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Education
1996 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1988-89 Fortman and Cecil-Graves Studios, Florence, Italy
Residencies/Grants
2023 Gottieb Foundation Grant Recipient
2022 Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts, Charleston, SC: Artist in Residence
2020 Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY: Artist in Residence
2016 MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA: Artist Residency
2011 Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY: AIM Program
1989 Study Grant: Childe Foundation, Florence, Italy
Solo Shows
2024
Argosy Books, NY, NY: Context
2021
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT: New Works on Paper
2020
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY: Illuminate
2019
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY: Cathedral
2018
ODETTA, Brooklyn, NY: Fever Songs (with the composer John Morton)
2017
Studio10, Brooklyn, NY: 10,000 Mantras
2015
Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY: Verbatim
Randall Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD: New Works
2013
Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY: The Land of Bliss
2012
ACA Gallery, New York, NY: Different Voices, Unique Visions
2011
Famous Accountants, Brooklyn, NY: Obsession: The Book of Revelation from the Koran; an installation
Select Group Shows
2023
KinoSaito, Verplanck, NY: Art Benefit
Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA: Axis Mundi
Monument, Kingston, NY
2022
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY: The Material, the Thing
Webber Gallery, College of Central Florida, Ocala, FL: Next Text
Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, NY: MAGIC
2021
Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI: To the Letter: Text In Art
Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY: One Thing Leads to Another
Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY: Time Lapse
Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT: Embody
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY: Summer Reading
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA: She Says: Women, Words, and Power
2020
Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA: 35: Thirty-Five Artists for Thirty-Five Years
Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA: Art of the Book
2019
C24 Gallery, New York, NY: Word Up
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY: Walt Whitman’s Words: Inspiring Artists Today
Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX: Sacred Scripts: 1000 Years of Religious Texts
Green Door Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Refuge
A.I.R. Gallery, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY: Make Make Make: Repetition and Accumulation
Doug Adams Gallery, Berkeley, CA: Group Show
Laundromat, Miami, FL: To the Letter
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY: Works On Paper
2018
McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY: Summer Show
Woskob Gallery, Penn State University, State College, PA: Summer Reading
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY: Text Me
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY: Contemplation and Practice
RAW (Real Art Ways), Hartford, CT: Abductions and Reconstructions
2017
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH: Deep Cuts: Contemporary Paper Cutting
Gutstein Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA: Take Note
Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID: Contemplative Practice
Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY: Alien Nation
Hudson Valley Contemporary Center for Art, Peekskill, NY: Between I & Thou
2016
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art: This Is Not A Book
White Noise Gallery, Rome Italy: Any Given Book
Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY: Tower of Babel
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA: Bibliotechaphilia
CODA Museum, Netherlands: CODA Paper Art
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY: Reconfigured
Hazan Projects, New York, NY: Text Me
Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY: Duets
Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley, CA: The Art of the Book
2014
Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR: State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now
Scream, London, UK: Telling Tales
Salisbury University Gallery, Salisbury, MD: TXTED
Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID: Filtered
BBAC, Birmingham, MI: Altered Books
Town Hall Gallery, Boroondara, Australia: Re-Writing the Image
2013
Manresa Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Dialoguing with Sacred Texts
Towson University, Towson, MD: And the Word Is
Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ: Dialogic
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA: Dialoguing with Sacred Texts
Blanc Gallery, Boston, MA
Design Matters, Los Angeles, CA: Wordplay
2012
Artifact, New York, NY: Aftermath
Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY: Text
BRIC Contemporary Art, New York, NY: Mystics: A Blessed Rage for Order
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY: Contemplations and Conjectures
2011
Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL: People Don’t Like to Read Art
Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY: AIM Biennial
ACA Gallery, New York, NY: Fragments
Projective City, Paris, France: If Lightning Fell On Low Places
2010
Famous Accountants, Brooklyn, NY: Tunneling
Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Science Fiction
2009
NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY: Bushwick Biennial
Middlesex College, Edison, NJ: Multiply
Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY: Clamoring to Become Visible
Art Fairs
2016
Volta, New York, NY: Solo booth with Studio 10
San Francisco Art Market, San Francisco, CA: with Seager Gray Gallery
2015
Art on Paper, New York, NY: Solo booth with Randall Scott Projects
San Francisco Art Market, San Francisco, CA: with Seager Gray Gallery
2014
Volta, New York, NY: Solo booth with Studio 10
Collections
Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library, Yale University
Nouf Al-Saud of the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia
Christopher Rothko, New York, NY
Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR
Lawrence Greenberg, Brooklyn, NY
Robert Mailer Anderson and Nicola Miner, San Francisco, CA
Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA