Candace Hill-Montgomery

Candace Hill-Montgomery (born February 9, 1945) is an American writer and artist. She works in photography, mixed-media collage, and watercolors.[1][2] She was born and raised in Queens, New York City. She attended Fordham University (B.A., 1977) and Hunter College (M.A., 1981). While an undergraduate, in 1979, Hill-Montgomery was artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and exhibited her work at Artists Space.[3] She was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1981,[4] and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985.[5] In the 1980s, she exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the New Museum, Franklin Furnace, Fashion Moda, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 1985, Hill-Montgomery curated a solo exhibition of Lorna Simpson's work with Lucy R. Lippard titled Working Women/Working Artists/Working Together.[6] She participated in the "Race and Representation" exhibition at the Hunter College Art Gallery in 1987. She has published essays in the Woman's Art Journal.[7] Her work is now in the New Digital Archive Museum.[8]

References

1. Wolff, Theodore F. (August 14, 1980). "Black Art Thrives at Harlem's Studio Museum". Christian Science Monitor.
2. "Candace Hill-Montgomery". Thomas J. Watson Archive.
3. "Candace Montgomery: A Different Kind of Political | The East Hampton Star". www.easthamptonstar.com. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
4. "Annual Report 1981" (PDF). National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
5. "Candace Hill-Montgomery". John C. Guggenheim Foundation.
6. "10 Artists Remember Their First Exhibition | artnet News". artnet News. 2016-08-11. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
7. Lippard, Lucy R., and Candace Hill-Montgomery. (1982). "Working Women/Working Artists/Working Together". Woman's Art Journal. 3: 19–20.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
8. "Currents: Candace Hill-Montgomery". New Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-03-12.