Shawn
Hill
Instructor in
Liberal Arts, Montserrat College of Art.
Art History Survey 2, Fall 2005
Art Since 1945, Spring 2004--Fall 2006.
Art History Survey 1, Fall 2003, Fall
2006
History of Photography, Spring 2006
Guest
Lecturer,
Art Institute of Boston, “Criticism and Theory,” Spring 2002.
Guest Critic,
Massachusetts College of Art, Senior Review Boards, Spring 2001.
Head Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Art History/Tufts University
Art, Ritual and Culture (Survey 1),
Fall 1999.
Art, Politics and Culture (Survey 2),
Spring 2000.
Curator: Shawn
Hill Selects: The Place, The Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery,
October 2005.
Juror: FCC Artists Fellowships in
Visual Art, Somerville Arts Council, 2003.
Curator: “Dwellings,” a selection of
mid-century American photographs from the Tufts Permanent Collection, March
2000.
Co-Juror: “Artifact:
Past, Present, Future,” an exhibit investigating the Millennium, Arlington
Center for the Arts, January 2000.
Juror: “Windows
Art Project/Installations” ArtBeat Summer Arts Festival, Somerville Arts
Council, Spring 1998.
Co-Curator: “Lifting
the Veil: Remembering the Burning of the Ursuline Convent,” Somerville Museum,
April-June 1997.
Studio
Assistant
to American artist Al Held, Summer 1988.
Office Assistant to Professor John C. Fout, Prof. of
German History, Bard College, 1987-88. Compiled
and proofread academic articles for editor of an historical newsletter and two
journals.
“Interacting
with the Press,” Arts & the Media
Conference, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 2004.
“How
to Get Your Visual Art Noticed,” Arts
& the Media Conference, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 2002.
“The
Media and Avant-garde Art,” Outwrite
Conference, Boston, 1993.
“Freelance
Writing from Within a Subculture,” Annual
Conference, National Writers Union, Cambridge, MA 1992.
Curatorial
Statements:
“Shape-Shifting:
Paintings by Adria Arch, Sculpture by Debra Giller,” Gibbs Gallery, Arlington
Center for the Arts, March 2002.
“Exploring
the Underneath: Peter Brooke’s Unseen Vistas,” Gallery NAGA, Nov. 2001.
Contributing
Interviewer: “Creating Eden:
A Portrait of an American City through its Gardens,” a project in Oral History sponsored
by the Somerville Arts Council, Spring/Summer 1999.
Arts Writer: Art New England
(2000-Present)
artsMEDIA
(1997-Present)
Bay Windows (1990-2004)
SELECTED
RECENT REVIEWS
“2003
ICA Artist Prize: Douglas Weathersby,” Spotlight Reviews, Feb/Mar 2004.
“Lalla
A. Essaydi at Howard Yezerski Gallery,” Regional Reviews, Feb/Mar 2004, p. 22.
“ICA/Boston;
Chen Zhen: Inner Body Landscapes,” Regional Reviews, Dec/Jan 2003.
“MFA/Boston:
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons,” Regional Reviews, Dec/Jan 2003.
“Robert Klein Gallery: Fiat Lux,” Regional Reviews, Oct/Nov 2002.
“Hallspace:
Band of Outsiders,” Regional Reviews June/July 2002, p. 33.
“Busch-Reisinger
Museum at Harvard University; Eat Art: Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth, Sonja Alhäuser,”
Regional Reviews, Feb/March 2002, p. 40.
“New England
School of Art and Design; Charles Giuliano: Stranger than Fiction,” Regional
Reviews, Dec/Jan 2002, p. 39.
“ICA/Boston:
Marlene Dumas, Rineke Dijkstra and Laylah Ali,” Regional Reviews, Aug/Sept
2001, .
“Elias Fine
Art; Charles Long: 100 LBS. of Clay,” Regional Reviews April/May 2001, p. 41.
“Gallery
NAGA; Robert Siegelman: Reflection,” Regional Reviews, June/July 2001.
“Howard
Yezerski Gallery: Nesting,” Regional Reviews, Feb/Mar 2001, p. 49.
artsMEDIA
“Rachel Perry
Welty: Daily Bread at Barbara Krakow Gallery,” Review, September 2004, p. 12.
“Minimal
Plus: Rose Olson at Kingston Gallery,” South End Focus, May 2004, p. 23.
“Realized in Wood:
Contemporary Prints from China at the Art Institute of Boston,” Gallery
Gallery, March 2003.
“Surrealism
and the Sacred, by Celia Rabinovitch,” Book Reviews, November 2002, p. 38.
“Dimitri
Cavander’s Calm Strength,” Review, October 2002, p. 30.
“Masako
Kamiya at Hallspace,” Gallery Gallery, Summer 2002.
“When Beauty
Meets the Real Beast (Buck$): Chick Clicks at the ICA,” Cover Story, February
2002.
“Thriving on
Abundance: Charles Giuliano at NESAD,” Review, October 2001.
“Wool and
Wizardry at Bromfield: Ravi Jain and Amy Ross,” Review, June 2001.
“Digital
Delights: Hudson, Wheeler, Kaliontzis,” Review, April 2001.
“Transcending
Function: Lino Tagliapietra and Friends,” Review, March 2001, p. 16.
“The King of
Kewl: Matthew Barney’s ‘Cremaster Cycle,’ ” Vol. 21 no. 24, Section 2, 29 May
2003.
“That Old
Roman Camp: Marsden Hartley at the Wadsworth,” vol. 21 no. 17, Section 2, 10
Apr 2003.
“The Year in
Review – Visual Arts,” vol. 21 no. 3, 9 Jan 2003, p. 27.
“Her Way
Around a Saw: Taylor Davis 2001 ICA Artist PrizeWinner,” vol. 20 no. 37, 22 Aug
2002.
“Remembrances
of Exhibits Past: Beck, Earle, Risoli, Siegelman and others,” vol. 20 no. 28,
Section 3, 27 June 2002.
“Media Savvy:
Altoids® Curiously Strong Collection,” vol. 20 no. 14, Section 2, 21 Mar 2002.
“Looking
Good: Applause for the MFA,” vol. 19 no. 50, Section 3, 29 November 2001.
“An
Invitation to Meditation: David Hilliard’s photographs,” vol. 19 no. 44, 18 Oct
2001.
“Monkey
Business: Laura Owens at the Gardner,” vol. 19 no. 36, 23 Aug. 2001.
“Leading the
Chorus of Nays: Rare exhibit of work by Edvard Munch,” vol. 19 no. 16, Section
3, 5 April 2001.
“Misfits ‘R’ Us:
Michael Bronski Says Gays Will Never Fit In,” Alex Magazine vol. 1 no.
4, 1999.
“Reading the
Enemy: Paintings by Michael McConnell,” Art & Understanding Magazine
no. 21, June 1996, pg. 18.
“Reflections
of Society and Self in the 90s,” Art & Understanding Magazine no.
21, Culture, June 1996, pg. 50.
“The Culture
of AIDS,” Art & Understanding Magazine 20, vol. 5 no. 2 (1996).
Assorted
regional gallery and museum exhibition reviews for The TAB Community Newspapers (1996-98).
“Hungary
Eyes: Photography Fall Preview” The Boston Phoenix, Supplement, 16 Sep
1994.
“Alternate
Visions: Gay and Lesbian Artists Can Find it Hard,” The Boston Phoenix,
Supplement, Nov 1993.
“Transitions,” Soundtrax Studio,
Raleigh, NC, 1994
“Urban Pastoral,” Harvard Neighbors
Gallery, 1992
“Cities and Victims,” Oasis Gallery,
1991
“Location,” Olin Gallery, Bard College,
1988
“Faculty Exhibition,” Montserrat
College of Art Gallery, Spring 2004.
“ARTcetera,” Boston Center for the
Arts, 2002
“Body Conscious: Figure & Gesture
in Photography & Printmaking,” Arlington Center for the Arts, 2001
“Paper Prayers 8,” Howard Yezerski
Gallery, 1996
“Pet Paintings,” Bernard Toale Gallery,
1996
“Paper Prayers 7: Imagining Angels,”
Yezerski Gallery, 1995
“South End Open Studios,” 1995
“A Gallery For the Rest of Us,” Café
Bella Vita, 1994
“US Art,” San Francisco Art Exposition,
1993
“New Artists,” Foster Goldstrom
Gallery, New York, 1993
“Gifts of Art,” Boston Center for the
Arts, 1991
“Artists and Their Environment,” BVAU
Gallery, 1990
“The Censorship Show,” BVAU Gallery,
1990
“The Flag Show,” Alchemie Gallery, 1989
“Summer Show,” Woodstock Artist’s
Association, 1988
1989-present:
Library Assistant IV, Harvard College Library, Widener Cataloging
Department. Clerical and filing duties, web-page design, processing of patron
requests for uncataloged books, daily maintenance of a collection of c.100,000
of new books.
1986-1988: Work/study
Assistant at Bard College Library. Shelving
and shelf-reading, card catalog maintenance.
1998-2000: MA in the History of Art, Tufts University,
Medford, Massachusetts; 3.87 GPA
1989-98: Course
work at Harvard University Extension School in French, French Literature and
Art History; 3.46 GPA
1986-88:
BA in Studio Art, Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; 3.4 GPA
1983-85: Undergraduate work at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro; 3.9 GPA
1981: Governor’s School of North
Carolina – West Campus
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