CURRENT POSITION

 
 

Professor of Digital Arts

 

University of Wisconsin Madison

     
 

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

 
 

Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA

 

www.platformgallery.com

     
 

EDUCATION

 
 

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

 

1997

 

M.F.A. Studio Art

University of Humberside, Hull, United Kingdom

 

1989

 

M.A. Architecture

Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

 

1983

 

B.A. Architecture

         
 

SELECTED 1, 2 & 3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS

 
 

2012

 

Unnatural Formations
(With Simen Johan & Lydia Anne McCarthy)

 

Scandinavia House Gallery, New York City, NY

2009

 

Rapture of the Deep

 

Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA

2008

 

The Ends of the Earth

 

Fivepoints Arthouse, San Francisco, CA

2007

 

The Beautiful Lie

 

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

2006

 

King Wave

 

Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA

2005

 

Always

 

Haus Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2002

 

Inconsolable

 

Cherry de Los Reyes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001

 

Yours is the Earth

 

Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN

1997

 

Field Trip

 

U.S.C. M.F.A. Thesis Show, Los Angeles

1996

 

Objects

 

Helen Lyndhurst Gallery, U.S.C., Los Angeles

         
 

SELECTED INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 
 

2013

 

Septentrion: Exploring the Arctic Circle

 

Union Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2012

 

Machine Wilderness

 

516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM

2012

 

Compendium 2012

 

Chazen Museum, Madison, WI

2011

 

Experimental Video & Performance Series

 

University of Wisconsin Union

2011

 

Dreams & Illusions

 

Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA

2011

 

Call Back

 

Vermont Studio Center

2010

 

Aqua Art Miami

 

Art | Basel | Miami, Miami Beach, FL

2010

 

Seven Easy Steps: Artistic Masterpieces

 

Horton Gallery, New York City, NY

2010

 

New Media Exhibition

 

Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

2009

 

The There

 

Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA

2009

 

Image 2.0

 

University College, Falmouth, UK

2009

 

Art versus Starlight Video Art Series

 

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

2009

 

Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival

 

Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

2009

 

Always (4 Channel)

 

4Culture Arts Center, Seattle, WA

2009

 

Subjective Nature

 

University Gallery, UW La Crosse, WI

2008

 

Platform Portfolio 2 (print portfolio)

 

Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA

2008

 

Visible Means: Observations of Queer Experience

 

Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN

2008

 

One Life

 

Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society Chamber Music Festival
Overture Center, Madison WI

2008

 

2008 Art Department Faculty Exhibition

 

Chazen Museum, Madison, WI

2007

 

Aqua Art Miami

 

Art | Basel | Miami, Miami Beach, FL

2007

 

I Heart America and America Hearts Me

 

Old Gold Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

2007

 

Spectrum: WABVA Fellows Show

 

Fairfield Center for Contemporary Art, Sturgeon Bay, WI

2007

 

Spectrum: WABVA Fellows Show

 

Watrous Gallery, Madison, WI

2006

 

New Art from the Mississippi River Valley

 

The Chicago Athenaeum, Galena, IL

2006

 

Water Fall

 

Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH

2006

 

Aqua Art Miami

 

Art | Basel | Miami, Miami Beach, FL

2006

 

Affair at the Jupiter Hotel

 

Portland, OR

2006

 

Art LA

 

Los Angeles, CA

2005

 

Aqua Art Miami

 

Art | Basel | Miami, Miami Beach, FL

2005

 

Dark States

 

Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA

2005

 

Infusion

 

Phatspace Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2005

 

New-Age-Old

 

Sandpoint Gallery, University of Washington, WA

2004

 

Film Short Show

 

SOO Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN

2004

 

American Art

 

Palazzo Sclafani - Palermo, Italy

2003

 

The Big Deal

 

SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003

 

Token Male

 

SOO Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN

2002

 

Water

 

The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL

2000

 

All System Go

 

Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN

1999

 

Strange Air

 

Strange Air Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

         
 

SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS

 
 

2013

 

Lumen Prize Exhibition

 

FQ Projects, Shanghai

2013

 

Lumen Prize Exhibition

 

Plum Blossoms Art Gallery, Hong Kong

2013

 

Lumen Prize Exhibition

 

Robert's Books, Riga, Latvia

2013

 

Lumen Prize Exhibition

 

Gallery 27, Cork St., London

2011

 

Currents 2012 New Media Festival

 

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, NM

2011

 

Currents 2011 New Media Festival

 

El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, NM

2004

 

Cyberdeco 04 Digital Media Festival

 

Perth, Australia

2004

 

Snap to Grid

 

Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2002

 

Five Minutes of Fame

 

Walker Art Center, mnartists.org (On line streaming video exhibition)

2002

 

Interrogating Diversity

 

Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2000

 

Inconsolable

 

Minnesota Electronic Theatre, (SIGGRAPH)

2000

 

Inconsolable Installation

 

Fourth International Conference on Information Visualisation, IV 2000, London, UK

1997

 

Select

 

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

1997

 

Whatever

 

Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

 

 

 

 

 

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

 
 

David Blanke

 

Austin, TX

Lisa Stuart

 

Greenwich, CT

Juliet Bakker

 

Greenwich, CT

Lauren Kelley

 

Stamford, CT

Matthew Hoffman

 

Washington, DC

Paul Owen

 

Madison, WI

Mimi Santry

 

New York, NY

Vinson & Elkins LLP

 

Austin, TX

Lyn & Gerald Grinstein

 

Atlanta, GA

Caroline Stafford Morris

 

Eugene, OR

Paul Diaz

 

Coral Gables, FL

Javier Guerra

 

New York, NY

Jane Scott

 

Austin, TX

Reid MacDonald

 

Minneapolis, MN

Marty & Peggy Friedman

 

Chicago, IL

Guido & Mariangela Sala

 

Como, Italy

Sefiraz Ergun

 

Urgur, Turkey

Dr. & Mrs. David Sumner

 

Lafayette, CA

 

 

 

 

REVIEWS

 
 

Litell, Richard J.

 

Unnatural Formations

 

Scandinavian Review, Spring 2012

Arts Editor

 

The Beautiful Lie at MMoCA

 

The Onion, VA Club, Jan. 31st 2008

Smith, Jennifer

 

Don't Believe Your Eyes

 

Isthmus, Jan. 4th 2008

Vaughn, Katie

 

A Natural Approach

 

Madison Magazine, Jan. 2008

Nance, Sarah

 

Multimedia Masterpiece

 

MadisonMagazine.com, Dec. 2007

Topper, Scott

 

Hilyard Gets Creative With His Camera

 

Wisconsin State Journal, Dec. 29th 2007

Stockinger, Jacob

 

Beautiful Lie a Powerful Show

 

The Capital Times, Nov. 29th 2007

Wagner, James

 

Dark States

 

Platform Gallery & www.jameswagner.com, Nov. 2005

Vayda, Priscilla

 

Stephen Hilyard: Beyond the Traditional

 

Pasadena Star News, Feb. 2005

Fallon, Michael

 

Token Male

 

Mnartists.org, Sept. 2003

Albertini, Rosanna

 

Inconsolable

 

Art Press (Paris), March 2003

Klefstad, Ann

 

Yours is the Earth

 

New Art Examiner, Jan./Feb. 2002

Klefstad, Ann

 

Hilyard communicates very well with a select few

 

Duluth News Tribune, Sept. 30th, 2001

Arts Editor

 

Artist Profile: Stephen Hilyard

 

Duluth News Tribune, Sept. 16th, 2001

Jenkins, Steven

 

Que Sera Sera

 

Bay Area Reporter, Feb. 27th, 1997

 

 

 

 

 

 

CATALOGS

 
 

Multiple authors

 

Machine Wilderness

 

516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM

Beal, Suzanne

 

Stephen Hilyard: King Wave

 

Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA

 

 

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 
 

White Owls - Art in LA 1994 - 2011

 

Including an essay on Inconsolable.
Rosanna Albertini, Dec. 2011

Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels

 

Artwork featured in a widely used textbook
on color photography (5th edition).
Robert Hirsch, Focal Press, Feb. 2011

The Best of 3D Graphics

 

Artwork featured in a show case of
contemporary 3D Digital artists.
Rockport Press, Jan. 2003

The Anxious Maker

 

Critical theory article.
Artweek Magazine, Jan. 1998

     
 

HONORS & AWARDS

 
 

2012

 

Lumen Prize

 

International award for digital arts: 3rd Place

 

 

 

 

 

 

SELECTED GRANTS

 
 

2012

 

American Scandinavian Foundation

 

Artist Fellowship

2011

 

The Huntington Library

 

San Andreas Fellowship

2007

 

Harpo Foundation

 

Support for exhibition The Beautiful Lie

2007

 

American Scandinavian Foundation

 

Artist Fellowship

2006

 

Wisconsin Arts Board

 

Artist Fellowship

2005

 

Vermont Studio Center

 

Full Fellowship

2003

 

McKnight Foundation

 

International Travel Award

2002

 

MInnesota State Arts Board

 

Career Opportunity Grant

2001

 

McKnight Foundation

 

McKnight Summer Fellow

1996-97

 

U.S.C. School of Fine Art

 

Graduate Full Tuition Scholarship

 

 

 

 

 

 

EMPLOYMENT

 
 

2004 - present

 

Professor of Digital Arts

 

University of Wisconsin Madison

1999 - 2004

 

Assistant Professor, Sculpture and 3D Digital Media

 

University of Minnesota Duluth

1998 - 1999

 

Design Engineer, projects including Claes Oldenburg, Ellsworth Kelly,Jeff Koons, Disney & Universal Studios

 

Peter Carlson & Co., Los Angeles, CA

1997 - 1998

 

Fabrication of large scale polished stainless steel castings for Jeff Koons’ “Celebration” body of work

 

Peter Carlson & Co., Los Angeles, CA

1997

 

Guest Speaker, Sculpture

 

Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA

1996 - 1997

 

Teaching Assistant to John Mason & Anne Page, Ceramics and Sculpture

 

U.S.C., Los Angeles, CA

1996

 

Teaching assistant to Luciano Perna, Sculpture

 

California State Summer School for the Arts

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 
 

2012

 

The Arctic Circle Residency, Spitsbergen Islands

2006

 

Visiting Artist: University of Western Washington

2006

 

Visiting Artist: University of California Los Angeles

2006

 

Visiting Artist: Wellesley College

2005

 

Vermont Studio Center Residency

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

 
 

2011

 

Presenter: The New Landscape

 

Wisconsin Science Festival

2011

 

Presenter: Digital Simulations in the Arts

 

Research Computing Symposium
Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery

2010

 

Presenter: The "Lie" of the Image, Digital Reality and Truth

 

American Society of
Architectural Illustrators

2008

 

Panelist: Culture, Technology & Subjectivity

 

University of Wisconsin Madison
Visualizing Science

2006

 

Chair: Visualizing Science Work Group

 

University of Wisconsin Madison
Visual Culture Transconference

 

 

 

 

 

 

OTHER

 
 

Lived and traveled in Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya

 

1986 - 1987

Traveled overland through Africa from London to Nairobi

 

Jan. - July 1985

Expedition Artist: British Schools Exploring Society expedition to the Lyngen Alps, Arctic Norway. Drawings and paintings exhibited at the Royal Geographical Society, London, UK

 

June - Aug. 1979