ruth hiller

Boulder, CO 80304

ruth@ruthhiller.com


Exhibitions

solo exhibitions

2013  

Soft Geometry- Ruth Hiller, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2011

Up Close- Ruth Hiller, Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery, Salem, MA

2010       

Open Studio- Ruth Hiller, Boulder Public Library, Boulder, Co

2009       

RF Paints Artist of the month, RF Paints Website, Kingston, NY


group exhibitions

2018

Geometry, Fred Giampietro, New Haven, CT

2017

The Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ

Chromatopia, St Luke Arts, Melbourne, Australia

2016
Fiction v2 (With only Daylight Between Us) curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones at Corridor Dayton, OH

Indian Summer, DM Contemporary, New York, NY

Colorado Women in Abstraction, curated by Michael Paglia, MSU Center for Visual Arts, Denver CO  

New Work- Ruth Hiller, Fred Giampietro,New Haven, CT

Work on Paper- Ruth Hiller and Yolanda Sanchez, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY

Raw, Scott Heidmann Art Salon, Kansas City, MO

Going Big, Central Booking, New York, NY

2015

Group Show, Concepts, Southampton, NY

Maximal-Minimal, Truro Center For the Arts, Truro, MA

Burst, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ

Organic- Geometric-Pattern, Space Gallery, Denver, CO

Tomboy, Odetta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Organic to Geometric, Endicott College, Beverly MA

Postcards from the Edge, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY

A Few Conversations About Color, curated by Joanne Mattera, dm contemporary, New York, NY

2014       

The Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ

21 and Counting, The Painting Center, New York, NY

Best of 2014, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY        

Subliminal, curated by Dan Addington, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro,MA

Without Boundary, curated by Christine Pfister, School 33 Center for the Arts,Baltimore, MD

2013       

Red, juried by Marian Peck, A Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2012      

Improbable Topographies, curated by Joanne Mattera, Rice Pollak Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Affordable but Priceless, Conrad Wilde Gallery, AAF, Los Angeles, CA

2011       

Innovations: Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel, Miami, FL

Summer Group Show, Winston Wächter Fine Arts, New York, NY

6th Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ

Summer Group Show, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY    

Luminous Layers, Lakewood Center for the Arts, Lake Oswego, OR

Flow and Control, 301 Gallery, Salem, MA

2009       

White Space, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO

Encaustic Works 09, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY     

4th Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2008

Organic Abstraction, Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO

2005       

Lure, Drawn to the Promise of Pleasure, Rule Modern, Denver, CO


education

2010       

Advance Studio Critique with FredTomaselli and Tom Burckhardt, Snowmass CO

2009       

Montserrat Encaustic Conference, Beverly, MA   

1986       

BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA


publications

2015

Artists Repeat Themselves in Pattern, an Elegant Group Show at Space Gallery, by Michael Paglia, Westword

2013

Ruth Hiller, The Jealous Curator, www.thejealouscurator.com

2012

Encaustic Works 2012, juried exhibitionin print published by R & F Handmade Paints, juried by Joanne Mattera

2011

Get Lost! Victims and Victors of the Art Fair Grid, by David Cohen, Art Critical

Ruth Hiller by Caroline Williamson, Design-milk.com

Fair Play: Some Paintings, by Joanne Mattera, Joanne Mattera blogspot,

Ruth Hiller, New American Paintings No 96 West Issue

Transforming the Cosmic into Encaustic. McGregor, Amanda. A Shore Thing.

2010

Q & A with Ruth Hiller & GalleryDirector Laura Moriarty. Interview by Laura Moriarty. R&F Handmade Paints. 

2009

Encaustic Works 09, Castle Gallery Exhibition Catalog

Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Exhibition Catalog

2005 Naropa Extended Studies catalog, featured cover artist

2004 Naropa Extended Studies catalog, featured cover artist


awards and residencies

2014

Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts residency, New Berlin, NY

2011

Winner of Portfolio spread in R&F Handmade Paints upcoming book Encaustic Works 2012,

juried by Joann Mattera

2010

Winner of Director’s choice for solo show at Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery, Beverly, MA

professional experience

1990       

Studio Assistant, Ron Gorchov, painter,New York, NY