Will
Hutnick
Bio
Will Hutnick
Will Hutnick (b. 1985) is an artist based in Sharon, CT. He received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 2011 and his B.A. from Providence College in 2007. Hutnick is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting, as well as a grant recipient from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation in 2017 and 2023, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2016. Solo exhibitions include: McDonough Museum of Art (Youngstown, OH), Geary Contemporary (Millerton, NY), Pamela Salisbury Gallery (Hudson, NY), Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY), Elijah Wheat Showroom (Newburgh, NY), Standard Space (Sharon, CT), Providence College Galleries (Providence, RI), One River School (Hartsdale, NY), The Java Project (Brooklyn, NY), and St. Thomas Aquinas College (Sparkill, NY). Selected group exhibitions include: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz, NY), High Noon (New York, NY), Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Hollis Taggart (Southport, CT), Geary Contemporary (Millerton, NY), 1969 Gallery (New York, NY), Heaven Gallery (Chicago, IL) and Collar Works (Troy, NY). Hutnick has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Interlude Artist Residency, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, Hewnoaks, Stove Works, and the Wassaic Project, as well as a curator-in-residence at Benaco Arte and Trestle Projects. He has curated numerous exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Trestle Projects, Pratt Institute, Wassaic Project, Troutbeck and Standard Space. His work has been featured in The New York Times, New American Paintings, and Hyperallergic, among others. From 2015-20, Hutnick was one of the Co-Directors of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn. He is currently the Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change.
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Artist's Statement
My work reimagines landscape through a queer, ecologically engaged lens. I create topographical relics that translate physical and sensory environments into layered, abstract compositions. Rooted in queer ecology, as well as ideas surrounding digital and mediated spaces, my paintings challenge binary worldviews and emphasize the interconnection of sexuality, land, and lived experience.
Using paint rollers, black paint, and raw canvas, I adapt printmaking processes to generate patterns that resemble glitches, Xeroxes, and stop-motion frames. My practice begins with rubbings from personal and found objects, such as milk crates from my late father’s car or the wooden walls of my studio in Sharon, Connecticut. These marks act as both residue and record. Recently, I’ve incorporated botanical materials - leaves, ferns, and flowers - as stencils, introducing overtly representational forms that timestamp specific moments and places.
Through this process, I investigate the poetics of fragmentation. What begins as a botanical or architectural impression often devolves into hazy forms: images on the edge of visibility. These speculative compositions offer alternate readings of landscape: constellations, memory maps, and queer futurities. In the layering of idiographic marks and textures, internal logics slowly unravel if you let them.