Education
Hutson’s highest academic credential is a High School Diploma
He took occasional courses at the
San Francisco Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA 1960-1961
Los Angeles Trade Technical College, Los Angeles, CA 1959
Los Angeles City College Los Angeles, CA 1958-1959
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1956-1957
Frank N. Ashley Apprentice 1961-1962
Professional Appointments
Jennie Brown Cook and Betsy Hess Cook Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, Franklin & Marshall College 2005-2022
Associate Art Professor, Franklin & Marshall College Lancaster, PA 1989-2010
Visiting Artist/Instructor, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 1989
Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 1984-1987
Adjunct Lecturer, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY 1979-1983
Graphic Arts Advisor, Audio Visual Research Division, The National Museum of Art, Lagos, Nigeria 1974-1976
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Homestead Texas State Galleries San Marcos, TX
2020 Bill Hutson: Selections from the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College, Governor’s Residence, Harrisburg, PA
2015 Ttrans)formations: Studies in Form and Composition by Bill Hutson The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
2001 Tactile Images: Paintings and Painted Objects by Bill Hutson The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
2002 Oba’s Room: Paintings and Painted Objects by Bill Hutson Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
1996 Image to Object: Paintings and Painted Objects by Bill Hutson Hub-Robeson Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
1991, 1978 The Cinque Gallery, New York, NY
1990 James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
1990 The Cone University Center Gallery, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC
1988 The California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1987–1988 The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1984 Onyx Art Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Bill Hutson Recent Paintings N’amdi Center for Contemporary Art Birmingham, MI
1982 Gallery 62, National Urban League, New York, NY
1979 Union Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
1971 Ori Olukun Cultural Center, Ile Ife, Nigeria
1966 Stedelijk Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
1965 Bolles Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1964 Galerie H. Krikhaar, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Collections
The Arco Collection. Philadelphia, PA
Boysmans-Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Brandywine Graphic Workshop. Philadelphia
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Columbus Museum of Art
Editions George Visat. Paris, France
James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore
Roberto Matta-Echaurren Collection
National Museum of Fine Arts. Havana, Cuba
National Museum of Southern Australia. Adelaide
Newark Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Peter Stuyvesant Collection
Petrucci Family Foundation Collection
The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College. Lancaster, PA
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Awards
1980 CAPS (Creative Artists Public Service Program) New York, NY
1974 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Washington, D.C.
1972 Cassandra Foundation Award Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Paris Noir, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
2021 Creating Community: Cinque Gallery Artists, The Art Students League, New York, NY
2020 The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection, Saint Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
2019 UnCommon Collections: Selections from Fifteen Collectors, The David C Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2019 New York-Centric, The Art Students League, New York, NY
2017 Constructing Identity, The Portland Museum, Portland, Oregon
2016 Beyond Borders: Bill Hutson & Friends, Mechanical Hall Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark
2015 Many Faces of Abstraction, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
2014 African American Artists and Abstraction, The National Fine Arts Museum, Havana, Cuba
2010 African American Abstract Masters, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA
2010 African American Abstract Masters, Wilmer Jennings Gallery, Kenkeleba House Gallery, New York, NY
2010 African American Abstract Masters, The Opalka Gallery at the Sage College, Albany, NY
2008 Something to Look Forward To, Hub-Robeson Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2008 Abstraction: Sam Gilliam, Bill Hutson and Howardena Pindell, Lana Woods Gallery, New York, NY
2007 African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Living with Art: The Alitash Kebede Collection, Bermuda National Museum, Hamilton, Bermuda
2006 Masterpieces of African American Art: An African American Perspective, M. Hanks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Driven to Abstraction: Works by Contemporary American Artists, New York State Museum, Albany, NY
2006 Locations: Recent Paintings by Bill Hutson and Padmini Mongia, Pfenninger Gallery Lancaster, PA
2002 No Greater Love Abstraction, Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Six American Masters, Sugar Hill Art Center, New York, NY
1994 A Stylistic Dualism: Representation and Abstraction in 20th Century African American Art, National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH
1994 Le Temps d’un Dessin: Selected American Drawings, Galerie de L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Lorient, France
1994 Contemporary African-American Artists: 1980-1994, The National Arts Club, New York, NY
1994 African American Abstraction in Printmaking, Firehouse Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1994 Spirit House (Collaboration with Willie Burch), Hallways Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
1994 Contemporary Culture and Documentary Art, Dallas, TX
1993 The Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1993 Over 100 Under 100, Gallery Onetwentyeight New York, NY
1993 Works from the Peg Alston Collection, Peg Alston Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Works from the Murphy Rabb Collection, Murphy Rabb, Inc., Chicago, IL
1992 African Americans & Europe:1960-1992, Galerie D’Art Noir Contemporain, Paris, France
1992 Paris Connections: African American Artists in Paris, Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991-1992 Domenikos Theotokopoulos: A Dialogue, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, NY
1991-1992 Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
1991 The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting:1945-1975, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
1989-1990 Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Descent, The Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
1989-1990 African American Contemporary Art, Museo Civico D’art Contemporanea Di Gibellina, Palmero, Italy
1987-1988 The Art of Black America in Japan, Japan International Cultural Exchange Association, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
1986 Beyond 1984: Contemporary Perspectives on American Art, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1986 Morris B.Belknap Jr. Gallery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
1985 Trisolini Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH
1985 New Works University Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1985 Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
1985 Since the Harlem Renaissance: Fifty Years of Afro-American Art, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
1984 Contemporary Perspectives: 1984, The Center Gallery of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
1984 Art Against Apartheid, Louis Abrons Arts for Living Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
1984 Hanging Loose, The Port Authority of New York, New York, NY
1984 Quartet Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Seven American Artists, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1983 Celebrating Contemporary American Black Artists, The Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY
1981 The Working Process, New York Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY
1981 An Exhibition of Ten Artists, Just Above Midtown Downtown, New York, NY
1980 The 1970’s: Prints and Drawings by Afro-Americans, The Museum of The National Center of Afro–American Artists, Boston, MA
1980 Retour Aux Sources: Une Exposition En Afrique D’Artistes Afro-Americans, Galerie D’Art Mitkal. Abidjan, Ivory Coast, West Africa
1979 Selections from the Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Kultureel Sentrum, Tilburg, Netherlands
1977 Contemporary Black Art: A Selected Sampling, Florida International University, Miami, FL
1972-1974 Contemporary African and Africa American Art, Gong Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
1971 Selections from the Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Muzej Savremene umetnosti, Belgrade, former Yugoslavia
1971 Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, former Yugoslavia
1971 European and American Art, Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milano, Italy
1970 Afro-American Artists Abroad, University of Texas Museum, Austin, TX
1969 Trois Noirs Americains, American Artists and Students Center, Paris, France
1968 Selections from the Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Dominikenska Cerkev. Maastricht, Netherlands
1966 The TransAtlantics, U.S.I.S. Gallery, London, England
1963-1965 Contemporary American Art, Fred Maxwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1962 10th Annual Drawing, Print & Sculpture Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA