ABOUT
Lee Hunter is a visual artist focused on the human relationship to nature; or how humans think about nature. Since 2015, they have been working on a durational worlding project called Cosmogenesis that includes photos, videos, sculptures, textiles, found objects, and writing. Hunter is interested in how people know what they know and learning about how beliefs systems are formed.
Hunter’s work has been exhibited at Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY; Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY; John Michael Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin; The Luminary, St. Louis, Missouri; Vox Populi, Pennsylvania; Berkeley Art Center, California; and Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Florida. They have been an artist in residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE; Palazzo Monti, Italy; Illinois State University, Bloomington, IL; ACRE, Wisconsin; and I-Park Foundation, Connecticut; and Vermont Studio Center, Vermont. Hunter earned a BS in Arts & Letters from Portland State University and an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. Hunter lives and works in Champaign, IL.
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