BIO
John Hitchcock was born in Lawton, Oklahoma and grew up in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma. He is an Artist and Associate Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he teaches screenprinting, relief cut, digital mixed media prints, and installation art. He earned his MFA in printmaking and photography at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas and received his BFA from Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma.
EXHIBITIONS
Kumu Art Museum of Estonia, Tallin, Estonia; Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden; London Print Studio, London, England; Waldkunstpfad / Forestal-Art-Path, Darmstadt, Germany; South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa; Brasilia Art Museum, Brasilia, Brazil; Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago, Chile; Museum of Art and Design, New York.
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
The American Photography Institute, National Graduate Seminar Fellowship at New York University, Tisch School of Arts; Jerome Foundation grant, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and the Vilas Associate Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
John Hitchcock was born in Lawton, Oklahoma and grew up in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma. He is an Artist and Associate Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he teaches screenprinting, relief cut, digital mixed media prints, and installation art. He earned his MFA in printmaking and photography at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas and received his BFA from Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma.
EXHIBITIONS
Kumu Art Museum of Estonia, Tallin, Estonia; Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden; London Print Studio, London, England; Waldkunstpfad / Forestal-Art-Path, Darmstadt, Germany; South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa; Brasilia Art Museum, Brasilia, Brazil; Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago, Chile; Museum of Art and Design, New York.
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
The American Photography Institute, National Graduate Seminar Fellowship at New York University, Tisch School of Arts; Jerome Foundation grant, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and the Vilas Associate Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
John Hitchcock
EXHIBITIONS
Expansion
16.02.2008 to 08.03.2008
From February 16th to March 8th, John Hitchcock was in Proyecto´ace as an artist in residence. During his residency Hitchcock mounted the installation titled Expansión in the Políglota Room(on view March -April, 2008) and presented a print action titled Objetivos Moviles/Moving Targets/ Transporte Cultural on the train system between Proyecto’ace to the Centro de Producción y Edición Gráfica de Buenos Aires (Litho Workshop) in Saénz Peña, Province of Buenos Aires.
ABOUT EXPANSION:
Expansion is a large-scale variable size screenprinted installation, where the hand printed repeat patterns act as a metaphor for change, cycles, endurance, collaboration, and intent. The installation consists of mythological hybrid creatures (buffalo, wolf, boar, deer, moose) and military weaponry (tanks and helicopters) based on his childhood memories and stories of growing up in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma next to Ft Sill field artillery military base. On one level, the repetitive X marks comments on the US government’s regional, national and international policies on human beings to the forcible relocation and removal of people from one location to another. On another level, Expansión is a statement about current events such as the US invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, the major conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis, and the recent announcement by the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that “An estimated 655,000 Iraqis have died since 2003". Finally, Hitchcock explores notions of good, evil, death, and life cycles. His depictions of beasts, animals, and machines act as a metaphors for human behavior and cycles of violence. His artwork is a response to intrusive behaviour by humans towards nature and other humans.
