Candace Hunter, (USA)
chleeart@gmail.com | 773-896-5840 (text only)
Exhibitions
Select Solo
2025 of Girls and Men, 4th Presbyterian Church, Chicago
2023/4 The Alien-Nations and Sovereign States of Octavia E Butler, Hyde Park Art Center
2023 Brown Limbed Girls, Narrow Bridge Inaugural Exhibition, Chicago, IL
2021 Brown Limbed Girls, Thelma Harris Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 So Be It. See To It. , Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, MA
2017 Black Beauties: Serving It Up for More Than Three Hundred Years, Faie Gallery, Chicago IL
2016 Hooded Truths, Southside Community Art Center, Chicago, IL
2014 Dust in Their Veins, DuSable Museum of African American History
Select Juried & Invitational
2025 Litany, Blanc Gallery, Chicago
2025 Beyond Frames, South Side Community Art Center, Chicago
2025 Giving Her, Her Flowers, Navy Pier, Chicago
2025 Shared Vision: he Collection of CCH Pounder-Kone, African American Museum of Philadelphia
2024 Remembering Ghosts, The U of C’s Arts Incubator, Chicago, IL
2024 ReSource: Art and Resourcefulness in Black Chicago, SSCAC, Chicago, IL
2024 Through a BIPOC Lens: Decolonizing Feminism, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024 More Beautiful, More Terrible, Co-Prosperity Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024 Black Creativity, Museum of Science and Industry
2023 Water, 6018N Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 Black Creativity, Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago IL {Award Winner)
2023 Freedom’s Muse, Logan Center, Chicago, IL
2022 Missing Narratives, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT
2022 Sapphire & Crystals’ Forward, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
2019 Change Agents: Midwest Women Eco Artists, Heuser Gallery, Bradley University
2019 Floating Museum, Faheem Majeed curator
2019 Women, Home, … Memory, curator, Rita Koehler, South Bend Civic Center
2018 Iconic: Black Panther, Chicago, Stony Island Arts Bank
2017 Altar Call, Rootwork Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Here + Now, curator, Heather Duffy, UICA Grand Rapids, MI
Residencies
2024 APL Artist in Residence, Chicago
2023/4 Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. ILEXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL
2023 Little Black Pearl Design Center, Chicago, IL
2022 Cuttyhunk Artists Residency, Cuttyhunk Island, MA
2020 Yale University in conjunction with Kym Moore Theatricals, New Haven, CT
Fairs
2025 EXPO Chicago, Blanc Gallery
2024 Venice Biennale, European Cultural Centre, Personal Structures
2024 Northampton Fine Art Fair, Northampton, NY
2023/4 EXPO Chicago, Lusenhop Gallery
2023 SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair, Miami Florida
Honors / Awards
2022 Climate Changemakers, Elevate Award, Chicago, IL
2021 3 Arts Next Level Award, 3 Arts
2020 Helen and Tim Meier Family Foundation Award, Winnetka, IL
2016 3 Arts Awardee, Chicago. IL
Public Art/Work
2024 Flight of Butterflies, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, IL
2024 Got my MOJO Workin’, 50 ft mural depicting the Blues Women of Chicago, King Center, Chicago
2021 Covid Awareness Billboards, South and Southwest sides of Chicago, City of Chicago
2020 A Summer of Loss, mini-mural installations across the southside of Chicago and St. Paul, MN
Media
https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/candace-hunter-hyde-park-art-center/
https://pkeenan1.medium.com/the-alien-nations-and-sovereign-states-of-octavia-e-butler-324fe4c4c4bb
https://huntington.org/verso/seeing-it
https://www.everand.com/podcast/653239023/Ep-101-Candace-Hunter