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://www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/candace-hunter-the-alien-nations-and-sovereign-states-of-octavia-e-butler

https://art.newcity.com/2023/11/07/the-future-is-breath-candace-hunter-delivers-portals-to-change-at-the-hyde-park-art-center/

https://www.wbez.org/the-rundown-chicago-news-podcast/2023/12/01/the-rundown-candace-hunter-takes-you-inside-the-sci-fi-worlds-of-octavia-butler

https://thevisualist.org/2023/11/candace-hunter-the-alien-nations-and-sovereign-states-of-octavia-e-butler/

https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/candace-hunter-hyde-park-art-center/

https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/october-2023/40-great-things-to-do-this-fall/explore-new-worlds-in-a-sci-fi-inspired-art-exhibition/

https://pkeenan1.medium.com/the-alien-nations-and-sovereign-states-of-octavia-e-butler-324fe4c4c4bb

https://www.hpherald.com/evening_digest/flight-of-butterflies-lands-in-local-natural-areas/article_f6aebe5c-4b9e-11ef-96a4-13d63eb58c69.html

https://huntington.org/verso/seeing-it

https://www.everand.com/podcast/653239023/Ep-101-Candace-Hunter