John Hull Bio
B O R N I N N E W H A V E N , C T , 1 9 5 2
E D U C A T I O N
1981 MFA University of Illinois
1977 BA Yale University
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
2014 Simmons Gallagher Gallery, Cody, WY
Moberg/Chicago, Chicago, IL
Moberg/Des Moines, Des Moines, IA
2013 Ucross Gallery, Ucross, WY
Welch School Galleries, Georgia State, Atlanta, GA
2010 Corrigan Gallery, Charleston, SC
Sumter County Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC
2008 Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2007 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 Wichita Art Museum
2005 Plus Gallery, Devner, LA
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
Ucross Gallery, Clearmont, WY
2004 E.J. Belloocq Gallery, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
2003 Tatistcheff & Co. Inc., New York, NY
Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY
2002 Ron Judish Fine Arts, Denver, CO
2001 Tatistcheff & Co. Inc., New York, NY
Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
1999 Ron Judish Fine Arts, Denver, CO
Tatistcheff & Co. Inc., New York, NY
Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
1996 Tatistcheff & Co. Inc., New York, NY
1995 Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angles, CA
1994 Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1992 Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
I-Space, Chicago, IL
1991Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Nancy Lurie Gallery Chicago, IL
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
1989Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
1988 Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Yale University, New Haven, CT
School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
1986 Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
1985 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983 Nancy Lurie Gallery Chicago, IL
1981 Krannart Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana,IL
1977Trumbull College, New Haven, CT
S E L E C T E D B I B L I O G R A P H Y
“Today’s American Scene”, essay by Mindy Neustifter Beesaw, The Sporting Life exhibition
catalogue, Ucross, WY, 2013
“Inside Acrylics”, Phillip Garrett, 4 paintings reproduced, 2013
“Love Reports to Spring Training”, Linda Kittell, cover illustration, 2012
“Devil’s Canyon”, cover illustration, Epoch, Volume 58, Number 2, Cornell University,
September, 2009
“Solo Efforts Pay Off”, Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post, Denver, CO, August, 15, 2008
“John Hull and Manning Williams”, The Charleston Mercury, Charleston, SC, March 27, 2008
“John Hull and Barbara Duval: Works”, Olivia Pool, The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC,
October 25, 2007
“Artist Inspired by Junkyard ‘Edge’”, Dottie Ashley, The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC,
October 21, 2007
Horror Show, Michael Paglia, Westword, February 22-28, 2007
Search For Modern Life, Ken Johnson, The Boston Globe, January 24, 2007
Critic’s Picks, Ken Johnson, The Boston Globe, January, 14, 2007
Metal Shows It’s Rough Edge, Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, November 4, 2006
Take Me Out to the Art Show, Chris Shull, Wichita Eagle, June 18, 2006
Exploring Facets of the Diamond Life, Alice Thorson, Kansas City Star, June 18, 2006
Best of Denver, 2005, Westword
Messages from a Dark Place, Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, June 21, 2005
Action Pictures, Michael Paglia, Westord, Denver, CO, January 27-February 2, 2005
Dangerous Liasons, Michael Paglia, Westword, April 7-13, 2005
The Art of the Game, Chris Shull, Wichta Eagle, July 24, 2005
Art Beat, Michael Paglia, Westword, Denver, CO, June 17-23, 2004
Critics Choice, Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO, June 12, 2004
John Hull’s American Narrative Visions , Wendy Ward, City Paper, Baltimore, MD, March 24
–31, 2004
Gallery Sovereign Demonstrates Power of Political Art , J. Gluckstern, The Daily Camera,
Boulder, CO, March 7, 2004
Top of the Rocky , Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO, Oct. 30, 2003
Heads, Michael Paglia, Westword, Denver, CO, Oct. 29 – Nov 4, 2003
Risk Management, Michael Paglia, Westword, Denver, CO, June 12 – 18, 2003
Selection Process Makes Interesting Biennial at MCA, J. Gluckstern, The Daily Camera,
Boulder, CO, June 15, 2003
Star Power, Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO, June 6, 2003
Exhibit Shines Spotlight on Contemporary Art, Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post, Denver, CO,
June 5, 2003
Stable Runs Course at Judish, Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO, May 23,
2003
Year in Review, Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO, Dec. 28, 2002
Eye Popping Exhibit, Kyle MacMillin, Denver Post, Denver, CO, Dec. 6, 2002
Eye Candy, Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO, Nov. 29, 2002
Best of 2002, Michael Paglia, Westword, Denver, CO, April 4-10, 2002
Critics Choice, Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO, Feb. 16, 2002
The Wild Side, Michael Paglia, Westword, Denver, CO, Jan 21 – Feb. 8, 2002
Tough Love: John Hull’s Canvases Capture the Hard Facts of Life , Mary Chandler, Rocky
Mountain News, Denver, CO, Jan. 15, 2002
City Focus: Denver, Michael Paglia, Art News, New York, Jan., 2002
New American Paintings, Number 42, The Open Studio Press, Boston, MA, 2002
The Gettysburg Review, Summer 2002, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, 2002
A Creative Legacy, A history of the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists’ Fellowship
Program, Harry N. Abrams, New York, NY, 2002
Great American Writers, Volume Nine, Cavendish Books, White Plains, NY, 2002
Handful of Soldiers, David Steinberg, The Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque, NM, Dec. 25,
2001
V Marks the Spot, Anne Ray and Francesca Rodriquez, Santa Fe Reporter, Santa Fe, NM,
Dec. 15-25, 2001
Good Heavens, Michael Paglia, Westword, Denver, CO, Nov. 8-14, 2001
Paint a Story, Heather Evangelatos, The Sheridan Press, Sheridan, WY, Aug. 25, 2001
John Hull, Alexi Worth, The New Yorker, April, 20, 2001
A Moment in Time, Paul Weidmen, Santa Fe, New Mexican, Sante Fe, NM, March 23, 2001
Galleries/Midtown, New York Times, New York, NY, March 18, 2001
Gun Show Right on Target, Dan Bischoff, Newark Star Ledger, Newark, NJ, Feb. 23, 2001
Painting Challenges-with vigor, Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO, Nov. 14,
2000
John Hull, Alexi Worth, The New Yorker, New York, NY, April 20, 2001
Baseball: The National Pastime in Art and Literature, edited by David Colbert, Time Life
Books, New York, NY, 2000, pp. 78, 82, 83, 156.
John Hull at Tatistcheff, Lance Esplund, Art in America, Dec. 1999
Opposites Attract, Michael Paglia, Westword, Denver CO, Nov. 18-24, 1999
Best of Denver 1999- Best Solo Painting Show, Westword, Denver, CO, June 24-30, 1999
John Hull, Alexi Worth, The New Yorker, New York, April 26 & May 3, 1999
The Wild, Wild West, Michael Paglia, Westword, Denver, CO, April 1-7, 1999
SMART, Ken Johnson, New York Times, May 29, 1998
Battle of the Sexes, John Hull’s New Series on Men and Women, Mike Giuliano, City Paper,
May 8, 1996
Five Artists with Something to Say, John Dorsey, The Sun, Baltimore, MD, May 1, 1996
John Hull: Kohn Turner, Suzanne Muchnic, Art News, Summer, 1995
John Hull, Grace Borgenicht, Carol Kino, Art News, Dec., 1994
John Hull, Josh Meyer, MUSE 1994
Milwaukee Exhibit Probes Concept of Place, Sheboygan Press, April 5, 1994
Critical Reflections, Wesley Pulka, THE Magazine, Santa Fe, NM, Nov. 1993, p. 39
Art Lines, David Staton, Albuquerque Journal, Sept. 23, 1993
Men Working, Jeff Wright, Cover, August 1993
Yale Celebrates Its Artists and Its Collectors Since 1950, William Zimmer, New York Times,
June 27, 1993
John Hull: Grace Borgenicht, Megan Mueller, ARTnews, Jan. 1993, p.140
Backing Clinton, Carol Kino, Modern Painters, Winter 1992/93
Minds Eye Provides Window to History, Elaine Coleman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
News Bulletin, Jan. 22, 1993, p.16
Baseball: A Treasury of Art and Literature, Michael Ruscoe, ed., Hugh Lauter Levin,
Associates, Inc., 1993, reproductions pp.286, 287
Order of Battle: John Hull’s Vision of the Little Big Horn, catalogue for exhibition,
1992,Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT Exhibition is Window on Society, Phyllis Braff, The
New York Times, May 14, 1991
Play Ball: A Look at the American Pastime, Jeff Johnson, reproduction, U.S.Art, Oct. 1990
Painting as a Minor Art Form: Artist John Hull has Caught the Moods of Louisville’s Triple A
Redbirds on Canvas, Rick Wolff, Sports Illustrated, Sept. 17, 1990
Baseball Art Shows View from Dugout of Redbirds, Jim Adams, The Courier Journal,
Louisville, KY, June 24,1990
John Hull at the J.B. Speed Art Museum, Diane Heilenman, Review, The Courier Journal,
Louisville, KY, June 24, 1990
Birds in the Brush, Bruce Allar, Louisville Magazine, June 1990
The Art of Baseball, Shelly Mehlman Dinhofer, Harmony Books, New York, 1990
Life Through Baseball, Gerald Ryan, The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, June 13, 1989
His Work Explores the In-Betweens of Our Lives, Linell Smith, The Baltimore Sun, August 20,
1988
Content Shares Stage in Hull’s Recent Work, John Dorsey, The Baltimore Sun, August 16,
1988
Painter John Hull and the Responsibility of the Artist, John Dorsey, The Baltimore Sun,
August 1988
John Hull, Judd Tully, Arts Magazine, Dec. 1986
Between Heaven and Hull, Craig Hankin, Warfield’s, Oct. 1986
Unfamiliar Creatures in Alien Seas, Paul Richard, The Washington Post, Feb. 12, 1986
Scapes Exhibit: Rooms With too Many Views, Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 9,
1985
Images of War: An Exercise in Distancing the Dreadful, Richard Huntington, Buffalo Evening
News, Nov. 29, 1985
The Scopes of Scapes, Shirley Tatum, Daily Nexus, Nov. 14, 1985
Scapes: Looking at the World, Carrie Radlo, The Weekly, Nov. 7, 1985
Scapes, Phyllis Plous, catalogue for the exhibition at University Art Museum, Santa Barbara,
CA, 1985
John Hull, Mary Judge, New Art Examiner, Nov. 1985
The Surrounding World: Scapes, Robert McDonald, Artweek, Nov. 1985
Political Messages, William Zimmer, The New York Times, Oct. 27, 1985
Painter Reveals…, Bill Marvel, Dallas Times Herald, May 7, 1985
Necessary Evils, Lucy Lippard, Village Voice, March 19, 1985
Outpost of Progress, Grace Glueck, The New York Times, March 8, 1985
Museum Beat, Roberta Graff, South Shore Record, March 7, 1985 Outpost of Progress: The
Paintings of John Hull, Marcia Tucker, catalogue for exhibition, New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Religion and Mythology, Joshua Kind, New Art Examiner, Jan. 1985
Inside Reality, John Dorsey, Baltimore Morning Sun, June 1984
Chicago Bluster and Brawn, Charlotte Moser, ARTnews, May 1983, p.102
An Iconography of Recent Figurative Painting, Marcia Tucker, reproduction, Artform
Magazine, Summer 1982, p.75
An Artists Notebook, Bernard Chaet, acknowledgement in preface, Holt, Reinhardt and
Winston, 1979
The Art of Drawing, Bernard Chaet, reproductions, Holt, Reinhardt and Winston, 1978
C A T A L O G U E S
“Cody Nite Rodeo,” Simpson Gallagher Gallery, Cody, WY 2014
“The Sporting Life,” UCROSS Foundation Art Gallery, Clearmont, WY, 2013
“Ucross: 27 Years of Visual Arts Residencies,” Nicalaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY 2010
“The Federal Reserve Collection,” The Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City, KS, 2008
John Hull: Paintings of the Wichita Wranglers, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS, 2006
John Hull: Pictures from Sonny’s Place, essay by Annie Proulx, University of Wyoming Art
Museum/Ucross Foundation, 2005
‘turnrow,’ Fall 2005, literary magazine published by the University of Louisiana, Monroe, 9
paintings reproduced ‘lillies and cannonballs review’, Spring/Summer 2005, NYC, 3 drawings
reproduced
"New American Paintings: The 9th Open Studios Western Competition", The Open Studio
Press, Boston, MA
"Catalogue Illustre de Peinture et Sculpure", Salon d’Arts, Denver, CO, 2005
The 179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, The National
Academy of Design, New York, NY, 2004
Salon d’Arts: Exhibiton Catalogue, Colorado History Museum, Denver, CO, 2004 Pictures
from Life’s Other Side: The paintings of John Hull, A.R.T. Press, New York, NY, 2003
Imitation of Life: The Paintings of John Hull, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, 2001
Series, Judith Swirsky, 2001, pp. 12-15
Ulrich, Wichita State University, 2001, p. 5
Handful of Soldiers, The New Mexico Office of Cultural Affairs, 2001, Office Cover, pp. 11,12
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug
Harbor, SI, NY, 2000
Artists on Art. Observations by Yale Faculty on selections from Yale University Art Gallery,
Yale University Art Gallery, 1999, pp. 14,15
The Alamo, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, 1994
S-Site, Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1993
Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1993, pp. 43, 77
John Hull: Custer’s Last Stand, Yellowstone Arts Center, Billings, MT 1992
The Artist at Ringside, The Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 1992
The Connecticut Biennial II, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT 1991
John Hull: Paintings and Drawings of the Louisville Redbirds, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New
York, NY, 1990
John Hull: Paintings and Drawings of the Louisville Redbirds, J.B. Speed Art Museum,
Louisville, KY, 1990
Romance and Irony in Recent American Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia,
1989
In Our Time, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, 1989
In Our Time, The Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT, 1989
John Hull: Paintings and Drawings 1981-1989, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, 1988
John Hull: The King Lear Series, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 1987
1976-1986: Ten Years of Collecting Contemporary American Art, Selections from the Edward
R. Downe, Jr. Collection, Wellesley College Museum, MA 1986, pp. 40-41
The Political Landscape, Rutgers University, NJ, 1985
Outposts of Progress: The Paintings of John Hull, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New
York, 1985
Critical Perspectives, P.S.1, New York, 1982