VISITING ARTIST LECTURE, WILL HUTNICK, ARTIST/CURATOR: 11 a.m., Visual & Performing Arts Center, Room 144, WCSU Westside campus. Free and open to the public, but limited seating available.

Will Hutnick is an artist and curator based in Wassaic, New York. He received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 2011 and his B.A. from Providence College in 2007. He is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting, and a recipient of grants from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation in 2017 and Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2016.

Hutnick’s work has been in solo exhibitions at Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Elijah Wheat Showroom, Standard Space, Providence College Galleries, One River School, The Java Project, and St. Thomas Aquinas College. Group exhibitions include: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Hollis Taggart, Heaven Gallery and Geary Contemporary.

Hutnick has been awarded numerous artist-in-residencies, including Yaddo, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, and others. He has also been a curator-in-residence at Benaco Arte and at Trestle Projects, and has curated exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Pratt Institute, and Wassaic Project, among others.

From 2015 – 2020, Hutnick was one of the co-directors of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn. He is currently the Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change.