Candace Hill-Montgomery

Candace Hill-Montgomery (born February 9, 1945) is an American writer and artist. She works in photography, mixed-media collage, and watercolors.[1][2] She was born and raised in Queens, New York City. According to Hill-Montgomery, her mother was a strong supporter of her artistic development.[3] She attended Fordham University (B.A., 1977) and Hunter College (M.A., 1981). While an undergraduate, in 1979, Hill-Montgomery was artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and exhibited her work at Artists Space.[4] She was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1981,[5] and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985.[6] In the 1980s, she exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the New Museum, Franklin Furnace, Fashion Moda, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 1985, Hill-Montgomery curated a solo exhibition of Lorna Simpson's work with Lucy R. Lippard titled Working Women/Working Artists/Working Together.[7] She participated in the "Race and Representation" exhibition at the Hunter College Art Gallery in 1987. She has published essays in the Woman's Art Journal.[8] Her work is now in the New Digital Archive Museum.[9]In May of 2019, Candace Hill-Montgomery's collection was exhibited at the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum.[3]

Artist's work

Candace Hill-Montgomery's art works use elements of fabric and poetry to convey social issues through the usage of humor and satire. The topics covered in her artworks are racism, poverty and feminism, migrants and refugee children.[3] In particular, her art piece "Free Dom with Purchase" (a reference to a famous brand of champagne - Dom Pérignon) portrays a Harlem woman who runs a restaurant business to help her local community. For this particular art work, Candace Hill-Montgomery utilized tablecloth and napkins with poetry written on them.[10]

References
  1. Wolff, Theodore F. (August 14, 1980). "Black Art Thrives at Harlem's Studio Museum". Christian Science Monitor.
  2. "Candace Hill-Montgomery". Thomas J. Watson Archive.
  3. Trauring, Michelle (2019-05-15). "Candace Hill Montgomery Weaves Threads of Joy and Pain". The Sag Harbor Express. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  4. "Candace Montgomery: A Different Kind of Political | The East Hampton Star". www.easthamptonstar.com. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  5. "Annual Report 1981" (PDF). National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  6. "Candace Hill-Montgomery". John C. Guggenheim Foundation.
  7. "10 Artists Remember Their First Exhibition | artnet News". artnet News. 2016-08-11. Retrieved 2018-07-29.
  8. Lippard, Lucy R., and Candace Hill-Montgomery. (1982). "Working Women/Working Artists/Working Together". Woman's Art Journal. 3: 19–20.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. "Currents: Candace Hill-Montgomery". New Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-03-12.
  10. Lippard, L., & Hill-Montgomery, C. (1982). "Working Women/Working Artists/Working Together". Woman's Art Journal. 3(1): 19–20 – via JSTOR.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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