Bio
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Alt Text: This image features Hillary standing in front of a mid-tone wooden panel. She has a closed mouth smile, curly brown hair, and is wearing sushi earrings made out of paper clay as well as a black and white striped turtle neck. They’re happy in this moment.
Hillary Price | (she/they) | b. 1989
Hillary is a neurodiverse artist learning everyday how to interact with a neurotypical world. To her, making art is a way of exploring her mind to understand herself more clearly. With unexpected twists and turns, she highlights the neural connections of the brain with light and visual imagery to take exploration of neurodiversity even deeper.
She is a maker of objects, images and spaces that question our own reality and the synchronicity of visual structures connecting us to the universe around us. Her current work includes a coloring book entitled Beautiful Creepies, interactive shadow sculptures, and a digital painting series investigating the overlaps between imagined entities and real structures. Currently, she is intrigued by the concept within science and technology of darkness as a stand in for the unknown. Dark energy and dark matter occupy a majority of our universe, yet the term dark is a scientific placeholder that signifies not knowing and not understanding. There is much to be learned from the dark, the liminal, and the interstices between knowledge and the physical forms that connect us.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally- including a residency in Fujioka, Japan in 2017, published works in Susie magazine based out of Brooklyn, New York in 2019, and a selection of works exhibited virtually at the Freeborn County Arts Initiative in Albert Lea, Minnesota in 2020-21. Her teaching experience since 2013 includes elementary education, college level drawing at the University of Minnesota, art workshops at non-profit organizations in Minnesota and Wisconsin, an adjunct instructor in the Visual Art Department at the St Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists, and most recently as an arts instructor for Portland Parks & Recreation teaching college level courses to every age level.
From 2011 to 2013, she ran a non-profit gallery with colleagues in Las Vegas that focused on equitable arts access, creating opportunities and space for installation and experimental artists, and rejecting the capitalistic ideals of what art should be. With experience working in a variety of classrooms and galleries, she leverages her unique art world perspective to inspire students to share their voices in the classroom and beyond.