Hillel Selznick is an award-winning visual artist whose work often deals with themes of identity and social justice. His art has been featured at museums and galleries around the world, and has been shown at The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem. Selznick currently lives and works in New York City.
Hillel Selznick has always loved the meditative quality of the abstract genre, although he also paints portraits, figures and landscape. He prefers very simple subject matter as he is more interested in a formalist approach where composition, colour and light create the drama and meaning in a painting. Each work is the result of many hours of contemplation, and he only work directly from life. The abstract qualities of everyday objects always fascinate him.
Selznick’s first exposure to the visual arts came from his uncle, who was a painter and art professor. He started his art education in the field of sculpture, but then switched to painting. After getting a Bachelor’s Degree from New York University, he began his prolific career in the field of visual arts.
Hillel Selznick’s first solo exhibition was at the Berkeley Art Museum in 1999. He has since had many solo shows, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in 2010, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City in 2010, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) in 2011, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2013, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 2014. He also had a two-person show with the artist Mark Lewis in 2015 at the Drawing Center in New York City.
Selznick has also been involved with many group exhibitions, including those at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2002, the University of California Berkeley in 2003, the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2009, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara in 2009, the Pacific Standard Time LA/LA at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2017 and 2018, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver in 2018.
Selznick has won many awards for his work, including the Louis B. Mayer Award from the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2010, the Andy Warhol/Artists Studio Fellowship from the Visual Arts Foundation in 2012, and the American Prize in 2016.
Hillel Selznick is an immensely talented visual artist whose work is based on a combination of conceptual art and modernist principles. He often uses personal experiences as inspiration for his work. He has been involved with many group exhibitions while also having many successful solo shows. He has won many awards for his work, including the Louis B. Mayer Award from the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2010, the Andy Warhol/Artists Studio Fellowship from the Visual Arts Foundation in 2012, and the American Prize in 2016. Selznick currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
