Hunt, who was trained as an illustrator, has a BFA from Parsons School of Design. As a fine artist, he makes charcoal and pastel works on paper that are narrative and/or allegorical in nature. Hunt has had seven solo shows in the U.S. and Europe as well as solo presentations at VOLTA Basel and SPRING BREAK New York. The work has been included in many group exhibitions including at Skidmore College and The University of North Carolina Asheville. He has also been included in several group shows curated by the esteemed American collector Beth Rudin deWoody. Hunt has himself co-curated an exhibition of contemporary American narrative art titled, You Tell Me, at Foley Gallery in NYC. As an illustrator, Hunt’s work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harpers, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Boston Globe, and GQ Magazine.

 

Hunt is the recipient of the 2017 FID Prize for Drawing, as well as a Fellowship from The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), a two-year grant from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and he is a Yaddo Fellow (2017). His work is included in many private and international collections, including Colecção Madeira Corporate Services Drawing Collection in Portugal. His drawings are part of the permanent collection of contemporary art at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem and The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles.

 

“The intense, exquisite realism of Hunt’s technique is in dynamic contrast to the surrealism of the scenes he depicts, and this disjunction contributes to their arresting, dreamlike atmosphere. Each tells a story, but we are not told what story it tells. The result is a mystifying intimacy, the feeling that we have interrupted the scene and are now indelibly a part of it.”

—Andrew Solomon, Author, Winner of the National Book Award

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