William Hunter

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b. 1947, Long Beach, California


SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Cornell Museum, Ithaca, NY
Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL
Fuller Museum, Boston, MA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
University Of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2006        Transforming Vision: The Wood Sculpture of William Hunter, 1970-2005,
            Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
        Our Turn Now: Artists Speak Out in Wood, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
2005        Collectors of Wood Art Forum, Philadelphia, PA
2004        Masters of Their Craft, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach CA
        Celebrating Nature, Craft Traditions - Contemporary Expressions, Craft
            &  Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
        Nature Transformed, Wood Art from the Bohlen Collection, University of
            Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
2003        The Inspired Vessel, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art
            Park, Los Angeles, CA
        Into the Woods, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
        William Hunter: Rhythms & Transformation, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        Collectors of Wood Art Forum, Santa Fe, NM
2002-03, 07    Turned & Sculptured Wood, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002-06    Turned Wood - Small Treasures, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        Surface + Form, Craftwest Gallery, Perth, Australia
        Collectors' Choice, Collectors of Wood Art Forum, SOFA, Chicago, IL
2001-02    Wood Turning in North America Since 1930,
            The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
            Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
            Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT