Hilary Pecis (b. 1979, Fullerton, CA) earned a BFA and MFA from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Recent solo exhibitions include Art in Focus, Art Production Fund, Rockefeller Center, NY; Timothy Taylor Gallery, London; Spurs Gallery, Beijing, China; The Crisp-Ellert Museum, St. Augustine, FL; Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; The Pit, Los Angeles, CA; Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA; among others. Pecis has participated in numerous group exhibitions, such as FEEDBACK, curated by Helen Molesworth, Jack Shainman School, Kinderhook, NY; David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; The Nassima-Landau Project, Tel Aviv, Israel; the GANA Art Center, Seoul, South Korea; Brand Library & Arts Center, Glendale, CA; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; University of Texas, San Antonio, TX; Dominican University of San Rafael, San Rafael, CA; and Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA.
Pecis was the 2008 recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship and is a co-founder of Binder of Women, a collective of female artists based in Los Angeles. Her work is in the public collections of the Berezdivin Collection, Puerto Rico; Budi Tek Yuz Museum, Shanghai; Zhuzhong Museum, Beijing; Li Lin JNBY Museum, Hangzhou, China; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China; and New Century Art Foundation, Shanghai, China. Pecis lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
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