Candace Hill-Montgomery (born February 9, 1945) is an American writer and artist. She works in photography, mixed-media collage, and watercolors. She was born and raised in Queens, New York City. According to Hill-Montgomery, her mother was a strong supporter of her artistic development. She attended Fordham University (B.A., 1977) and Hunter College (M.A., 1981). While an undergraduate, in 1979, Hill-Montgomery was artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and exhibited her work at Artists Space. She was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1981, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985. In the 1980s, she exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the New Museum, Franklin Furnace, Fashion Moda, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 1985, Hill-Montgomery curated a solo exhibition of Lorna Simpson's work with Lucy R. Lippard titled Working Women/Working Artists/Working Together. She participated in the "Race and Representation" exhibition at the Hunter College Art Gallery in 1987. She has published essays in the Woman's Art Journal. Her work is now in the New Digital Archive Museum.In May of 2019, Candace Hill-Montgomery's collection was exhibited at the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum.
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9 February 1945 (age 80)
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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