Reggie Burrows Hodges
Reggie Burrows Hodges (b. 1965, Compton, California) explores storytelling and visual metaphor through paintings that engage with questions of identity, community, truth, and memory. Starting from a black ground, he develops the scene around his figures with painterly, foggy brushwork, playing with how perception is affected when the descriptive focus is placed not on human agents but on their surroundings. Figures materialize in recessive space, stripped of physical identifiers; bodies are described by their painted context. These formal decisions speak to Hodges’s embrace of tenuous ambiguities and his close observation of the relationship between humans and their environment. He lives in the Bay Area.
His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at, among others, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2023–24); Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts (2023), Karma, Los Angeles (2023), the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine (2021–22), Karma, New York (2021), and Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, Maine (2020, 2019). His work is held in the public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Dallas Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
Born 1965 in Compton, California
Lives and works in the Bay Area
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Karma, Los Angeles, Authorities of Reason (forthcoming)
2023
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Incline
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Turning a Big Ship
Karma, Los Angeles, The Reckoning
2022
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine, Hawkeye
2021
Karma, New York
2020
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, Maine, Precision, Wagering and Melody
The Press Hotel, Portland, Maine, Intersection of Color
2019
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, Maine, Black Ground
Interloc Projects, Rockland, Maine, Spot
2018
Gallery at 46 Lisbon, Lewiston, Maine, Public Safety
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024-25
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture
2024
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Infinite Regress: Mystical Abstraction from the Permanent Collection and Beyond
70 Main Street, Thomaston, Maine, A Particular Kind of Heaven
Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica in collaboration with Aïshti Foundation, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Day for Night: New American Realism, curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Flaminia Gennari Santori
FLAG Art Foundation, New York, The Swimmer
Altman Siegel, San Francisco, curated by K.R.M Mooney
2023
FLAG Art Foundation, New York, Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing
Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden, Down North: North Atlantic Triennial
The Hill Art Foundation, New York, Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained, curated by David Salle
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
2022
The Warehouse, Dallas, Out of Body, Out of Mind
LACMA, Los Angeles, Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, Down North: North Atlantic Triennial
2021-22
Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, In Resonance with David Byrd
2021
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Black American Portraits
Karma, New York, Get Lifted!, organized by Hilton Als
70 Main Street, Maine, Moons and Angels
Cove Street Arts, Portland, Maine, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation: Fellows and Residents
FLAG Art Foundation, New York, and I will wear you in my heart of heart
2020
Sistered, Portland, In the Clear with Jordan Seaberry
Karma, New York, (Nothing but) Flowers
UNE Art Gallery, Portland Campus, The House of the Soul
2019
ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, MECA Collect
Creative Portland, Portland, Maine, Immersion
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, Portland, Maine
2018
Creative Portland, Portland, Maine, (Almost) Black & White
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Institute of Chicago
Blanton Museum of art, Austin, Texas
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Dallas Museum of Art
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
RESIDENCIES
2019
Pace House Residency, Stonington, Maine
Monson Arts Residency, Monson, Maine
Ellis-Beuregard Foundation, Rockland, Maine
AWARDS
2023
Addison Artist Council, Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. Prize
2021
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Jacob Lawrence Award in Art
2020
Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant
2019
Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Fellowship in the Visual Arts
