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, highlighting Hodges’ embrace of tenuous ambiguities and his close observation of the relationship between humans and their surroundings. Their quiet haziness, developed with the soft touch of Hodges’ hand, probes the imprecision of memory and examines the possibility that we are all products of our environment. He lives in the Bay Area.

His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at, among others, 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.

Hodges’s work is currently on view in Turning a Big Ship at Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts.

Born 1965 in Compton, California

Lives and works in Lewiston, Maine

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Bay Area Walls

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

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
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