Reggie Burrows Hodges
Reggie Burrows Hodges (b. 1965, Compton, CA) is a painter whose works explore storytelling and visual metaphor. Hodges’ works uncover universal subjects such as identity, community, truth, and memory, and often draw inspiration from his childhood in Compton. 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. Hodges studied theatre and film at the University of Kansas.
His work is held in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France; and the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, among others.
Born 1965 in Compton, California
Lives and works in Lewiston, Maine
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Karma, Los Angeles (forthcoming)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts (forthcoming)
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
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, 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
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Blanton Museum of art, Austin, Texas
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
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
