Kyle Hackett
Kyle Hackett
Kyle Hackett

Kyle Hackett

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BiographyKyle Hackett (b. Still Pond, MD) is a visual artist based in Washington, DC. He earned his MFA in Painting from the Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and his BFA in Fine Arts as a McNair Scholar from the University of Delaware. His paintings explore race, class and social standing through approaches to self-representation and the constructed image.

Hackett has completed residencies including: The League Residency in NY as recipient of the Ruth Katzman Scholarship, Contemporary Artists Center, NY, and Vermont Studio Center, where he was the recipient of the Civil Society Institute Fellowship. Hackett has received numerous honors and awards, including Best in Show at the 2014 Bethesda Painting Awards Exhibition and Best in Show at the Regional Juried Biennial at Rehoboth Arts League. His work has been featured and written about in New American Paintings, The Washington Post, and distinguished as "Ten Memorable Paintings of 2014" in the Huffington Post. He was a semifinalist in the 2016 and 2019 BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London. In 2019, Hackett received A Mayoral Salute for his solo exhibition and artist talk, Rate of Contingency, at Baltimore City Hall Gallery.

His work is represented by Goya Contemporary Gallery (Baltimore, MD) and notably collected by Ethan Cohen New York Gallery, University Museums at University of Delaware, University of Maryland University College, Wangechi Mutu Studio and the Trawick Foundation. Hackett currently teaches at American University (Washington, DC) and MICA (Baltimore, MD).

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