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Kristin Hough

Coordinator, MFA Low-Residency Programs

Summary

Kristin Hough is an artist, educator and curator working in the expanded field of painting. She graduated with a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the University of California, Davis, where she was awarded the Provost and Margrit Mondavi Fellowships. Her work has been exhibited nationally, with recent solo shows at Stone House Art Gallery in Charlotte, NC and Burb Contemporary in Sacramento, CA. She has been featured in New American Paintings, Friend of the Artist and Hyperallergic, and published an artist book with National Monument Press. As a curator, she's mounted exhibitions throughout the western United States and co-founded the artist-run space Outback Projects. Hough is also a recent recipient of a Nevada Arts Council Project Grant. She is currently based in Reno, NV where she teaches painting and drawing at the University of Nevada, Reno. More of her work can be seen on her website above.

Education

  • BA, Art Studio & English, Wesleyan University
  • MFA, Art Studio, University of California, Davis

Explore Hough's work

  • Hot $lot$, 2022, billboard
  • It's all coming up, 2020-2021, acrylic on canvas
  • this | is | not | a | game, 2019, acrylic and gouache
  • Curtain-up, 2021, acrylic on canvas
  • Collection (left to right): Before the Fall a.k.a. Nature Show, 2019, acrylic; (waves crashing), 2019, acrylic and gouache; (thunder rumbling), 2019, acrylic and gouache; How To: A Paradise, 2017, acrylic and gouache