John Hull tells stories of life passages – “a series of psychological stories filled with boredom and wonder.” He wants to show human relationships and “the individual’s struggle to find equilibrium amidst passion and doubt.” He says, "…no matter how many different series or narrative ideas I explore as a painter, I think I end up telling the same story."

John Hull received a BA from Yale University and MFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His work is included in collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of Western Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Israel Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Greenville County Art Museum, the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum and Yale University Art Gallery.

He has exhibited since 1981 with a long list of solo shows including 1985 at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York and More Gallery, Philadelphia as well as the J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky in 1990. With many shows in between nationwide, the most recent solo shows were at the Wichita Art Museum in 2006 and the Alpha Gallery, Boston in 2007. Hull’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions at number of museums and galleries including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Academy of Design, Borgenicht Gallery, P.S. 1, One Penn Center, Tatistcheff Gallery and A.R.T. Resources all in New York; the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, The Center for the Visual Arts, Plus Gallery and Ron Judish Fine Arts in Colorado; the Neuburger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York; The National Gallery of New Zealand; the Tampa Art Museum, Florida; The Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana; the New House Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor, New York; Rutgers University Art Museum, Newark, New Jersey; the Butler Museum of Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles; Ulrich Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas; the Yale University Art Gallery; the Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; and the Greenville County Art Museum and the Halsey Institute in South Carolina.

Hull has received four National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists’ Fellowships, one from the Maryland Arts Council, the Thomas Benedict Clarke Prize for Painting in 2004 from the National Academy of Design and an Achievement Award in 1995 from American Artist Magazine.

He has taught at Augustana College in Illinois, Yale University and the University of Colorado. He is retired Professor of Painting and Department Chair of Studio Art from the College of Charleston.

Visit www.johnhullpaintings.com for an overview of Hull's work.