Elliott Hundley expands the traditional notions of collage in a multidisciplinary practice of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and design that synthesizes ancient epics, futuristic narratives, and contemporary realities. The coalescence of Hundley’s own personal and symbolic world with contemporary and ancient cultural references and signs creates a highly personalized visual language in his work. Moving fluidly across media, the artist utilizes materials as various as bronze, bamboo, polystyrene, steel, embroidered fabric, and ceramics.
Hundley was born in 1975 in Greensboro, North Carolina. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence in 1997 and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2005. He had his first solo exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles in 2006.
Hundley leverages an abiding knowledge of classical mythology and literature to weave a fabric of allusions, informing projects such as his 2011 solo exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, which travelled to the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, and took on the Ancient Greek tragedy The Bacchae by Euripides as its subject matter. In 2006, the artist’s installation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, referenced Greek figures Aphrodite, Meddea, and Penelope, and 2016-17, Hundley presented solo exhibitions based on Antonin Artaud’s surrealist 1933 play There Is No More Firmament. His first solo exhibition at Kasmin, which opened in September 2021, took its inspiration from Jean Genet’s 1957 play The Balcony. In 2019, Hundley was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Guggenheim Fellowship.
Elliott Hundley’s work is included in significant international public collections including The Broad, Los Angeles, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Pérez Art Museum Miami, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Vancouver Art Gallery, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Hundley is based in Los Angeles, CA.
