Hilary Pfeifer

http://www.hilarypfeifer.com

http://hilarypfeifer.blogspot.com/

http://www.artonalberta.org/

Hilary Pfeifer was born in 1967 in Eugene, Oregon to very creative parents who were always using their minds and hands to make things, as well as running a craft gallery for over 25 years. With these influences in her formative years, it was no wonder that Hilary began making her living as an artist in her early 20s. Her formal arts training has been lifelong, including Maude Kerns Arts Center, Penland School, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Colby College, the University of Oregon, and Oregon College of Art and Craft (BFA Metals 1999.)

Hilary has shown her artwork extensively around the United States and in the UK in both solo and group exhibitions, including PDX Contemporary Gallery, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery, Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, the Indianapolis Art Center, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, the Fuller Craft Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She has also won several awards and scholarships, including an honorable mention in the Northwest Biennial at the Tacoma Art Museum, a professional development grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Lilla Jewel Award, and an artist's residency at the Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia. Hilary resides and maintains a studio in Portland, Oregon.

We thank Hilary for allowing us to use her Thinking Cap sculpture on this year's Thinking Gender poster.