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Contributor

Hilary Irons

Hilary Irons is a Maine-based painter and curator. She is gallery and exhibitions director at the University of New England and is represented by Dowling Walsh Gallery. She received an MFA from the Yale School of Art in ’08 and a BFA from Parsons School of Design in ’02, and she has attended residencies at the Albers Foundation, Skowhegan, MacDowell, the American Academy in Rome, the Pace House, Hewnoaks, the Canterbury Shaker Village, and the Surf Point Foundation. She has written for The Chart, Art New England, Maine Magazine, and other publications.

By This Author

Online • Aug 12, 2025

A New Collaboration Between NADA and Surf Point Attempts to Bring the Art World Center to the Edge of the Atlantic

News by Hilary Irons

Online • Aug 05, 2025

Spotlight on Maine: Dunes Launches Summer Lineup of Experimental Events in Portland

News by Hilary Irons

Online • Jul 16, 2024

A Revisionist History: Bats! at Peabody Essex Museum

Review by Hilary Irons

Online • Dec 12, 2023

Material Transformation and Voyages of Change: Reggie Burrows Hodges’s “Turning a Big Ship” at the Addison Gallery of American Art 

Review by Hilary Irons

Online • Nov 07, 2023

Modernism Both Past and Present Shine in Two Shows at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art

Review by Hilary Irons

Online • Aug 29, 2023

At Karma’s Summer Outpost in Maine, Color Breaks the Silence of a Former Church

Review by Hilary Irons

Online • Jul 06, 2023

Kate Greene’s “Black Sun” Toys With Photographic Distortion at Grant Wahlquist Gallery

Review by Hilary Irons

Online • Jun 26, 2023

Covert Operations: Tyler Coburn and Ian Hatcher's Remote Viewer Explores CIA Seances

Interview by Hilary Irons