Corin Hewitt

Corin Hewitt was born in 1971 in Burlington, Vermont. He lives and works in Richmond, Virginia and East Corinth, Vermont. He received a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Karlsruhe, Germany. Hewitt has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, the Seattle Art Museum. His work has recently been included in group exhibitions at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; the Sao Paolo Biennial in Brazil; the Whitney Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Galerie Perrotin, Paris, with the Public Art Fund in New York, and the Wanas Foundation in Sweden. Hewitt is a recipient of a 2011/12 Guggenheim Fellowship and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2010/11. Mousse Publishing has recently released a monograph on Hewitt’s work entitled 7 Perfomances. Hewitt is an Associate Professor of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth and is represented by Laurel Gitlen Gallery in New York.