Candace Hill-Montgomery

Hollybush Gardens is pleased to present the first UK solo show by New York based artist Candace Hill-Montgomery (b.1945 Queens, New York; lives and works in Bridgehampton, New York), whose practice spans painting, photography, installation, assemblage, textiles and writing.

Making and exhibiting since the 1970s, Hill-Montgomery developed an experimental approach in relation to her experience of post-war segregation in New York and the revolutionary activism of the time. She writes: ‘My work is about language. Even if it’s not talking about language within the piece, it’s about language and how we look at things through history. And that is political.’

In 1980, Hill-Montgomery’s work was included in the seminal Times Square Show, New York, organised by Colab and Issue, Social Strategies by Women Artists at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, curated by Lucy R. Lippard. In 1983, together with Lippard, she organised and exhibited in Working Artists/WorkingWomen/WorkingTogether at Gallery 1199, New York. In 2024, she presented a solo exhibition Pretty Birds Peer Speak Sow Peculiar at Blank Forms, New York. Recent group exhibitions include From the Studio: Fifty-Eight Years of Artists in Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Here Is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis & Survival, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (both 2025) and Reluctant Gravities, Hollybush Gardens, London (2024).