Kyle Hackett Assistant Professor CAS | ART | Art
- Degrees
- MFA in Painting, LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art
BFA in Fine Art, Ronald E. McNair Scholar, University of Delaware - Bio
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Kyle Hackett (b. Still Pond, MD) earned his MFA from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art and his BFA in Fine Arts as a McNair Scholar from the University of Delaware. His paintings explore issues of race, class, and social standing through approaches to self-representation and the constructed image.
Hackett has received numerous honors and awards, including the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship and Grant, the Civil Society Institute Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center Residency, The Ruth Katzman Scholarship at The League Residency in New York, Best in Show at the 2014 Bethesda Painting Awards Exhibition. He was a semifinalist in the 2016 and 2019 BP Portrait Award (London), honorable mention in the 2019 Art Olympia International Open Art Competition (Tokyo), and a finalist in the 2020 Prisma Art Prize (Rome) and the Alexander Rutsch Award for Painting in 2021, and selected for the ArtFields Competition in 2022 and 2023. Hackett is a finalist in the Herbert Smith Freehills 2024 Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Hackett's work has been featured in publications such as New American Paintings, the Washington Post, Aesthetica Magazine (UK) and distinguished as "Ten Memorable Paintings of 2014" in the Huffington Post. Hackett received A Mayoral Salute from the City of Baltimore for his solo exhibition and artist talk "Rate of Contingency" at Baltimore City Hall. Current and recent exhibitions include the Herbert Smith Freehills 2024 Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (London, UK); Revisit/Reimagine: The Civil Rights Era in Maryland and Parallels of Today at Banneker-Douglass Museum (Annapolis, MD) and Circular Narratives at Vinegar Projects (Birmingham, AL). Hackett’s work is represented by Goya Contemporary Gallery (Baltimore, MD) and notably collected by Ethan Cohen Gallery (New York), Wangechi Mutu Studio, University Museums at the University of Delaware, University of Maryland, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Capital One Lounge permanent collection at the Washington Dulles International Airport, the Trawick Foundation and more.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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ARTS-210 Artist's Perspective: Painting
Spring 2025
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ARTS-210 Artist's Perspective: Painting
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ARTS-696 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring