Colin Hunt paints primarily in the medium of egg tempera and watercolor, rendering mysterious and intricate images of the natural world. His work centers ecology as a way to recast traditions of portraiture as landscape, veering from conventions of each. Neither place nor person, the paintings represent a collective intertwining of memory, death, and the afterlife. His process and aesthetic concerns reflect formal ideas about how what’s missing can reorder perception, and how the personal experience of grief can exist communally, in people and in the earth itself.

Hunt received his MFA from Columbia University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in numerous museums and galleries, including The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Teckningsmuseet, Sweden, The Brooklyn Museum and The National Academy of Design. In 2011, he was the inaugural resident at the Galveston Artist Residency in Galveston, Texas.

His work has been featured and/or reviewed in a number of publications including New American Paintings, Harper’s, Columbia Magazine, The Brooklyn Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.

He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY and Waldoboro, Maine.