Lance Hunter has exhibited his
paintings and drawings in galleries in Europe and in many major cities in
the United States. These cities include New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Indianapolis,
Portland, Seattle, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Houston and Philadelphia. Hunter
has received over twenty-six awards in regional and national juried art exhibitions.
The December/January 2007 issue of International Artist Magazine
features an oil painting by Hunter that was selected as a finalist in their
annual figure competition. A watercolor of his daughter is featured on the
title pages of the book Splash 8: Watercolor Discoveries, a popular
anthology of contemporary watercolors published by Northlight Books.
Hunter received two awards in Watercolor USA 2010 including a purchase award
for the Springfield Art Museum. His watercolors have also been selected for
awards in the Twentieth Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors
in New York , the Eastern Washington Watercolor Society's 16th Annual Exhibition
and the Texas Watercolor Society’s 54th Annual Exhibition. Hunter's
watercolor entitled "Rayna" was selected for the 135th Annual International
Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society in New York. Stephen Doherty,
Editor-in-chief of American Artist magazine selected Hunter's work
as one of nineteen pieces exhibited in "American Watercolorists of 1998"
at the Stage Gallery in New York. Watercolors by Hunter were also selected
as finalists in The Artist Magazine’s 1999 and 2001
Annual Art competitions from over 13,000 entries each year. Lance is a signature
member of the National Watercolor Society and a member of the National Honor
Society an affiliation of award winners from Watercolor USA.
Hunter has exhibited oil paintings with the Oil Painters of America National
Exhibition, the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society and in the Southern
Representational Painters National Exhibition. His oil paintings have been
published in several issues of American Art Collector magazine in
recent years. Lance's paintings completed in oil and watercolors hang in private
collections in over fifteen states and in Europe.
In addition to his studio work, Hunter has completed more than twenty large
scale murals in California, Oregon, Texas, Oklahoma and Kentucky. His series
of murals in Lufkin, Texas received the President's Award for Best Public
Improvement Project from the Texas Downtown Association in 2001. Five of his
murals are included in Mural Art 2: Murals on Huge Public Surfaces Around
the World, a hardback book published in 2009 by Carpe Diem in English
and Greek and distributed internationally.
Lance Hunter is an Associate Professor of Art at Northeastern State University
in Oklahoma teaching painting and drawing classes. He lives with his wife,
artist Sylvia Nitti and their two children, Brooke and Chase.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART
Northeastern State University,
Oklahoma
NSU
Art Department