Hunt Slonem

Considered one of the great colorists of his time, Hunt Slonem’s neo-expressionist paintings feature an exuberant and bold, fauvist palette to emphasize his beloved menagerie of animals. Through the application of lavish, lush colors, Slonem’s painterly style continues to be fresh and innovative bordering on Pop Art aesthetics. Depicting his signature motifs of repeating whimsical animal imagery, mainly bunnies, birds, and butterflies, the artist’s devotion to nature and its inhabitants are apparent.

Born in Kittery, Maine in 1951, Hunt Slonem graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Painting and Art History from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Slonem later attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, where he was exposed to influential artists from the New York area including Alex Katz, Alice Neel, Richard Estes, Jack Levine, Louise Nevelson and Al Held. This exposure played a pivotal role in Slonem’s artistic career, as it aided in his decision to move to New York in 1973.

Since 1977, Slonem has had over 250 solo exhibitions at prestigious galleries. Museums, both domestic and international, have collected his work, among them Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Whitney, the Miro Foundation, and the New Orleans Museum of Art.

His work has been exhibited globally, including in Madras, Quito, Venice, Gustavia, San Juan, Guatemala City, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Stockholm, Oslo, Cologne, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. His work has been shown in thirty-one different museums including the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1981; the Museo Diocesano d'arte sacra Sant'Apollonia in Venice, Italy, in 1986; the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Georgia, in 2007; the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2007; Museo de Arte de El Salvador in San Salvador, El Salvador, in 2010; the National Gallery for Foreign Art in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 2010; the Alexandria Museum of Art in Alexandria, Louisiana in 2011, the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida in 2012, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2015, and the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2017, among others.

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  Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2025

  March 20 - March 23, 2025
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  HUNT SLONEM X NOTABLE.ART: The Hunt Slonem Experience

  May 09 - June 09, 2024
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  ART MIAMI 2023

  December 05 - December 10, 2023
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  SPRING SELECTIONS

  May 24 - June 30, 2023
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  FOR THE LOVE OF PAINT

  November 11 - December 24, 2022
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  Hunt Slonem: Totems

  October 29 - December 11, 2021
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  LOOK FORWARD | LOOK BACK

  January 15 - March 13, 2021
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  HUNT SLONEM: A MENAGERIE OF WONDERS

  October 25 - January 11, 2020
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  HUNT SLONEM: BUNNIES, BIRDS, and BUTTERFLIES

  September 23 - November 11, 2017
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  Expressionist Tendencies: Paintings by Ken Elliott, Hunt Slonem, and Linda Touby

  February 14 - March 28, 2009
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  HUNT SLONEM: WHERE NATURE MEETS ART

  September 26 - November 09, 2024
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  ART MIAMI 2024

  December 03 - December 08, 2024