Candace Hill-Montgomery
Candace Hill-Montgomery (born February 9, 1945) is an American writer and artist. She works in photography, mixed-media collage, and watercolors. She was born and raised in Queens, New York City. According to Hill-Montgomery, her mother was a strong supporter of her artistic development. She attended Fordham University (B.A., 1977) and Hunter College (M.A., 1981). While an undergraduate, in 1979, Hill-Montgomery was artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and exhibited her work at Artists Space. She was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1981, and a  Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985. In the 1980s, she exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the New Museum, Franklin Furnace, Fashion Moda, and the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 1985, Hill-Montgomery curated a solo exhibition of Lorna Simpson's work with Lucy R. Lippard titled "Working Women/Working Artists/Working Together." She participated in the "Race and Representation" exhibition at the Hunter College Art Gallery in 1987. She has published essays in the "Woman's Art Journal". Her work is now in the New Digital Archive Museum. In May 2019, Candace Hill-Montgomery's collection was exhibited  at the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum. Artist's work. Candace Hill-Montgomery's art works use elements of fabric and poetry to convey social issues through the usage of humor and satire. The topics covered in her artworks are racism, poverty and feminism, migrants and refugee children. In particular, her art piece "Free Dom with Purchase" (a reference to a famous brand of champagne - Dom Pérignon) portrays a Harlem woman who runs a restaurant business to help her local community. For this particular art work, Candace Hill-Montgomery utilized tablecloth and napkins with poetry written on them. Candace Hill