Austin Parkhill is an artist living and working in the wilds of Alaska. He has exhibited his artwork nationally, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. Prior to his time in Alaska, the artist resided in Colorado and Boston, MA.
HONORS/AWARDS:
Connie Boochever Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts - Painting, 2015
Alaska State Council on the Arts, Career Opportunity Grant, 2018, 2012
Adaptation and Innovation Grant, Alaska State Council on the Arts, 2021
Finalist, Outwin-Boochever National Portrait Competition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Oct. 2009 to Aug. 2010
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
some spark (solo) - HCOA, Homer, AK - October 2024
HORIZONS - CREATURES - Supersonic Art - 2023
De Bestis Insularum - IGCA, Anchorage, AK - August 2023
Alaska Biennial - Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK, 2022 - 2023
Alaska Biennial - Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK, 2020 - 2021
Year in Review - Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO, December 2019
#UNSELFIE (solo) - Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO, April - May 2019
All Alaska Biennial - Anchorage Museum/Pratt Museum/Alaska Museum, AK, October 2018 - December 2019
Aiviq and Nanuq - Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK, October 2018 - May 2019
5x5 (group) - Abend Gallery, Denver CO, July 2018
Intercurrents: The Alaska Treaty of Cession - International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK, October 2017
Delusional (group) - Jonathan LeVine Projects, Jersey City, NJ, August 2017
Inextricable (solo) - ARC Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, January-March 2017
Recent Works - Out of the Arctic (solo), HCOA, Homer, AK, July - September 2016
Bears: Contemporary Images of the Ursidae (group) International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK, June 2016
Relate North (group), University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, November-December 2015
SUPER HUMAN (group), Plus Gallery, Denver, CO, July-August 2014
Where’s North? (group), Where’s North Arts, 632 Hudson, West Village, New York, NY, September - October 2013
At Your Best (solo), Plus Gallery, Denver, CO, November 2012 - January 2013
Art Takes Times Square (group), Times Square Billboards, New York, NY, June 2012 (“Hannah” featured)
Faces (group), The Arvada Center, Arvada, CO, June-August 2012
Emerge (group), 101/exhibit Gallery, Miami, FL, April-May 2011
Outwin-Boochever National Portrait Competition (juried group), Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., October 2009 - September 2010.
Emerging 4 (juried group), Vertigo Gallery, Denver, CO, January-March 2010
Highlight exhibition (solo), Autonomy Arts Gallery, Denver, CO, April-June 2009
Making Faces (solo)- CoCOA Gallery- Ft. Collins, CO, December 2008
SELECTED PRESS/PUBLICATION:
Birdy Magazine - multiple issues, 2021-2023
The Ice Highway (article) - by Austin Parkhill - Popular Mechanics Magazine, April 2018 (writing and photography) - https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/g18930165/ice-highway-barrow-alaska/
New American Painting - Issue 102 - New American Paintings, The Open Studio Press, 2012
American Art Collector- A Trip Back To The Future (Tribeca Flashpoint Academy), image of ‘Ashley,’ March 2011
Denver Syntax- Arts Magazine, Feature Article, Winter 2010/2011
Pictures of the Day, USA Today.com- piece ‘J&H’, Oct. 26th, 2009 (also featured on Wall Street Journal.com, N.P.R.com, BBC.com, among others)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Anchorage Museum
Tullman, Chicago IL
Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska
Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital
City of Homer, Alaska
