BIOGRAPHY
Hester, an emerging, mid-career artist originally from North Carolina, has works included in the permanent collections of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the Allen Memorial Art Gallery at Oberlin College, the Newark Public Library, and the New York Public Library. Hester loves mountaintop views, fresh fruit pies with friends, yoga, French rap and his son.
CV
Satellite Art Show, Miami, December 2023
Satellite Art Show, New York City, June 2024
Cabada Contemporary, Washington DC, November 2024
Tokyo International Art Fair, November 2024
Studio Kura, Fukoka, Japan, December 2024 (Artist-In-Residence)
Brown Gallery, Duke University, Durham NC, January 2025
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, January 2025 (Artist-In-Residence)
Chateau Orquevaux, February 2025, Troyes, France (Artist-In-Residence)
STATEMENT
Nate Hester is interested in exploring the power of play as a form of protest. Hester’s unapologetic pop-punk, Southern gothic, streetstyle magic realism mines the charming if disquieting incongruities of the places, communities and bodies to which we all yearn to belong – calling forth the playfulness and curiosity of his own inner child – ultimately proclaiming that everything belongs to everything.
