An independent consultant and artist working on a variety of art projects, Hunter was the Executive Director of the Stonewall National Museum and Archive in Fort Lauderdale, FL.  Previously, he was the head of the College Art Association, the largest professional association supporting art historians and visual artists in the world. Prior to that, he was the founding Director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, the only art museum devoted exclusively to artwork that speaks to the LGBTQ experience.

Prior to joining Leslie-Lohman, Hunter was the Director of the Foundation for Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Prior to that, he led two renowned artists’ residencies programs, having served as the President of Anderson Ranch Arts Center outside of Aspen, CO, and Director of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, the largest residency program for emerging artists and writers in the United States. The Fine Arts Work Center permanently endowed a Fellowship in his name.

Hunter has a long career of non-profit board and community involvement. He is the past board chair of the Alliance of Artists Communities, the national membership organization for artists’ residency programs. Hunter graduated from Boston College and received his law degree from Suffolk University. 

Along with Mischa Gawronski and the Bob Mizer Foundation, he is presently working on a book of images and essays about the American artist Harry Bush due out in 2026 (Verlag Kettler).

Artist Statement
My work, conceptual in nature, is about reuse and history and delves into established visual culture often incorporating appropriated imagery, text and ideas.  In particular, it reflects gay male sensibility along with American abstract and color theory paintings, especially from the 20^th century.  My love of paintings makes them an object of my art making practice.  My desire (need?) to tell the story of marginalized folks, especially queer ones, is of great interest.  I seek to recognize icons and reproduce them.

CV
(b. 1955) Warwick, Rhode Island
Current residence:  Pompano Beach, Florida
Instagram: hohanian
H393@aol.com
HunterOHanian.com
617-962-9208

Education
Boston College, BA, 1977
Suffolk University, JD, 1984
Leadership Conference for Massachusetts Cultural Leaders at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2006
Aspen Leadership Seminar, Aspen Institute, 2008
Florida Atlantic University, MFA (60+), in progress

Solo Exhibitions
2025 – The Studios of Key West, Key West, FL
Recent Juried Group Exhibitions
2025 – Studio Door Gallery, San Diego, CA
2024 – View Arts Center, Old Forge, NY
2024 – 34th Annual All Florida Juried Art Show, Stuart, FL
2024 – R3SI$T! Exhibition, Old Walls Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2024 – Naturalist Gallery Flow Exhibition, District of Columbia
2024 – 46th Annual Juried Exhibition, Arts Council of Wayne County, Goldsboro, NC
2024 – Connect Exhibition, Art League of Rhode Island, Pawtucket, RI
2024 – prideARTBerlin – UNBOUND, Berlin, Germany
2024 – Studio Door Gallery, Seventh Annual Proud Exhibition, San Diego, CA
2024 – New York Center for Photographic Arts, New York, NY
2024 – Modern Visual Arts Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
2024 – Griffin Museum – Photography, Members Juried Exhibition, Winchester, MA (reviewed in Boston Globe)
2024 – Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum/Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Forum 49 Exhibition, Provincetown, MA
2024 – Parker Art Center, Parker, CO
2024 – Coral Springs Art Museum, Coral Springs, FL
2024 – Broward Art Guild, Seeing Red Exhibition, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2024 – Foto Forum, Santa Fe, NM
2023 – Attleboro Museum of Arts, Attleboro, MA
2023 – Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI
2023 – Studio Door Gallery, Sixth Annual Proud Exhibition, San Diego, CA
2023 – Old Town Arts and Crafts Guild,  Peconic, NY
2023 – Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, NC
2023 – Jones Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2023 – Fine Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2023 – Sedona Art Center, Sedona, AZ (second place award)

Charitable Exhibitions
2025 - Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
2024 - Provincetown Art Association Members' 12 x 12 Exhibition
2024 - Big Bend Cares, Tallahassee, FL
2024 - Massachusetts College of Art Annual Auction, Boston, MA
2023 - Postcards for Palestine, Czechia
2022-2024 - Wilton Arts, Wilton Manors, FL
2017-2026 - Visual AIDS Postcards from the Edge, New York

Publications
Self Portraits by Others (2013)
Stroke, From Under the Mattress to the Museum Wall (2015)
Reprobate Sense - The Illustrated Version of Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah (2015)
Amos Badertscher: Images and Stories (Phaidon 2025)

Exhibition Curation and Organization
Organized more than 100 exhibitions working with and/or presenting work by Amos Badertscher, Louise Bourgeois, George Condo, Robert Giard, Michael Mazur, Robert W. Richards, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, and many others.

Art Management
1996-2022 CEO/Director of Stonewall National Museum and Archives (Fort Lauderdale), College Art Association (New York), Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (New York), Massachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation (Boston), Anderson Ranch Arts Center, (Snowmass Village, CO) and Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA).

Organized more than 500 weeklong workshops and visual arts and creative writing. Participated in more than 100 presentations and professional panels.

Recent  Projects
2020 - The Souls Around Us, The Work of Amos Badertscher, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
2021 - Juror, Florida Humanities Council, Tallahassee, FL
2021 - Curator, Queer History, NOVA University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2023 - Juror, Center for Contemporary Arts, Bedminster, NJ
2023 - Contributor, Lost Boys - The Work of Amos Badertscher, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
2023 - Curator, Queer Pioneers - The Work of Robert Giard, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
2023 - Presenter, ONE Institute Circa Festival - The Work of Amos Badertscher and David Hurles, Los Angeles, CA
2024 - Panelist, Florida State Council for the Arts, Tallahassee, Fl
2024 - Contributor, OUT News Tonight, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2024 - Essayist, Horns Magazine, Mapplethorpe and Rimbaud
2024 - Essayist, Horns Magazine, The Devil, Pagans and Queers
2024 - Presenter, Ringling Museum Wonder Symposium, Sarasota, FL
2024 - Presenter, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries Annual Conference, virtual
2024-  Presenter, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2024 - Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC
2024 - 2025 Consultant, Strategic Planning, Fundraising and Collection Management, Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
2024 - Essayist, James Bidgood (Salzgerber & Co - Berlin)
2025 - Curator, The Work of Daniel Kane, South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD 
2025 - Solo exhibition, The Studios of Key West
2025 - Curator, A Homosexual Renaissance - Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago, IL
2025 - Curator, A Homosexual Renaissance - ArtsUnited, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2025 - Panelist, Institute of Museum and Library Services
2025 - Presenter, Ringling Museum Wonder Symposium, Sarasota, FL
2025 - Essayist, Horns Magazine, Gay Renaissance
2025 - Essayist, Horns Magazine, Gay Pulp Fiction
2025 - Essayist, Redlist, Berlin, Germany
2025 - Presenter, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2025 - Presenter, Queer Archives University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 
2025 - Curator, Clifford Chance, The Work of Robert Giard, New York, NY
2025 - Presenter, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY
2025- Co-Curator, Unveiled Visions, Wilton Manors, FL
2025 - Essayist, Ohm Phanphiroj Desire, (Salzgerber & Co - Berlin)
2025 - Essayist, Horns Magazine, Devil and Demons - Works of Olaf Odegaard

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