Hunt Slonem’s fascination with exotica imprinted during his childhood in Hawaii and experience as a foreign exchange student in Nicaragua.  Since 1973, he has lived and worked in New York City in his legendary loft with 70 tropical birds populating the labyrinthine studio.  So enmeshed and unique are his aviary, studio, lifestyle and painting, that Slonem has developed an eccentric style and remarkable maturity as an artist. 

His work depicts a reverence for exotic life forms, birds, butterflies and flowers.  Once a painting has been completed with visual stories and compositional balancing acts, he inscribes the surface with a furiously cross-hatched mesh of lines, cutting through the rich oil to give an abstract, painterly and tactile effect with an implied impression of spatial depth.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 

2008
Marlborough Gallery New York, NY
     
2007
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Instanbul, Turkey
The Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL
Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
Olin Gallery, Roanoke, Salem, VA
Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL
George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Opelousas Museum of Art, Opelousas, LA
Wasmer Gallery, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH
Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL 
          
2005
Evansville Museum of Art & Science, Evansville, IN
Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
Galerie Von Stechow, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Von Stechow, Duesseldorf, Germany
Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM / Scottsdale, AZ
Heriard Cimino Gallery New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Harmon-Meek, Naples, FL
Phillips Gallery, Rockport, TX
     
2004
Marlborough Gallery New York, NY
Louisiana Museum of Art & Science, Baton Rouge, LA
Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
Heriard Cimino Gallery New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Handsel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Harmon-Meek, Naples, FL
Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Millenia Gallery, Orlando, FL
     
2003
Morgan Gallery, Kansas City
Harmon-Meek, Naples, FL
Handsel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Alva Gallery, New London, CT
Ten High Street, Camden, ME
     
2002
Marlborough Gallery New York, NY
Vanier Gallery, Tuscon, AZ
McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Handsel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Heriard Cimino Gallery New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
Harmon-Meek, Naples, FL
Paula Brown Gallery, Toledo, OH
     
2001
Marlborough, Anguilla, British West Indies
McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Harmon-Meek, Naples, FL
Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
Mariella Gonzalez Lerena Galeria de Arte, Punta del Este, Uruguay
Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
     
2000
Marlborough Gallery New York, NY
Marlborough Gallery, Boca Raton , FL
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires , Argentina
Vanier Fine Arts, Scottsdale , AZ
Harmon-Meek, Naples, FL
Heriard Cimino Gallery New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
 
 
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
 
2007
BlackBook : December/January 2007  
HouseBeautiful : January 2007  
Absolute : February/March 2007 No. 10  
New York Observer : March 26 2007  
Elle Decor : April 2007  
Kunst Ist Essen Ist Kunst  
Men.style.com (video)
   
2006
InStyle Home : September 2006  
Art & Antiques : September 2006  
Hudson Valley Magazine : September 2006  
Gotham : Summer 2006  
Jeanerette Enterprise : May 24, 2006  
The Daily Iberian : May 24, 2006  
St. Mary & Franklin Banner Tribune : May 12, 2006  
FashionDaily : March 28, 2006  
Drive Magazine : 2006  
Antiquariato : March 2006   
Desert Post Weekly : March 2, 2006   
Scottsdale Republic : March 16, 2006   
ArtNews : March 2006   
Florida Design : Vol.16 No.1, March 2006   
Architectural Digest : February 2006  
   
2005 
Art in America : March 2005  
Art of the Times : February 2005  
American Butterflies : Winter 2004  
Elle : February 2005  
   
2004  
Elle Italy : December 2004 
Architektur & Wohnen : December 2004 
Madame : November 2004 
LASM Quarterly : 2004 
Gotham : November, 2004 
New York Sun : September 30, 2004 
New York Times : July 22, 2004 
International Herald Tribune (Re-Print of July 22nd, NY Times) : July, 2004 
Marie Claire fashion shoot for Jennifer Lopez : September 2004 
NY Social Diary : November 8, 2004  
   
   
2003
Vanity Fair - Stephanie Seymour Article : November 2003 
Elle Decor : November 2003