About

About

I’m Becky Huff Hunter, a British, independent art writer and researcher based in Philadelphia, USA.

Becky Huff Hunter is a British writer and researcher based in Philadelphia, USA. Educated at Chelsea College of Art, London; The Open University; and the University of York, UK, Hunter’s MA Art History was funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council fellowship. She has presented research at venues including the Courtauld Institute, London; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; and the Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM.

Since relocating to Philadelphia in 2011, she has curated exhibitions and performance events there concerned with transatlantic, creative exchange. These include “Duett,” Grizzly Grizzly (2012); “Rhythms of Time Sharing,” Vox Populi (2012); and “Reading Room,” Little Berlin (2012). Her chapter “Social-Specific Practice in Philadelphia” in “Artists Reclaim the Commons: New Works/New Territories/New Publics” (University of Washington Press, 2013) explores similar topics. She is a contributing editor of “Art Papers” and her art criticism has appeared in “Sculpture,” “Artforum.com,” “Art in America,” and “MAP,” amongst other publications.

Passionate about building relationships between artistic and research communities, Hunter is a member of the Association of Art Historians Independents Group, UK, and was a writer-member of artist collectives Vox Populi, Philadelphia and Core Gallery, London. Her experimental writing has featured in several exhibitions.