Luke Hillestad

U.S.A.

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Luke was born in 1982 in Minneapolis MN. In 2006 he left his work as a land surveyor and began painting full time, with Rembrandt and Odd Nerdrum books open next to his empty canvas. Luke immersed himself in apprenticeship, studying with Nerdrum, and traveling to museums and studios around the world to learn from the paintings of the old Masters whose tradition he seeks to follow.

Luke uses the palette of the Ancient Greek fresco painter Apelles, and paints from life using his friends as models, as well as the taxidermied animals he collects on his travels. His paintings illustrate the primal beauty of humans at their best and most noble. Their narratives tend to center around themes of death, kinship, ritual, and interactions with wilderness.

Luke Hillestad is represented by The Rymer Gallery in Nashville, the L'oeil du Prince Gallery in Paris, and Flanders and Rogue Buddha galleries in Minneapolis. His work has also been exhibited in Florida, Chicago, Norway, and Germany.
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• 2016 Myth - Helikon Gallery - Denver, Colorado

• 2016 AEON: Portraits of Youth and Age  -  at Douglas Flanders and Associates - Solo Show

• 2015 Odd Nerdrum and School  - The European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM)

• 2015 Scope Festival in Miami - Copro Gallery Booth

• 2015 Dax Gallery. Costa Mesa, CA. With Odd Nerdrum, Scott Hess and others

• 2015 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery presents 20 Years Under the Influence of Juxtapoz - Group show

• 2015 Rymer Gallery - ANIMA - Solo Show

• 2014 Copro Gallery - "Pupils of Apelles" w/ Odd Nerdrum

• 2014 Douglas Flanders & Associates - Graven Image - Solo Show

• 2014 Co Exhibitions Gallery - Holdfast III: Effigy and Exile - Group Show  

• 2013 Galerie L'oeil du Prince - Group Show - Paris, France

• 2013 The Rymer Gallery - Nashville

• 2013 Hold Fast II - Group Show

• 2012 The Rymer Gallery - Nashville

• 2012 Rogue Buddha Gallery - Parables of Mutation - Solo Show

• 2012 Cult Status Gallery - Vital Flesh - Group Show

• 2011 St John's University - Recognition

• 2011 Head to Toe Salon - Hold Fast - Group Show

• 2011 The Groveland Gallery - Group Show

• 2011 Naples Museum of Art - Group Show - Naples, Florida

• 2011 The Rymer Gallery - What We Carry - Solo Show - Nashville

• 2011 Rogue Buddha Gallery - Group Show

• 2011 Hennes Art Company - Group Show

• 2011 Traffic Zone Gallery - Convergence  - Solo Show

• 2010 Orchard Art House - Group Show

• 2010 Vine Arts Center - Phantom Limb - Solo Show

• 2010 Sotheby's, Edina - Solo Show

• 2010 Thomas Masters - Group Show - Chicago

• 2008 Pasinger Fabrik - Kitschbiennale - Group Show - Munich, Germany

• 2008 Kjell Raugland Gallery - Group Show - Larvik, Norway

• 2008 Homewood Gallery - Solo Show

• 2007 Flanders Gallery - Solo Show



** Shows located in Minneapolis unless specified
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