Keiran Brennan Hinton was born in 1992 in Toronto, ON.  He graduated from Pratt Institute in 2014 with a BFA in Painting and completed his MFA in Painting / Printmaking at the Yale School of Art in 2016.   Since 2016, he has maintained a steady studio practice in New York City.

An RBC Painting Competition finalist in 2018, Hinton will be included in an upcoming 2021 group exhibition I am Here, Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Solo exhibitions have most recently included, Una Finestra sul Cortile / Rear Window at Francesco Pantaleone Gallery in Palermo, Close at Hand at 1969 Gallery in New York, Matter of Fact, at Mulherin Toronto.

Hinton has attended the James Castle House Residency in Boise, ID, the Macedonia Institute in Chatham NY and has been awarded the Gloucester Painting Prize and Residency, Yale International Student Scholarship, Outstanding Merit in Painting from Pratt Institute and a Presidential Scholarship from Pratt Institute. The artist currently lives and works between Toronto and New York.

b. 1992 Toronto, ON

Education

2014 – 2016, MFA, Yale University, CT

2010 – 2014, BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Solo Exhibitions

2020           A Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON

2019            Una Finestra Sul Cortile/Rear Window, Francesco Pantaleone Gallery, Palermo, Italy

2019             Close at Hand, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY

2018             Extending the Day, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY

2017             Matter of Fact, Mulherin NY, New York, NY

2014             Open House, NO Foundation, Toronto, ON

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020 Adventure Painting, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY

2019 Give It To Me Good, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY

2019 A Private Matter, LM Gallery, Latina, Italy

2019 With Feeling, Ground Floor Contemporary, Birmingham, AL

2019 Summer Forecast, Dianna Witte Gallery, Toronto, ON

2019 Gestures of Comfort, Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, QC

2019 I <3 Paint, Patel Gallery, Curated by Kim Dorland, Toronto, ON

2019 Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair, 1969 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2018 RBC Painting Competition Finalist, Power Plant, Toronto, ON

2018 Standing Still, James Castle House, Boise, ID

2018 Inside Out, FPAC, Milan, IT

2017 Untitled Art Fair, Mulherin, Miami, FL

2017 Timeshare, Duplex @520W 28th Street, New York, NY

2017  Close Quarters, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY

2017 Nocturne Earshot Clock Error, Mulherin Toronto, ON

2016 Onsite Katonah, Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester, NY

2016  The Chappaqua Wall, Sherry b Studio, Chappaqua, NY

2016 Group Show, 6b.ASE, Bronx, NY

2016 Partners, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY

2016 Sunrise / Sunset, Infinity Room, Los Angeles, CA

2016 Double Dip, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT

2016 New Genealogies, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT

2015 Second Coming, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT

2015 Art Toronto, Katharine Mulherin, Toronto, ON

2015 Large Works, FRONT art space, New York, NY

2015 Affordable Art Fair, FRONT art space, New York, NY

2014 Yale School of Art Silent Auction, FRONT art space, New York, NY

2014 First Things, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2014 One or More, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Curated by Stephen Maine, Brooklyn, NY

Institutional Exhibitions

2021 I am Here, Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON

2018 Standing Still, James Castle House, Boise, ID

2018 Dynamic Intimacy, Kean University, Union, NJ 2016

2016 Onsite Katonah, Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester, NY

Awards and Honors

The Atlanta School Residency, Atlanta, ID

RBC Painting Competition Finalist, Power Plant, Toronto, ON

The Macedonia Institute (upcoming), Chatham, NY

James Castle House Residency, Boise Department of Arts and History, Boise, ID

Gloucester Travel Fellowship, Yale University, Gloucester, MA

Yale International Scholarship, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Outstanding Merit Award, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Presidential Scholarship, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY