Halona Hilbertz: HEXEN - Artist Resume

Born in Austin, Texas to German parents, Halona Hilbertz moved to Munich, Germany, at eight years of age. She spent her teenage years in Düsseldorf and later studied Painting and Performance Art at Hochschule der Bildenden Kuenste Saar in Saarbrücken - in that part of Europe that could never quite decide if it was German or French - and at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada.

Now living in Brooklyn, Halona pursues art and music while taking care of her family, animals, plants, homes, an art salon, and her job. Halona’s work has been included in group and solo shows in the U.S., Europe, the U.A.E., China, and Canada. Her art examines empathy; life as it goes hand in hand with death; spiritual connection with the natural world; and humankind’s grappling with its own destructive tendencies. She likes to employ a wide variety of media, concentrating in recent years on making wall objects and paper collages. Halona co-founded Full Tank, an all-female experimental band with all original songs that people either loved or loathed, and her current band Fetzig, also a DIY band.

Halona’s joys include making art while listening to the radio; playing the bass badly and exploring the human voice from within her band; listening to insects on a hot summer night; observing animals as a behavioral scientist might; tending to her back yard in the sun; getting lost in a great book; and dancing.

Selected Shows

2024 Made in the USA (Curated by Edward Goldman)
TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2024 my bloody valentine (Curated by Aaron Zimmerman and Ken Weaver)
14BC Gallery, New York, NY

2023 Dragging Up the Performance: Halona Hilbertz: Pseudo Studio Walk 25 Years Later
Pratt Library, New York / Curated by Elly Clarke, funded by Franklin Furnace, New York, NY

2022 Unlimited Systems II
Streitfeld Projektraum, Munich, Germany

2021 Halona Hilbertz: Fledgling Beasts
Sala Projects, New York, NY

2021 Sommerausstellung
Museum St. Wendel, Sankt Wendel, Germany

2019 Empathetic Dream Construction: Braithwaite, Hilbertz & Roepke
XVA Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2017 Europe in China: Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition from Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Qingdao Sculpture Museum, Qingdao, China

2017 Collectivity: Objects and Associations in the U.A.E. Art World
Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

2014 Curiouser and Curiouser: Halona Hilbertz, Colleen Quigley & Jakob Roepke
XVA Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2011 Rendezvous: Exposition Internationale d’Art Contemporain en Region du Val de Loire
Domaine Saint Hilaire, Roiffe, France

2008 Katja Fratzscher & Halona Hilbertz: Zeichnungen & Objekte (Curated by Anna Schaedlich)
Q-Club, Berlin, Germany

2006 Halona Hilbertz: Wall Dolls / Donn Davis: Collage Paintings
XVA Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2004 P.M.S. /  Women Painters, Musicians and Sculptors
Brooklyn College Art Gallery at the Brooklyn War Memorial, Brooklyn, NY

2003 Everything Must Go (27-Artist Show, Organized and Co-Curated with Donn Davis)
59 Harrison Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

1998 Pseudo Studio Walk (Internet live performance broadcast)
Pseudo Programs, New York / Selected and funded by Franklin Furnace, New York, NY

1997 Kuenstler machen Schilder fuer Rottweil
Forum Kunst, Rottweil, Germany

1996 Halona Hilbertz: und tschuess!
Galerie Gabriele Huehnergarth, Merzig, German

1996 Schlagsahne in die Magengrube (Performance, Artist Book Edition)
Stadtmuseum, Gross-Gerau, Germany / Funded by Initiative GG-1973

1995 393 Jahre Fotografie -10 Künstler x ein Medium
Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken, Germany

1994 Disarming Moments (Performance)
Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Canada

1993 Halona Hilbertz & Christian H. Cordes: Die Wortansammlung
Galerie Gabriele Huehnergarth, Merzig, Germany

1992 Neue Medien - Klasse!
Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken, Germany

Pictured: Halona Hilbertz - Hexe 1 -  Paper and metallic candy wrapper collage on wood panel - 20" x 16" - 2023