Bio

Born in 1982 in Durham, UK
Lives and works in Philadelphia, USA

Bea Huff Hunter is a British American artist whose woven works investigate the grid as both modernist structure and bodily experience. Working in plain weave with inlay and lace on hand-dyed cotton and linen, she makes slow, tactile work that emerges from the organizing logic of the loom and the intuitive thought of the hands.

After training in fine art at Chelsea College of Arts, London, Bea Huff Hunter earned an MA in art history from the University of York, where her archival research focused on Agnes Martin. She spent many years as an art critic — contributing to Artforum, Frieze, and Art in America, and serving as a contributing editor of Art Papers — before returning to her studio practice. Her critical-creative writing has been installed as part of exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.

An active participant in her adopted city’s arts community, Bea Huff Hunter served on the board of storied nonprofit artist collective Vox Populi from 2017–21. She has organized exhibitions and performances at artist-run spaces including Grizzly Grizzly, Little Berlin, and Vox, and as the museum’s digital editor, curated online projects for the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania.