Lillian Bayley Hoover

Lillian Bayley Hoover



EDUCATION
2005 MFA Interdisciplinary Maryland Institute College of Art, Mount Royal School of Art
2002 BFA Painting University of North Carolina, Asheville (Magna Cum Laude, Distinction in Art,
University Research Scholar)

Lillian Bayley Hoover earned her BFA from the University of North Carolina, Asheville and her MFA from the
Maryland Institute College of Art. She has taught studio art and art theory courses for colleges and universities in
the Baltimore area since 2006. Hoover’s work has been featured in exhibitions in the Baltimore area and beyond,
and was recently profiled in New American Paintings and the Little Patuxent Review. In 2012, Hoover won the
Bethesda Urban Partnership’s Trawick Prize. She has received many other honors, including the Bethesda Young
Artist Painting Award, two Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, and a grant from
Philadelphia’s Center for Emerging Visual Artists—enabling her to conduct research and photograph in Istanbul,
Turkey. Hoover has been selected as a semifinalist for Baltimore's Sondheim Prize on three occasions.




PROFESSIONAL AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2012 Trawick Award, Bethesda, MD
Sondheim Prize Semifinalist, Baltimore, MD
Bethesda Painting Award Semifinalist, Bethesda, MD
2011 Trawick Award Finalist, Bethesda, MD
Bethesda Painting Award Semifinalist, Bethesda, MD
New American Paintings profile, juried exhibition in print, issue #94
2009 Bethesda Young Artist Painting Award, Bethesda, MD
Trawick Award Semifinalist, Bethesda, MD
2008 Center For Emerging Visual Artists Travel Grant, Philadelphia, (to Istanbul, Turkey)
Bethesda Painting Award Finalist, Bethesda, MD
Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award: Painting
2007 New American Paintings, cover and profile, juried exhibition in print, issue #69
Sondheim Prize Semifinalist, Baltimore, MD
Center For Emerging Visual Artists Housing Grant, Philadelphia, PA
Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award: Sculpture
Bethesda Painting Award Semifinalist, Bethesda, MD
2006 Sondheim Prize Semifinalist, Baltimore, MD
2006-2008 Fellow at The Center For Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Undergraduate Research Travel Grant, UNC-Asheville
2002 S. Tucker Cooke Scholarship in Painting, UNC-Asheville
Undergraduate Research Grant, UNC-Asheville
2000 Walter Ogilvie Scholarship in Painting, UNC-Asheville