Hilary Brace

Hilary Brace is an illustrator and textile artist who lives and works in Santa Monica, California. Her intimate drawings emerge from an explorative process of suggestion and discovery. Working with a sophisticated Jacquard loom and unusual combinations of reflective and luminescent threads, Brace achieves what she calls a “light reactive surface,” so that the pieces change in response to the light source or the position of the viewer—alive, like light in nature.

Brace received her MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 1985. Her work has been exhibited in many galleries and museums including Edward Thorp Gallery, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Museum, Boise Art Museum, Ben Maltz Gallery, and Moorpark College Art Gallery. Brace is also the recipient of several awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Drawing, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, and the California Arts Council Fellowship.