John Hathorn, Professor

Born in 1954 in Oxford, Mississippi, John Hathorn completed B.A. and M.Ed. degrees at the University of Mississippi, and received his M.F.A. from Florida State University. He is Professor of Painting and directs the B.F.A. Senior Seminar in the Department of Visual Arts at UL Lafayette where he has taught since 1982. He has also taught in the University Paris Study Abroad Program on four occasions between 1990 and 2010, extending his travel in England, France, the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain. He has had fifteen solo gallery and museum exhibitions and has participated in numerous group exhibitions including the New Orleans Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Center and Ogden Museum in New Orleans. Hathorn has been the recipient of grants through the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and was selected as a Visual Arts Fellow through the Louisiana Division of the Arts. In 2008 he was selected as a Distinguished Professor at the University. He is represented by the Craighead Green Gallery in Dallas where an exhibition of his work entitled The Cardinalis Sketches was shown in January and February, 2012. He is also represented by the New Gallery in Houston, Texas. In February through April of 2013 the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, Louisiana, will host a thirty-year retrospective of the artist’s work. A catalog will accompany the exhibition.

Email: john.hathorn@louisiana.edu