Bette Cerf Hill Biography
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Bette Cerf Hill is an artist working in acrylic on canvas and charcoal on paper. Often the format is large and in a variety of styles to suit the subject and mood. She usually works on a series of paintings and drawings about subjects ranging from what she calls renaissance faces to making portraits of stones.

Hill started art training as a child in California and later in Paris and New York. She attended School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied both ceramics and painting.

Selected Exhibitions
Vogue or Before The Genocide

Paintings by Bette Cerf Hill at Thomas Masters Gallery
June 20 - July 7, 2009

This series of paintings are of two groups of people. One group called the Omo live in East Africa on the border of Ethiopia, Kenya and the Sudan and the second are the Nuba people of Kau in the Sudan.

Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Not Just Another Pretty Face, October 28-December 28, 2008.

Old Chatham Gallery, NY , One Person Show, Nov. 1-30
May Street Market Restaurant, One Person Show, May-Dec. 2007

Peace Tower with Mark di Suvero, Chicago Cultural Center
May Street Market Restaurant, Chicago, 2006

Sensory Vistas, Exploring Landscapes of the Mind, Hubbard Street Galleries
Political, SHK Gallery, Great Barrington, Mass

The Last Leaf, Gallery 210
One Inspired Evening, The Chicago Cultural Center
Christian Industrial League Invitational, Chicago
Renaissance Faces, Gallery 210
Shrouds, Weber Gallery, Chatham, New York
Doors of Dignity, Red Door Studio, Chicago
Lee Tracy Studio - 2003, 2004, 2005
The School of the Art Institute, alumni show, Bare Walls 2003, 2004, 2005
Women Alive, Archeworks, Chicago, 2003
The Joseph Show 20th Century Gallery, Hudson, NY 2002
Ute Stebich Gallery Lenox, Mass. 2001, 2000, 1999

Permanent Installations
Robert A. Wislow, US Equities Reality, Board Room, Chicago
Hyde Park Herald, Chicago
The Three Arts Club of Chicago

Publications
Chinese Style, Living in Beauty and Prosperity by Sunamita Lim
Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Guan Yin With Cell Phone


Education
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, ceramics and painting
The Grande Chaumier, Paris, France, painting

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