Hilary Greenstein is a fine artist, educator, cat mom, and karaoke fiend working out of the California Building in Northeast Minneapolis. She received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2013.

I am a figurative painter interested in memory, defiance, and gendered social power dynamics. I work to challenge the patriarchal history of painting. I do this by sourcing my femme figures from strangers’ personal photos, and occasionally my own body, mining our collective, intimate histories for heroines and surrogate selves. Through intentional use of gaze, color, and materials, I queer and shapeshift my subjects into abstract environments.