UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The College of Arts and Architecture’s School of Visual Arts will continue its annual Anderson Lecture Series by welcoming visual artist David Hytone on Tuesday, April 7, at 11:30 a.m. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Foster Auditorium located in the Paterno Library.
The lecture series is supported by the John Muller Anderson endowment, which was named in honor of the professor emeritus who was an Evan Pugh research professor of philosophy and the first director of Penn State’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
Hytone is a painter based in Tacoma, Washington. A 2024 McDowell Fellow and finalist for the 2018 Neddy Award in Painting, his work has been featured in several publications including Harper’s, Luxe, Seattle Met, and the final issue of Modern Painters magazine.
Hytone earned his bachelor of fine arts degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design after studying briefly at the Osaka University of Arts in Osaka, Japan. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including shows in Brussels and Ghent, Belgium; New York; Seattle; San Francisco; Minneapolis; Portland; and Des Moines, Iowa.
A recent visiting artist and lecturer at the J. Miller School of Architecture at the University of Indiana, he has work in numerous private and corporate collections.