If I Were You presents a solo-exhibition of print works by Tyler Bright Hilton. Collaboratively produced during Hilton’s Analog Printmaking Residency with Smokestack’s analog printmaker, Laine Groeneweg, the new series of photopolymer gravure prints on featured display represent a printmaking discipline entirely new for Hilton’s artistic practice. An accomplished practitioner of etching, exploration with photopolymer gravure offered Hilton an exciting expansion of mark-making and imagery possibilities. Developing from a recent series of etchings completed earlier this year, this new collection of works further amplify Hilton’s investigations into imagined realities and the limits of control.

Tyler Bright Hilton earned an MFA from the Chelsea College of Arts (London, UK) and has been the recipient of numerous awards including New Contemporaries and multiple project grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions across North America at C.G. Boerner (New York, USA); DIANA (New York, USA); VIVIANEART (Calgary, Canada); and Macaulay + Co. Fine Art (Vancouver, Canada) and recently as part of Beati Pacifici, The Disasters of War and the Hope for International Peace, Selected Artworks from the Bailey Collection at Chiesa di San Samuele (Venice, Italy) and For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. His work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Archive of Modern Conflict. This is Hilton’s second solo-exhibition with Smokestack Gallery.