Hatun Arica Hilton

Hatun Arica Hilton was born in Mersin and at the age of six, she moved to the United States, where she studied architecture and design. She has worked as an art dealer, interior designer, poet and artist since 1985. Whether it is visual art through paintings or the poetic expressions of language and music, every aspect of Hilton’s life is geared towards one form of art melding into another.

As an artist, her interest lies in the expression of light and shadow, in the infinite and inexhaustible combinations of a visually aesthetic and spiritual language that transcends worlds. Specifically, she explores free organic forms through the layering and sensual deployment of color, as well as to bring pleasure to the eye by evoking the rich, spectral underpinnings of the simplicity and richness of the earth and its universal counterparts.

In addition to being an artist and poet, Hilton is the President of the Poetry Center of Chicago. Her first book of poetry, The Seven Faces of Love is due to be released in January 2011. Currently, she lives and works in Chicago.