Hitchcocks current art deals directly with issues of consumption in North America. After the death of his grandparents from cancer, he began a series of prints, digital photos, installations, and drawings. Hitchcocks artworks ask questions about the quality of the United States Department of Agriculture commodity foods distributed by the government for food assistance to indigenous lands, welfare programs, and to third world countries. In his installations and prints, he appropriates the silhouetted logo from the commodities (a cow from a can of beef and a chicken from a package of powdered eggs) to question notions of assimilation and control. These explorations have lead to broader questions about the proliferation of images in popular culture and mass electronic media that inundates our lives daily. What are the societal, psychological, and physiological consequences of globalization? What have we learned from progress? He examines these issues by re-contextualizing images from culture, electronic media, and food to question social and political systems.

JOHN HITCHCOCK is an Artist and Associate Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he teaches screenprinting, relief cut, digital mixed media prints, and installation art. He earned his MFA in printmaking and photography at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas and received his BFA from Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma. He is the recipient of many honors and awards including: the American Photography Institute, National Graduate Seminar Fellowship at New York University, Tisch School of Arts and a Jerome Foundation grant, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hitchcocks teaching experience includes: Assistant Professor of Studio Art at the University of Minnesota, Morris and Visiting Artist at Texas Tech University. His current works are a blend of printmaking, digital imaging, video, and installation that depict personal, social, and political views. Exhibitions of his art works include group shows at TransitARTen - Vogelfrei 5, Kunstentdeckungen in Privatgarten (Darmstadt, Germany), South African Museum (Cape Town, South Africa), Museu de Arte de Brasilia (Brasilia, Brazil), Seacourt Collaborative Press (Bangor, Ireland), IV International Biennial of Photography (Reus Catalonia, Spain), Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago de Chile), Institute of American Indian Art Museum (Santa Fe, New Mexico), New York University Tisch School of Arts (New York), Exit Art (New York), Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, New York), Southern Graphics Council Conference (Miami, Florida), The Print Center (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Anton Gallery (Washington, DC), and American Indian Community House Gallery (New York). Solo shows include: the North Dakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks, North Dakota), the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Oklahoma), University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls, Iowa), Intermedia Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Living Arts of Tulsa (Tulsa, Oklahoma), and Texas Tech University.