Hilary Pecis (b. 1979) is a Los Angeles-based contemporary painter known for her vivid still lifes, interiors, and landscapes that transform ordinary scenes into vibrant, pattern-rich compositions. Working within the vital Los Angeles art community that has become one of the most consequential contemporary art centers in the world, Pecis has developed a distinctive personal vocabulary that translates the everyday visual environment into paintings of unusual chromatic and decorative confidence.

Pecis pursued her formal artistic training at the California College of the Arts, where she earned both her undergraduate and graduate degrees. This solid grounding in the Bay Area's rich contemporary art culture shaped her development at a formative moment and gave her the technical foundation for the mature practice she would build after relocating to Los Angeles. Her paintings emerged into wider public visibility during the 2010s and have since attracted an enthusiastic international collector base.

Her characteristic subjects, flowers arranged in vases on cluttered tables, sunlit interior corners of her own home, densely packed bookshelves, dining tables set with fresh fruit, and warm hillsides bathed in California light, are treated with an approach that heightens rather than merely records the observed world. Working with saturated color, densely layered pattern, and a strong sense of surface design, Pecis pushes her subjects toward the register of pure painterly celebration. Wallpapers, textiles, tilework, ceramics, and floral forms are treated with the compositional care traditionally reserved for more overtly ambitious subjects, and her paintings often function simultaneously as intimate personal documents and as ambitious formal compositions.

The traditions Pecis draws on run deep in modern painting. Her practice sits within the lineage that reaches back through Bonnard, Vuillard, and Matisse to the great tradition of decorative modernism, and it engages simultaneously with contemporary conversations about pattern, color, domestic space, and the ongoing possibilities of representational painting. Pecis is represented by Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York and other significant galleries, and her paintings have entered important private collections drawn to the combination of visual pleasure, painterly craft, and warm sensibility that runs through her mature practice.