LATOYA HOBBS
ABOUT | WORK | EXHIBITIONS
ABOUT
LaToya M. Hobbs is an artist currently living and working in Baltimore, MD. She received her BA in Painting from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and MFA in Printmaking from Purdue University.
LaToya’s work deals with figurative imagery that addresses the ideas of beauty, cultural identity, and womanhood as they relate to women of the African Diaspora. She creates a fluid and symbiotic relationship between her printmaking and painting practice producing works that are marked by texture, color and bold patterns.
She has exhibited domestically and internationally. Select exhibitions include National Art Gallery of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia; Prizm Art Fair, Miami, FL; The Community Folk Arts Center in Syracuse, NY; Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL; and the Sophia Wananmaker Galleries in San Jose, Costa Rica. Hobbs has been featured in Transition: An International Review, a publication of the W.E.B. Dubois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Her work is housed in private and public collections including the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art; Mosaic Templars Cultural Center; National Art Gallery of Namibia; The Milwaukee Art Museum; and the Getty Research Institute. Other accomplishments include a 2019 Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council, a 2019 Artist Travel Grant awarded by the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore, and she is the recipient of a 2020 Artist in Residence award at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, LA. She was the winner of the 2020 Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. LaToya Hobbs is currently a Professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
WORK
Ndeenda, 2018
Oil, acrylic, & collage on canvas
30 x 24 in
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Queen Nsorma, 2020
Oil, acrylic, & collage on canvas
30 x 24 in
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Birth of a Mother, 2019
Relief print on wood panel with acrylic & collage elements
48 x 72 in
Queen Wawa, 2020
Oil, acrylic, & collage on canvas
30 x 24 in
EXHIBITIONS
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