Nicky Hoberman (British b.1967)
Nicky Hoberman's style is a mixture of photorealism and caricature, illogical figures contrasted against even and flat backgrounds interpreted only through their clothes, expressions, and poses. She is perhaps most famous for her effective investigation of the concepts of isolation, identity, and individuality through her art.
Nicky Hoberman has an MA in Modern History from Oxford University, a BFA from Parsons and an MA from Chelsea School of Art. She lives and works in London. She was selected for the 1996 New Contemporaries at Tate Liverpool and included in Saatchi's New Neurotic Realists. She has been in group shows at the Chicago MoCA, Sydney MoCA, Melbourne National Gallery of Victoria and Magasin 3, Stockholm. She has had 3 solo shows at Feigen Contemporary, New York.
Public collections include
The Bernardo collection, Museum of Modern art, Sintra, Portugal
Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
The Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall
Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Osaka, Japan
The Saatchi Collection, London, England
Nigel Moores Charitable Foundation, Liverpool, England
Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, Vail, CO
Bibliography
Nicky HOBERMAN, Nicky Hoberman, E-Gabrius, 2002
Solo Exhibitions
2008, Hof and Huyser, Amsterdam, Holland; Gow Langsford Galllery, Auckland, New Zealand
2007, Far side of the Moon, Mudimadrie Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2004, Nicky Hoberman - Playtime - 20.21 Galerie Edition Kunsthandel GmbH, Essen, Germany and KINZ, TILLOU + FEIGEN (ex Feigen Contemporary), New York City, NY.
2003, Mario Diacono at Ars Libri, Boston; Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago.
2002, Nicky Hoberman - KINZ, TILLOU + FEIGEN (ex Feigen Contemporary), New York City, NY.
2001, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1999, Feigen Gallery, New York, NY; Bewitched, Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland.
1998, Entwistle, London, England; Truly Scrumptious, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA.
1997, Chrysalis, Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milan, Italy.
1996, Sweet Nothings, Entwistle, London, England.
Group Exhibitions
2008, Jerwood Drawing Prize, London; Hof and Huyser, Amsterdam.
2007, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
2006, Offspring: Representations of Children in Contemporary Visual Culture, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston.
2005, Life and Limb, curated by David Humphrey, Feigen Contemporary Visual Culture, New York; Fragile, Analix Forever, Geneva,
2004, Out of Place, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Skin Deep, Cook Fine Art, New York; Time Travel, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago; Innocence Found, DFN Gallery, New York.
2003, Dead Bird Show, Whitechapel Project Space, London; Prospect Drawing Prize, Truman Brewery, London; Interview with Painting, Foundation Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice.
2002, Jerwood Painting Prize Exhibition, London; Jerswood Drawing Prize, London.
2001, New Works, Feign Contemporary, New York; Unexpected: Stages of Regression, Biagiotti Arte Contemporanea, Florence.
2000, Helmhaus Zurich, Zurich, Germany; Girl, The New Art Gallery, Walsall.
1999, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris; Painting Lab, Entwistle, London.
1998, The Painting Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Head, Houldsworth Fine Art, London, England; Alice, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England; Me and You, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, England; Juvenescence, Chapman University, Orange, CA; Works from the Collection II, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden; The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, England.
1997, Heathrow Airport, Heathrow, England; Pictura Britannica: Art from Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (traveling); Strangely Familiar, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England (traveling); My Little Pretty, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
1996, Remaking Reality, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England; Christa Schubbe Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany; Vision Fest, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England; Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London, England; The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England; New Contemporaries, Tate Liverpool and Camden Art Centre, London, England (catalogue)