Nicky Hoberman | |
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Born | 1967 Cape Town |
Education | Parsons School of Design Chelsea College of Art and Design |
Alma mater | Worcester College of Oxford University |
Occupation(s) | Art historian, painter |
Nicky Hoberman (born 1967) is a South African-born, London-based fine artist/painter whose style includes the use of photorealism combined with caricature, and illogical figures on a background of flat, even spaces.
Early life and education
Nicky Hoberman was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967. She attended Worcester College of Oxford University from 1986 to 1989, where she received an MA in Modern History. From 1989 to 1993 she went to the Parsons School of Design in Paris and received a BA in Fine Art. In 1992 Hoberman attended the Yale Summer School of Art in the USA, and received an MA in Painting from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, where she attended from 1994 to 1995.
Career and honors
In 1996 Hoberman was selected for the 1996 New Contemporaries at the Tate Liverpool. She was also included in Saatchi’s "New Neurotic Realism" exhibition in 1998. She has had solo exhibitions at Feigen Contemporary in New York and the Entwistle Gallery in London.
Bibliography
- Mick Finch, Stuart Morgan, Nicky Hoberman, Entwistle, London, 1998.
- Susan Hitch, Gianni Romano, Nicky Hoberman, Gabrius, Milan, 2002.
- Nicky Hoberman, Hiromi Suzuki, Art Out of the Box: Creativity Games for Artists of all Ages, Lawrence King, London, 2019.
References
- "Nicky Hoberman". Artodyssey. Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- "Nicky Hoberman". Brooklyn Museum. Archived from the original on 18 September 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
- "Bibliography". Nicky Hoberman. Archived from the original on 7 February 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- "1996 / Artists – Nicky Hoberman". New Contemporaries. Archived from the original on 24 April 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
- "Nicky Hoberman". AskArt. Archived from the original on 22 February 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- Glueck, Grace (22 March 2002). "ART IN REVIEW; Nicky Hoberman". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
- Hall, James. "James Hall on Nicky Hoberman". ArtForum. Archived from the original on 29 November 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
- 1967 births
- Living people
- Photorealist artists
- South African women painters
- South African contemporary artists
- Artists from Cape Town
- Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford
- 20th-century South African painters
- 21st-century South African painters
- 20th-century South African women artists
- 21st-century South African women artists
- 20th-century women painters
- 21st-century women painters