Nicky Hoberman Explained

Birth Date:1967
Birth Place:Cape Town
Education:Parsons School of Design Chelsea College of Art and Design
Occupation: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.[1] She attended Worcester College of Oxford University from 1986–1989, where she received an MA in Modern History.[2] From 1989-1993 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 1994-1995.[3]

Career and honors

In 1996 Hoberman was selected for the 1996 New Contemporaries at the Tate Liverpool.[4] She was also included in Saatchi’s "New Neurotic Realism" exhibition in 1998.[5] She has had solo exhibitions at Feigen Contemporary in New York[6] and the Entwistle Gallery in London.[7]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nicky Hoberman. Artodyssey. 10 February 2016. 15 February 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160215221616/http://artodyssey1.blogspot.co.il/2013/05/nicky-hoberman.html. dead.
  2. Web site: Nicky Hoberman . Brooklyn Museum . 12 September 2023 . 18 September 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230918224525/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/about/feminist_art_base/nicky-hoberman . live .
  3. Web site: Bibliography. Nicky Hoberman. 10 February 2016. 7 February 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160207043957/http://www.nickyhoberman.com/sitemap/. live.
  4. Web site: 1996 / Artists - Nicky Hoberman. New Contemporaries. 28 May 2018. 24 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180424071324/http://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/artists/nicky-hoberman. live.
  5. Web site: Nicky Hoberman. AskArt. 10 February 2016. 22 February 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160222050313/http://www.askart.com/artist/Nicky_Hoberman/11040203/Nicky_Hoberman.aspx. live.
  6. Web site: Glueck . Grace . ART IN REVIEW; Nicky Hoberman . The New York Times . 18 September 2023 . 22 March 2002 . 28 January 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180128214255/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/22/arts/art-in-review-nicky-hoberman.html . live .
  7. Web site: Hall . James . James Hall on Nicky Hoberman . ArtForum . 18 September 2023 . 29 November 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221129033204/https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/199901/nicky-hoberman-50476 . live .