Visiting Artist Lecture Series—Visual Arts MFA—Columbia University
Visiting Artist Lecture Series—Visual Arts MFA—Columbia University

Feb. 5, 2013: TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK

Las Luces, Looses, and Losses, 2005
Mixed media on canvas
60 3/4 X 60 3/4 X 4 inches

Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from East Texas State University, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art in 2000.  Hancock attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1997.  Hancock lives and works in Houston, where he was a 2002 Core Artist in Residence at the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  He has received numerous awards including:  Joyce Alexander Wein Award, S.J. Wallace Truman Fund Prize, Penny McCall Foundation Award, Artadia Foundation Award, and Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.  Trenton Doyle Hancock was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, one of the youngest artists in history to participate in this prestigious survey. His work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus School of Art and Design, Columbus, OH; The University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; as well as others.  Hancock has had four solo exhibitions at James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY as well as numerous other galleries in the United States, Singapore, Italy, and Scotland.

 

Vegans and Mounds in the Forest
Production still from Ballet Austin’s Cult of Color: Call to Color
A collaboration by choreographer and Ballet Austin artistic director Stephen Mills, visual artist Trenton Doyle Hancock and composer Graham Reynolds
Photo: Tony Spielberg

More information can be found here:

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New York Times, “An Artist’s New Direction and the Bathroom Tile” by Michael Hoinski, 2012

Additional articles and reviews on James Cohan Gallery website

Meddler, 2008
Mixed media on paper
23 X 19 1/2 inches