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