Kyrin Hobson

 

Kyrin Hobson (UChicago MFA 2023) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and museum professional. Her paintings and installations investigate the visual language of philosophical, juridic, and social constructions of race in the Americas. Interest areas intersect around reproduction, history and health equity. Through the lens of motherhood, the work centers body movement, kinship, hybridity, ecologies of care, and the ways in which women aggregate, transfer and utilize power.

For more than two decades, Hobson has specialized in the fieldwork of Black cultural continuity, working across disciplines of child-rearing, dispensation of mother-wit, education and visual art. Her efforts have been supported by UChicago Art/Science Collaboration Initiative, Minnesota State Arts Board, Sustainable Arts Foundation, AS220 and the Millay Artists Colony. Kyrin’s vision and leadership have contributed to exhibition programs of the South Side Community Art Center (Chicago), Museum for African Art (NY), The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History and the Leadership Advisory Committee of the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

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A tall, curvy pink print attached in the corner of a wall. In the center is a jar hanging from a sun sculpture attached at the top. At the bottom is tutu like material and a white bowl.

Requiem After the Storms. 2023. digital collage, porcelain, hog gut, radio antennas, silk, magnalite pot, encaustic on glass, enamel basin, sugar, fish vertebrae and two found pigs. Photo by Bob.

 
2 naked women at the edge of a river. One is holding a fish hook suspended from a string in the sky. 2 children are sucking on her nipples. The background is murky but vibrant in a pain evoking way.

This Bridge Called My Back. 2023. oil on linen. Photo by Bob.

 
2 naked women holding spears. One has a turtle impaled on the end of her spear. The background is vibrant, colors spilling into each other. A hog is on the left, and a bare tree is on the right.

Cowan. 2022. oil on linen. Photo by Bob.

 
A naked woman with a spear and a hook is on the right and a turtle like creature is biting the hook. The creature is emerging from a basket with eggs in it. Above the scene is a hippo's head and two breasts raining milk.

Cowan II. 2022. acrylic on linen. Photo by Bob.

 
4 naked women, 3 behind one that is leading them beside a river. A small cat is behind the leading one and behind them is a gray figure running amidst a white background. On the right is a bare tree. The colors in the whole scene are blended.

Of Skin and Pelts. 2023. oil on linen. Photo by Bob.