Statement

Kinesthetic empathy (working responsively to movement) is the core of my practice. Each work I create is a threshold of embodiment. Paintings and installations evidence movements of both artist and subject, detailing processes of making fused with emotional impacts of how and why we move. Through this method, I explore kinship, hybridity, ecologies of care, and the ways in which women aggregate, transfer and utilize power. These explorations cull memories, family histories and interviews, creating body-based and symbolic vocabularies that model new modes of possibility. World building and gesture position the figure to propose wide-ranging Black feminist countervisualities intersecting history, reproductive health equity and constructions of race in the Americas.

Bio

Kyrin Hobson (b. Los Angeles, CA) is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist, educator and museum professional. Her work focuses on the intimacies of embodied cultural experience by combining Afro-diasporic history, social practice and women’s health advocacy.

In 2024 Hobson was Feminist in Residence at Northwestern University and a Visual Art Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago. She is a recent awardee of the Golden Foundation for the Arts Residency.

Hobson’s work been supported by the University of Chicago Arts, Science and Cultures Initiative; the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry; Minnesota State Arts Board; Sustainable Arts Foundation; AS220; the Millay Artists Residency and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Women’s Art Institute.

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.

Hobson holds a MFA in Visual Art (University of Chicago), MA in Arts Administration and Museum Studies (New York University) and a BA in Studio Art (UCLA).