Nicky Hoberman (born 1967) is a South African-born, London-based fine artist/painter whose style includes the use of

photorealism Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. Although the term can b ...

combined with

caricature A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be either insulting or complimentary, ...

, and illogical figures on a background of flat, even spaces.

Early life and education

Nicky Hoberman was born in

Cape Town Cape Town is the legislature, legislative capital city, capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. Cape Town is the country's List of municipalities in South Africa, second-largest ...

, South Africa in 1967. She attended

Worcester College Worcester College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms was ad ...

Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...

from 1986 to 1989, where she received an MA in

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. From 1989 to 1993 she went to the

Parsons School of Design The Parsons School of Design is a private art and design college under The New School located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art ...

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 Chelsea College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, a public art and design university in London, England. It offers further and higher education courses in fine art, graphic design, interior design, prod ...

in London, where she attended from 1994 to 1995.

Career and honors

In 1996 Hoberman was selected for the 1996 ''New Contemporaries'' at the

Tate Liverpool Tate Liverpool is an art gallery in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and part of Tate, along with Tate St Ives, Cornwall, Tate Britain, London, and Tate Modern, London. The gallery was an initiative of the Merseyside Development Corporatio ...

. She was also included in Saatchi’s "New Neurotic Realism" exhibition in 1998. She has had solo exhibitions at Feigen Contemporary in New York and the Entwistle Gallery in London.

Bibliography

*Mick Finch, Stuart Morgan, ''Nicky Hoberman'', Entwistle, London, 1998. *Susan Hitch, Gianni Romano, ''Nicky Hoberman'', Gabrius, Milan, 2002. *Nicky Hoberman, Hiromi Suzuki, ''Art Out of the Box: Creativity Games for Artists of all Ages'', Lawrence King, London, 2019.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoberman, Nicky 1967 births Living people Photorealist artists South African contemporary artists Artists from Cape Town Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford 20th-century South African painters 21st-century South African painters 20th-century South African women painters 21st-century South African women painters