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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