Education
Spring 2019
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking
Minor in Sculpture and Extended Media
Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA
Grants & Awards
2019 VCUarts Painting and Printmaking Senior of the Year
2018-2019 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship
Solo Exhibitions
My Nightmares Haven't Adjusted to the Yuppie Lifestyle Yet
Red Amp Audio | 9 W Grace St, Richmond VA
Open Reception: 5-8pm, October 4, 2019
On View: October 4- November 30, 2019
Hard Times IV
Anderson Gallery | 907 1/2 W Franklin St, Richmond, VA
Opening Reception: 5-7pm, October 13, 2017
On View: October 12-25, 2017
Bad Company
FAB 305 Gallery | 1000 W Broad St, Richmond VA
Opening Reception: 5-8pm, February 17, 2017
On View: February 16-26, 2017
Two and Three Person Exhibitions
CHAG-RIN
Two-person show with Ryan Dorsey
Circle Thrift & Art Space
400 W Broad St, Richmond VA
Reception: 6-8pm, June 7, 2019
On View: June 6- July 3, 2019
Three-person show with Madison Holt and Claudia Vincent
FAB 305 Gallery
1000 W Broad St, Richmond VA
Reception: 6-8pm, October 18, 2017
On View: October 16-21, 2017
Group Exhibitions and Performances
In Search of Charm- We Were Once Proud Creatures
Westover Place
5075 Forest Hill Ave. Richmond VA
Reception: 5-8pm, April 13, 2019
On View: April 13-21, 2019
https://arts.vcu.edu/paintingprintmaking/2019/04/05/senior-exhibition-reception/
Workhouse Arts Center- Vulcan Gallery | 9518 Workhouse Rd, Lorton, VA
Reception: 6-8pm, July 14, 2018
On View: May 19- August 5, 2018
http://www.workhousearts.org/event/vmfafutures/
Embrace the Wrong
Virginia Interactive
119 W Broad St, Richmond, VA
Opening Reception: 5-8pm, December 1, 2017
On View: November 26, 2017- March 19, 2018
In Over Our Heads…
FAB 3rd Floor
1000 W Broad St, Richmond VA
Opening Reception: 5-7pm, November 30, 2017
On View: November 29- December 7, 2017
Cary St Gym- The MAC | 101 S Linden St, Richmond, VA
Run Time: 9-11:50am, November 21, 2017
http://arts.vcu.edu/sculpture/sparts/
Keep on Truckin’
Anderson Gallery
907 1/2 W Franklin St, Richmond, VA
Opening Reception: 6-8pm, November 11, 2017
On View: November 11-17, 2017
Body of Work
Curated by Tim Williams
Anderson Gallery | 907 1/2 W Franklin St, Richmond, VA
Run Time: 8-9pm, July 7, 2017
Performing History
FAB Lobby
1000 W Broad St, Richmond VA
Opening Reception: 6-8pm, March 23, 2017
On View: March 22- April 3, 2017
http://arts.vcu.edu/sculpture/performing-history/
38th Annual Rappahannock River Waterfowl Show
White Stone Firehouse
578 Chesapeake Dr, White Stone, VA
Opening Reception: 6-8:30pm, March 17, 2017
On View: March 17-19, 2017
VCUarts Undergraduate Fine Arts Juried Exhibition
Anderson Gallery
907 1/2 W Franklin St, Richmond, VA
Opening Reception: 5-8pm, March 25, 2016
On View: March 24- April 3, 2016
Bio
Born in White Stone, VA
Lives & works in Richmond, VA
Noah Hook is an interdisciplinary artist from White Stone, Virginia. He currently lives and works in Richmond, Virginia; where he received his BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University. He received a 2018 VMFA Undergraduate Fellowship and was named the 2019 VCU Painting and Printmaking Senior of the Year. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Anderson Gallery, Workhouse Arts Center, Westover Place, and the FAB 305 Gallery. He is also the Co-Director of the Rump Gallery, a rusty shed turned art space in his back yard, where he hosts and curates exhibitions by artists from around the country.
I am an artist exploring the ways pride and shame, privilege and disempowerment, growth and stagnancy, and faith and fear intertwine to affect people, populations, and the places they inhabit. With subjects such as whiteness, masculinity, sexuality, poverty, heritage, and violence at the forefront of my analysis; I examine my upbringing and current life in order to understand my place within history and our contemporary political landscape.
Through primarily video, painting, an sculpture I trace the histories and mythologies that combined to form the subjects (ranging from my own family to crab monsters living in the swamp) that I choose to examine. Often using my childhood home or surrounding marsh environment as a backdrop or stage for my characters; I examine the location’s perpetual state of deterioration, which I find to epitomize the self-proclaimed redneck culture I was raised in. By assigning worth to things such as oysters, stains, rope, and antlers; I am able to eliminate or further enforce dynamics of power. Antlers function as a symbol of perceived pride and dominance, while stains are signs of neglect and time moving on. These systems of power and value allow for comparisons to the real life systems that my work mimics and deviates from. I also examine the spaces I now find myself in – primarily upper class, institutional, white wall art spaces. I’m considering my relationship to these vastly different environments, and drawing out the many prejudices they hold against each other.
In short, I’m taking important memories, stories, relationships, and points of view from my life and injecting them into objects or fictitious beings for short periods of time. It’s my way of trying to make sense of things, with the hopes that my work can lead to discussions that tie into issues of a much larger scale.
Talks
VMFA: FUTURES Panel Discussion
Workhouse Arts Center- Vulcan Gallery |
9518 Workhouse Rd, Lorton, VA
6-8pm, July 14, 2018
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant
2019 VCUarts Summer Intensive Program
Morgan Herrin's 2D/3D groups
July 2019
Curatorial Experience
Rump Gallery
Co-Director and Curator