Hodge, Robert Leroy (b. 1979)
Found 1 Works by this Artist
(b. 1979)
Houston, TX
Robert Hodge (b. 1979, Houston) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice reflects
themes of memory and commemoration. Grounded in the rich continuum of African
American history and cultural expression, Hodge’s work celebrates resilience and
reclamation, with his commemorations of African American musical and cultural icons
serving to both preserve the past and illuminate the present. With a nod to sampling
culture and Rauschenberg’s principle of working in the gap between art and life,
Hodge’s collage-based works pair urban detritus and found objects with cut-out
images, lyrics and other signifiers of the African-American experience, forming a duality
of meaning wherein fragments of everyday urban life become conduits of artistic
expression.
Hodge, who grew up in Houston’s Third Ward, studied visual art the High School for
Performing and Visual Arts prior to attending the Pratt Institute in New York and the
Atlanta College of Art. His work has been exhibited in national and international
institutions including Baltimore Museum of Art; Saint Louis Art Museum; Schirn
Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Cincinnati Art Museum; Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, ON);
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA); Houston Museum of African American
Culture; Project Row Houses (Houston, TX); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Artpace, San Antonio; New Gallery of Modern
Art (Charlotte, NC); and Contemporary Museum of East Africa (Nairobi, Kenya). He was
an artist-in-residence at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2024); AI.R. Pittsburgh
(2022), Yucatan Artist Residency at Casa Ocea (2021), Lawndale Arts Center (2018-19),
Artpace, San Antonio (2017); the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New Orleans (2015); and
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine (2014), and has received grants
from Artadia, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Houston Arts Alliance and The Idea Fund.
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