CV
Education
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Graduate Studies, 1988
Syracuse University, BFA, 1981
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Ebb & Flow, ArtWalk Gallery, Hartford, CT
2020 Indigo Waves, Fisher Gallery, FVAC, Avon, CT
2019 Downstream, Real Art Ways, Inc., Hartford, CT
2017 Travelogue, TheaterWorks Gallery, Hartford, CT
2016 Waterside Reveries, Schumacher Gallery, Westover School, Middlebury, CT
2014 River/Sea, Vernon Community Arts Center, Vernon, CT (catalogue)
2014 Caught in the Trees, Green Street Art Center, Middletown, CT
2014 Travelogue, EBK (small works) Gallery, Hartford, CT
2013 Travelogue. John Bryan Gallery, Farmington, CT
2011 Meanderings & Reflections, 100 Pearl Street Gallery, Hartford, CT
2010 Glimpse, Arnold Arboretum, Boston, MA
2007 Glimpses of Nature, Stevens Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2006 The Night for the Day, EBK Gallery, West Hartford, CT
2005 Elegy, John Bryan Gallery, Farmington, CT
2001 Tree : Line : Pattern, John Bryan Gallery, Farmington, CT
2000 My Lost Dreams, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
Projects
2014 Through the Static and Distance (Site Specific Installation), River/Sea Exhibition, VCAC, Vernon, CT
2010 River Canyon (Site Specific Installation). New Haven City Wide Open Studios Alternative Space
2009 little birds of my dreams (Site Specific Installation) for Made Spaces, Chapel St., New Haven, CT
2006 Shadow Room (Site Specific Installation). New Haven City Wide Open Studios Alternative Space
2002 Continuum (Site Specific Installation). Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Paper Made, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2023 Art of the Book & Paper, 12th annual, Central Library of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2023 Nature’s Way, ODETTA digital, Online - Artsy2023 PhotoBookWorks 2023, Spark gallery, Denver, CO
2023 Entry Point, ODETTA digital, Online - Artsy
2022 Serious Play, ODETTA digital, Online - Artsy
2022 Books on the Verge, Mark Twain Library, Redding, CT
2021 Books on the Verge, Gallery@Metro, Bridgeport, CT
2021 Page-Turner, ODETTA digital, Online - Artsy
2020 Essential Works, ODETTA digital, Online - Artsy
2020 Pandemic Proof, ODETTA digital, Online - Artsy
2020 True Blue, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2020 Paper As Metaphor, Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, CT
2019 Freed Formats: the book revisited, Traveling Exhibition
Ridgefield Guild of Artists & Mark Twain Library, Ridgefield, CT; Putnam Arts Council & Mahopac Library, Mahopac, NY; Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT; Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2018 Paper Possibilities: Order & Chaos, Drezner Gallery, FVAC, Farmington, CT
2017 Sensing The Surround, Perspectives Gallery, Whitney Center, New Haven, CT
2017 No Language, No Streets, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2017 Defining Ourselves Through Nature, Fourth Corner Foundation Gallery, Windham, VT
2017 Paper Possibilities, Drezner Gallery, FVAC, Farmington, CT
2016 Real Party 40th Anniversary, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2015 Ritual. Reading Room, HBHQ, Philadelphia, PA
2015 EBK Gallery @ Real Art Ways, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2015 By Night, 6 Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT
2014 Artworks @Artspace, Artspace Gallery, Hartford, CT
2013 Sophisticated Absurdities, Paris in Plantsville Gallery, Plantsville, CT
2012 As It Ever Was, AT(O)M Space, Hartford, CT
2010 Forest for the Trees, Gallery 46, Rockville, CT
2010 FLOCK, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2009 Cron/Hocker, Gallery 195, New Haven, CT
2009 Dispersion, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2009 Index I, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2009 Current Connecticut, Paper New England, Hartford, CT
2009 Sustainable?, CCSU Art Gallery, New Britain, CT
2008 Touring Connecticut with CT Artists, CCCT Gallery, Hartford, CT
2006 HyperOrganic, Ga11ery 11 Whitney, Hartford, CT
2004-2005. Art From Connecticut Forests, Traveling Exhibition
Charter Oak Cultural Center Gallery, Hartford; Lyman Allyn Museum, New London; Kellogg Environmental Center Gallery, Derby; Greenwich Audubon Society Gallery, Greenwich; The Silo Gallery, New Milford
Awards
2023 2nd Prize, Paper Made, Fiber Arts Now Magazine
2020 Connecticut Artist Fellowship
2017 Fellowship, Artist’s Resource Trust, Berkshire Taconic Foundation
2013 Creation of New Work Initiative Grant, Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation, Inc
2010 Finalist for Tunxis Community College Art-.in-Public-Spaces competition
2008 Greater Hartford Arts Council New Boston Fund Individual Artist Fellowship
Commissions & Collections
2022 3 Year Exhibition, Art in Embassies, Benin
2018 Permanent Collection of Bergen Hospital, Bergen, NJ
2015 Permanent Collection of White Plains Hospital, New York, NY
2013-2019. Permanent Collection of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centers, New York, NY
2010 Permanent Collection New Alliance Bank, New Haven, CT
Bibliography
Laurencia Ciprus, Barbara Hocker’s Meditative Media, Ink Magazine, July 2023
Freed Formats: the book revisited, Catalogue, March 2019
River/Sea, Catalogue, September 2014
Studio Visit Journal, volume 5, page 75, April 2009
Teresa Karmel, Far and Near, the Chronicle, Sept 27, 2007
guest on Artists and Authors interviewed by Erica Pagliuco, CTV14, first aired in April 2005
Lisa Brisson, From one giant oak, many visions are born, Connecticut Life, July 2004
A.bacus Issue #125: Pattern Poems, Potes & Poets Press, Oct 1999
Steven Starger, Barbara Hocker, Art New England, Apr/May 1999
Steven Starger, Exhibit result of artist’s shattered peace, Journal Inquirer, Jan 8, 1999
Matt Damsker, A Meditative Response to Road-building Disruption, The Hartford Courant, Jan 15, 1999
Patricia Rosoff, Grit and Grace, The Hartford Advocate, June 12, 1997
Miles Unger, Barbara Hocker: Embodied Verse, Art New England, Oct/Nov 1995
Michael Rush, Surrealist Affinities, Art New England, pril/May 1995
Raymond Smith, Surrealist Affinities, Catalogue, The John Slade Ely House, 1994