Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Morgan Hobbs is an artist from Kansas City, Missouri. She was raised in a guarded Evangelical community and homeschooled until 10th grade. After high school, Hobbs studied historical and prehistoric archaeology in conjunction with her fine arts training. Now living in Philadelphia, these investigations take on new meaning and urgency, and through her art practice, Hobbs seeks a deeper understanding of the visions and symbols depicted around her - specifically, the interplay of cultural and political ideology and how symbols can be disconnected from their origins and redeployed in new contexts to convey new meanings.
Morgan Hobbs has shown her paintings and sculptures both regionally and nationally, including at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn; The Front in New Orleans; Satellite Projects in Miami; Art Market Hamptons in Water Mill, NY; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, and Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia. She has presented her work and writing at Mount Gretna School of Art; Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX; Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia; Pennsylvania College of Art and Design; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; the National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Ogden, Utah; and more. In 2012 and 2020, she attended Vermont Studio Center as an Artist in Residence, and in 2020, she was awarded a Hemera Contemplative Fellowship. In 2024, she was on the 10 Under 40 list for the University of Central Missouri Alumni Awards.
Hobbs is a graduate of the Masters of Fine Arts program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) and the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the University of Central Missouri. In 2015, Hobbs co-founded AUTOMAT Gallery, an artist-run collective and gallery space based in Philadelphia. She has since curated and juried exhibitions at Mercer County Community College, Moore College of Art & Design, Art on Avenue of the States, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, AUTOMAT and beyond. Hobbs was the Assistant Director at Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia from 2020 - 24. She now owns and operates Structure and Form Artist Services, building artist websites, managing social media accounts and more.