Art Fwd: Trenton Doyle Hancock

Join artist Trenton Doyle Hancock for an in-depth exploration of his varied career and current projects. Inspired by the world-building of comics, Hancock’s work iterates over time through the investigation of character, story, and symbols.

Co-presented with the UW School of Art + Art History + Design, Hancock will address his use of popular culture, narrative, and autobiography to subvert cultural tropes and national mythologies. A Q&A with the audience will follow the talk.

Bio

For over two decades, Trenton Doyle Hancock has been constructing his own fantastical narrative that continues to develop and inform his prolific artistic output. Part fictional, part autobiographical, Hancock’s work pulls from his own personal experience, art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references, resulting in a complex amalgamation of characters and plots possessing universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the grey in between.

Hancock’s work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; Menil Collection, Houston, TX; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; il Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea, Trento, Italy; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse, NY; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

About Art Fwd

Art Fwd is a new public lecture series on contemporary art and ideas featuring field-defining artists, curators, and thinkers. In addition to the public talk, invited speakers engage with University of Washington students through studio visits and critiques. Art Fwd is co-presented by the Henry and the University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design.

Accessibility

The Henry strives to be a welcoming and accessible space for all visitors. Assisted Listening Devices (ALDs) and AI-generated live captioning will be available. For additional accessibility information, please visit henryart.org/visit/accessibility or contact Museum Services at 206.221.3850 or info@henryart.org with questions or needs.

Credits

Generous support for this lecture series is provided by the Floyd and Delores Jones Endowed Fund for the Arts and the Endowed Program Support FUNd in Art.