Trenton Doyle Hancock

Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock draws from personal experience, art historical canon, comics and superheroes, pulp fiction, and myriad pop culture references to create subversive narratives that speak to universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and all the grey in between.
In this dynamic talk, presented in conjunction with My HomeCourt, Hancock will reflect on his vivid “Moundverse” mythology and his new mural commission. Get inspired by Hancock’s insights and perspectives on storytelling, play, and community engagement through both studio and large-scale projects.

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Presented by My HomeCourt with the RISD Museum and RISD’s Painting Department.

My HomeCourt is a nonprofit organization, based in Providence, RI, with the mission to foster community engagement through the revitalization of basketball courts and city parks facilitated by cutting-edge Contemporary art.

Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Hancock’s prints, drawings, and collaged-felt paintings work together to tell the story of the Mounds—a group of mythical creatures that are the tragic protagonists of the artist’s unfolding narrative. Each new work by Hancock is a contribution to the saga of the Mounds, portraying the birth, life, death, afterlife, and even dream states of these half-animal, half-plant creatures. Trenton Doyle Hancock was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, one of the youngest artists in history to participate in this prestigious survey. His work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. The recipient of numerous awards, Hancock lives and works in Houston, where he was a 2002 Core Artist in Residence at the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Kate M. McNamara is a curator and educator based in Providence, RI, with a deep commitment to collaboration, alternative art spaces, and fostering cross-disciplinary dialogue. She is the inaugural Executive Director of public art organization My HomeCourt. McNamara currently holds the interim role of John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director at the Carpenter Center at Harvard, and she is also the founder of ODD-KIN, a contemporary art space in East Providence dedicated to experimental programming and artist-driven inquiry.