LaToya M. Hobbs | |
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| Education | Purdue University, (MFA, 2013) University of Arkansas at Little Rock (BA, 2009) |
| Awards | 2020 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize (2020) Artist in Residence at Joan Mitchell Center (2020) Artist Travel Grant, Municipal Art Society of Baltimore (2019) |
| Website | latoyamhobbs.com |
LaToya M. Hobbs is an American painter and printmaker best known for her large-scale portraits of Black women. She was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. She earned her BA from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and her MFA from Purdue University. Hobbs moved to Baltimore, Maryland later in her life, where she works as a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She gained recognition for her portraiture and figurative imagery in the 2010s, receiving several travel grants and awards.