Meet Giselle
Giselle Hobbs is an artist based in New York and in 2023-2024 was a Fulbright Scholar in Painting at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She creates large-scale illusionistic paintings that probe the relationship between humans and the natural environment while taking into consideration a range of cosmologies from various periods and geographical locations. Her practice is in constant dialogue with other media such as photography, Eco- and BioArt, as well as projections and installations that sometimes include moving images and audio. She is a graduate of Cornell University where she earned her MFA at the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. In 2022, she was awarded the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship for Painting; her artwork was also selected for the Council for the Arts award and was featured at the museum’s Biennial. Hobbs has also received other art prizes including the Kable Russell Award and the Ulysse Award for Outstanding Achievement in Fine Arts. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, and her works are found in private collections in the US and abroad, including at the University of Cambridge.