Artist David Hoffos
Title Snowmobile and Crevasse
Media mixed media in shadowbox
Dated
2000
Size 8.5 x 11.5 x 2.75 in. / 21.6 x 29.2 x 7 cm.
Sold $2,500
Estimate $900 - $1,200
Notes
bears artist's name, title and date on gallery label verso; framed
Provenance
TrepanierBaer Gallery, Calgary, label verso; private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
David Hoffos ~ [b.1966] Canadian
D. Hoffos was born in Montreal and grew up in a string of cities in Ontario, Alberta, and Australia. Hoffos entered the Department of Art at the University of Lethbridge in 1990 where they received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1994. Since 1992, Hoffos has maintained an active practice - with over 40 solo exhibitions, including a survey at the National Gallery of Canada. In 2009 their 6-year installation series, Scenes from the House Dream debuted at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, before a national tour which included the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, the Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto. In 2014, Hoffos completed permanent public sculpture projects in Grande Prairie and Lethbridge. Hoffos has led international residencies, twice at the Banff Centre. They have received awards including the Images Grand Prize, 2007, and the inaugural Sobey Art Award (2nd place), 2002.
listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website