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Biography
Violet Hopkins (born 1973, El Paso, Texas) is an American painter who lives and works in Los Angeles. She holds a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.
Hopkins has exhibited her paintings internationally, including Uschi Kolb Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; Claremont Museum of Art, CA; Gallery Sora, Tokyo; Galeria Moriarty, Madrid; BaliceHertling, Paris; Rubell Family Museum, Miami; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London; Peres Projects, Berlin; Deitch Projects, New York; David Zwirner Gallery, New York; CRG, New York; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo. In 2007 she was awarded the Art Production Fund Giverny Residency Program, France.
Her 2009 solo exhibition at New York's Foxy Production gallery was based around the 1977 Voyager space program. Time Out concluded that "Violet Hopkins’s latest paintings won’t blow your mind... [but] her project acknowledges art’s challenge to interact with a vast, ever-changing world."
Hopkins' work is included in major collections, including Jumex Collection, Mexico City; the Sender Collection, New York; Rubell Family Museum, Miami; the Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Selected coverage
Tumlir, Jan. " Los Angeles: Drawing in L.A." The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection - Raisonné. MoMA, New York. 2009: 26 - 35.
Walleston, Aimee. "Ground Control." Interview online, May 26, 2009.
Griggs-Saito, Katrina. "Violet Hopkins: Lux, Lumen." The Japan Times, May 29, 2008.
Patterson, Tom. "A Profusion of Pleasure." Winston-Salem Journal, 31 December 2006.
Spiegler, Marc. "LA Art Is Here To Stay." The Art Newspaper, 8 December 2006: P.1.v
Wagner, James. "Violet Hopkins at Foxy Production." jameswagner.com, 7 November 2006.
Brooks, Amra. “Violet Hopkins.” Artforum, September 2006: 385-386.
Pagel, David. "Summer Sampler Has a Dark Side." The Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2005: E26.
Finkel, Jori. "First Come the Dealers, and Then the Diplomas." The New York Times, 3 July 2005: 22-23.
Cotter, Holland. "Dealers Gather at the River, Convenient to Lofts with Bare Walls." The New York Times, 11 March 2005: E46.