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'''Nicky Hoberman''' (born 1967) is a South African-born, London-based fine artist/painter whose style includes the use of photorealism combined with caricature, and illogical figures on a background of flat, even spaces.
==Early life and education== Nicky Hoberman was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967.<ref name="Artodyssey">{{cite web|title=Nicky Hoberman|url=http://artodyssey1.blogspot.co.il/2013/05/nicky-hoberman.html|website=Artodyssey|accessdate=10 February 2016|archive-date=15 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215221616/http://artodyssey1.blogspot.co.il/2013/05/nicky-hoberman.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> She attended Worcester College of Oxford University from 1986 to 1989, where she received an MA in Modern History.<ref name=Brooklyn>{{cite web |title=Nicky Hoberman |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/about/feminist_art_base/nicky-hoberman |publisher=Brooklyn Museum |access-date=12 September 2023 |archive-date=18 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918224525/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/about/feminist_art_base/nicky-hoberman |url-status=live }}</ref> From 1989 to 1993 she went to the Parsons School of Design in Paris and received a BA in Fine Art. In 1992 Hoberman attended the Yale Summer School of Art in the USA, and received an MA in Painting from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, where she attended from 1994 to 1995.<ref name="NickyHoberman web site">{{cite web|title=Bibliography|url=http://www.nickyhoberman.com/sitemap/|website=Nicky Hoberman|accessdate=10 February 2016|archive-date=7 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207043957/http://www.nickyhoberman.com/sitemap/|url-status=live}}</ref>{{better source needed| date= September 2023}}
==Career and honors== In 1996 Hoberman was selected for the 1996 ''New Contemporaries'' at the Tate Liverpool.<ref name="NewContemporaries">{{cite web|title=1996 / Artists – Nicky Hoberman|url=http://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/artists/nicky-hoberman|website=New Contemporaries|accessdate=28 May 2018|archive-date=24 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424071324/http://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/artists/nicky-hoberman|url-status=live}}</ref> She was also included in Saatchi’s "New Neurotic Realism" exhibition in 1998.<ref name="AskArt">{{cite web|title=Nicky Hoberman|url=http://www.askart.com/artist/Nicky_Hoberman/11040203/Nicky_Hoberman.aspx|website=AskArt|accessdate=10 February 2016|archive-date=22 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222050313/http://www.askart.com/artist/Nicky_Hoberman/11040203/Nicky_Hoberman.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> She has had solo exhibitions at Feigen Contemporary in New York<ref name="The New York Times">{{cite web |last1=Glueck |first1=Grace |title=ART IN REVIEW; Nicky Hoberman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/22/arts/art-in-review-nicky-hoberman.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=18 September 2023 |date=22 March 2002 |archive-date=28 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128214255/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/22/arts/art-in-review-nicky-hoberman.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and the Entwistle Gallery in London.<ref name="ArtForum">{{cite web |last1=Hall |first1=James |title=James Hall on Nicky Hoberman |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/199901/nicky-hoberman-50476 |website=ArtForum |access-date=18 September 2023 |archive-date=29 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129033204/https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/199901/nicky-hoberman-50476 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Bibliography== *Mick Finch, Stuart Morgan, ''Nicky Hoberman'', Entwistle, London, 1998. *Susan Hitch, Gianni Romano, ''Nicky Hoberman'', Gabrius, Milan, 2002. *Nicky Hoberman, Hiromi Suzuki, ''Art Out of the Box: Creativity Games for Artists of all Ages'', Lawrence King, London, 2019.
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