Scott Hocking
2024 Stepping Stone Grantee
Bio
Scott Hocking was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1975, and grew up in the working-class township of Redford. Since 1996, he has lived and worked as an artist in Detroit. He’s a 6th generation Detroiter, descended from Polish immigrants and Cornish copper-miners who settled in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Over the past 28 years, Hocking has created over 40 large-scale sculptural installations and public artworks, received 22 awards and fellowships, and participated in over 150 exhibitions worldwide. Most recently, Hocking’s mid-career retrospective was held at Cranbrook Art Museum (2022-2023), he was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation fellowship (2022-2026), and his exhibition "The Reliquary Room & Other Scenes from Detroit" opened at Trotter & Sholer gallery in New York City (2024).
Artwork details
Bone Black
, 201935 abandoned boats, fiberglass, wood, steel, Bone Black pigment, and various mixed media240 × 969 × 384 inches
Floating Citadel
, 2019Cast bronze, stainless steel, concrete180 × 132 × 132 inchesCommissioned by the Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority (DRCFA) Art Foundation. Permanently installed in front of Huntington Place (formerly Cobo Hall) in Downtown Detroit.
Arkansas Traveller
, 2020Galvanized steel windmill, steel, iron, Bone Black pigment216 × 144 × 456 inchesOriginally created for the Crystal Bridges Museum exhibition State of the Art 2020.
The Celestial Ship of the North (Emergency Ark) aka The Barnboat
, 20151890s Barn, barn wood and artifacts, wood, steel, and various mixed media480 × 240 × 720 inches
Vicksburg-Voltri
, 2023Found objects, steel, iron, wood, concrete, and various mixed media240 × 500 × 1200 inchesSite-specific installation of 80+ sculptures created inside the 400,000 sq ft Lee Paper Mill in Vicksburg, Michigan
Bone Black, 2019. 35 abandoned boats, fiberglass, wood, steel, Bone Black pigment, and various mixed media. 240 × 969 × 384 inches.
