Born in 1965 He lives and works dans le Maine (USA)
His large-scale paintings — rendered in acrylic and pastel on raw canvas —explore universal subjects such as identity, community, truth, and memory, and often draw inspiration from his childhood in Compton (California). Starting from a black ground, he develops the scene around his figures with painterly, foggy brushwork, playing with how perception is affected when the descriptive focus is placed not on human agents but on their surroundings. The soft touch of Hodges’s hand, probes the imprecision and tenuous ambiguity of memory.
Hodges studied theatre and film at the University of Kansas. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at, among others, The Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York (2025); Karma, Los Angeles (2025, 2023); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2023–24); Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts (2023); the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, Maine (2021–22), Karma, New York (2021), and Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, Maine (2020, 2019). His work is held in the public collections of lots of American museums (the Met, MoMA, Guggenheim, Withney, Art Institute, among others) and in Europe (Tate Modern in London, Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Stedelijk museum in Amsterdam).