Kyrin Hobson is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist, educator and museum professional. Her work focuses on the intimacies of embodied cultural experience by combining Afro-diasporic history, social practice, and women’s health advocacy.
In 2024, Hobson was Feminist-in-Residence at Northwestern University and a Visual Art Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago. She is a recent awardee of the Golden Foundation for the Arts Residency. Hobson’s work has been supported by the University of Chicago Arts, Science and Cultures Initiative; the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry; Minnesota State Arts Board; Sustainable Arts Foundation; AS220; and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Women’s Art Institute.
Kyrin’s vision and leadership have contributed to exhibition programs of the South Side Community Art Center (Chicago), Museum for African Art (New York), The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History and the Leadership Advisory Committee of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Hobson holds a MFA in Visual Art (University of Chicago), MA in Arts Administration and Museum Studies (New York University), and a BA in Studio Art (UCLA).