Claire Hooper(b. 1978, London, UK) is a British multidisciplinary artist living and working in Marseille, France.
Through painting, textile, moving image, installation, and writing, Hooper investigates the connections between internal and external terrains. This mediums often cross-over one another, as seen in her large-scale painting-as-installation murals.
Her approach is informed by mythology and sociology. She is interested in the connections between contemporary experience and feminist discourse with ancient sites, cultures, and historical narratives.
Hooper is a recipient of the 2023 Deutsche Bank Art & Culture Commission. She has exhibited and has haad her work screened internationally, with solo exhibitions include Hekate, Hollybush Gardens, London (2021); Claire Hooper, The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art (2016); She Knocked Aggressively at The Door, She Shouted Aggressively at the Gate, ANDOR Gallery, London (2016); Clay as Bread and Dust as Wine, Hollybush Gardens, London (2016); Claire Hooper, Bonner Kunstverein, Germany (2014); and Claire Hooper, Vanity Projects, New York (2013).
Group exhibitions include The Mardin Biennale, Turkey (2015); Regional, International and Extra Terrestrial, Mars Gallery, Los Angeles (2015); Songs of the Swamp, WUK, Vienna (2011); New Narrative, Digital Arts Centre, Taipei (2011); and Koln Kunstfilm Biennale, Kunstwerke, Berlin (2010).
