Damien Hoar de Galvan

Damien Hoar de Galvan was born in Northampton, MA, in 1979. Graduating from Green Mountain College in 2001 with a degree in behavioral science, he began making art soon after and in 2008 graduated with a post-baccalaureate certificate from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Since then, he has been living and working around the Boston area and showing throughout the country. In 2019, he was included in 100 Sculptors Of Tomorrow published by Thames & Hudson, and in 2020 was featured in New American Painters vol. 146, chosen by Jerry Saltz. In 2025, he received the James and Audrey Foster Prize from the ICA Boston, curated by Tessa Bachi Haas.

Photo: Mel Taing

I think this work plays with, grapples with and is imbued with themes of: time, anxiety, capitalism, beauty, color, ennui, zooming in, zooming out, centrism, decay, no-mind, trophies, keeping on, acceptance, contradiction, absurdity, humor, happenstance, waste, balance, and hopefulness. — Damien Hoar de Galvan

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