Shana Hoehn (b. 1991, Texarkana, TX)
Shana Hoehn works in sculpture, drawing, and hybrid media to explore themes of agency, embodiment, and transformation. Her work often gestures to transformation—braids that merge into tree roots, fragmented limbs that become architectural ornamentation, bodies that dissolve into landscapes. She mobilizes both traditional and digital fabrication techniques—wood carving, casting, 3D modeling, rubbings, patina—to weave a visual vocabulary rooted in memory, folklore, female iconography, and the haunted topographies of her upbringing in the East Texas swamps and forested regions.
Hoehn earned her MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University and her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, having also studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (UCL) during her undergraduate years.
Her solo and two-person exhibitions include Sleepless (Make Room, Los Angeles, 2025), Mirasol & Shana Hoehn (Houston, 2024), Shudders and Perforations (Deli Gallery, Mexico City, 2023–24), To Look Is to Eat (Jack Barrett, New York, 2023), A Tangle of Limbs and Long Hair (Make Room, Los Angeles, 2022), Folding, Floating, Falling (Art Pace, San Antonio, 2021), and Hauntings (Women & Their Work, Austin, 2019). She has also shown in group exhibitions at venues including François Ghebaly (Los Angeles), Simon Lee Gallery (London), Blaffer Museum (Houston), Union Pacific (London), Murmurs (Los Angeles), Nicodim (Los Angeles), Lodos Gallery (Mexico City), and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
Hoehn has participated in prestigious residencies and fellowships including a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Mexico, the Artpace International Artist in Residence (San Antonio), the Jan Van Eyck Academie (Netherlands), the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Lighthouse Works, Acre Residency (Chicago), and SOMA Summer (Mexico City). She has been recognized with awards such as the Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, the Meredith Long Prize, the Houston Arts Alliance “Let Creativity Happen” award, the Idea Fund Grant, the Eliza Prize (MFAH), and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.
Hoehn’s practice invites the viewer into a space of psychological metamorphosis and poetic disorientation. Her work persistently questions how bodies are read, regulated, sculpted, and erased—how transformation, rupture, and repair become metaphors for survival. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.