Artist Statement/ Biography

Christian Hincapie's work is equal parts research-based, studio-based, and made in collaboration with public space. Through active observation and research, he brings together material traces that reflect the simultaneous presence of both distinct individuals and the effects of power over the world. His artworks stand as monuments and uncanny analogies to the connections between power and loss. From his studies and observations he create serial works that speak about presence and absence; visibility and invisibility; past and present; the private and the public. His work holds a tension between the vernacular and the official.

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Christian Hincapie was born in Pereira, Colombia in 1989 and today lives and works in New York, NY. Hincapie received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2013, where he received a full-tuition scholarship and the Yarnell Award for Excellence in Art upon graduation. He was an Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellow at the Yale Norfolk program in 2012. His work has been shown through the Public Art Fund, High Tide Gallery in Philadelphia, La Mama Gallery, Mana Contemporary, The Colombian Consulate in New York, Rodi Gallery, and various artist-run and non-profit spaces in New York City and the Tri-state area. In 2019 he attended the Palazzo Monti Residency in Brescia, Italy. Hincapie received his MFA in 2020 as a full-tuition fellowship recipient at Rutgers University where he teaches drawing as a Part Time Lecturer.