LYNNE HOBAICA

BAKERSVILLE, NC

BORN: APRIL 14, 1985 (PHOENIX, AZ)

Education

2015 MFA, University of Art and Design Linz, Austria 2010 BFA, Syracuse University, NY

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023 New Work by Lynne Hobaica and Rickie Barnett, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC 2022 Traversing Myth, with Robin

Whiteman, Saratoga Clay Arts Center, NY • Lynne Hobaica: Featured Artist, Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA • Two Headed Diver, with Rickie Barnett, ClayAKAR, Iowa City 2021 Two

Headed Diver, with Rickie Barnett, Focus Gallery, Penland School of Craft, NC 2018 I will help you live forever, Solo, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Ambidextrous, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC 2022

Worcester Pottery Invitational, MA • Yunomi Invitational, ClayAKAR, Iowa City 2021 Spruce Pine Potters Market, NC • Yunomi Invitational, ClayAKAR, Iowa City • Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA • Functional Canvas, Charlie Cummings, Gainesville, FL • Clever Birds, Abel Contemporary Gallery, Stoughton, WI 2020 Narrative Offerings, San Antonio Museum of Fine Arts, TX • Form to Table, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC • 17th Annual Ceramics Invitational, Abel Contemporary, Stoughton, WI • 16 Hands, Floyd, VA

• Yunomi Invitational, ClayAKAR, Iowa City • Spruce Pine Potters Market, NC • Materials: Hard + Soft, Greater Denton

Arts Council, TX • Cup Invitational, Good Earth Pottery, Bellingham, WA • NCECA Gallery Expo, Gandee Gallery, Richmond, VA • Functional Canvas, Charlie Cummings Gallery, Gainesville, FL 2019 Diverse Direction in Clay, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA • The Almighty Cup, Gandee Gallery, Fabius, NY

Selected Awards

2022 McKnight Artist Residency for Ceramic Artists, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN 2020 Emerging Artist, Ceramics Monthly 2019 Blue Ridge Soap Shed Scholarship, Penland, NC • 2nd Place in 3-D Artwork, Creative Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA 2018 De Poi Award, Seattle Perugia Sister City Association, Perugia, Italy

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Abel Contemporary, Stoughton, WI • Brumfield Gallery, Astoria, OR • Firehouse Gallery, Rochester, NY • Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA • Gandee Gallery, Fabius, NY • Penland Gallery, NC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023 Touchstone Center for Crafts, PA • Alison Palmer Studio, Farmington, CT 2022 Saratoga Clay Arts Center, NY • Arrowmont Mountain School of Craft, TN • Eye of the Dog Art Center, San Marcos, TX • Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN 2021 Penland School of Craft, NC