Violet Hopkins (born 1973, El Paso, Texas) is an American painter who lives and works in Los Angeles. She holds a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia.[1]
Hopkins has exhibited her paintings internationally, including Uschi Kolb Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; Claremont Museum of Art, CA; Gallery Sora, Tokyo; Galeria Moriarty, Madrid; BaliceHertling, Paris; Rubell Family Museum, Miami; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London; Peres Projects, Berlin; Deitch Projects, New York; David Zwirner Gallery, New York; CRG, New York; Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo. In 2007 she was awarded the Art Production Fund Giverny Residency Program, France. Hopkins' work is included in major collections, including Jumex Collection, Mexico City; the Sender Collection, New York; Rubell Family Museum, Miami; the Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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