TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK (b. 1974, Oklahoma City, OK) lives and works in Houston, TX.
Trenton Doyle Hancock's giant candy-colored works are suffused with personal mythology and presented at an operatic scale. Through collage, paint, and accumulations of detritus, he creates exuberant and subversive narratives that often involve his alter ego superhero, “Torpedoboy.” Hancock employs a variety of cultural tropes, ranging, in tone from comic-strip superhero battles to medieval morality plays, and, in style from Hieronymus Bosch to Max Ernst.
Hancock has shown in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Whitney Biennial (2000/2002). Solo exhibitions of his work have been mounted at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL. He has also shown internationally at the Lyon and Istanbul Biennials. Hancock recently won the 2007 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, given by The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
Hancock is represented by James Cohan Gallery in New York.