San Joaquin Delta College
Stockton, CA, 1977 – 79

Academy of Art
San Francisco, CA, 1979 – 81

teaching experience

Academy of Art
San Francisco, CA, 1986 – 96, 2001 – present

solo exhibitions

2019 | Tippytoes
NIAD Art Center, Richmond CA

2019 | Mariposa
James Wright Gallery, LA CA

2017 | Painted Ultra-space
Cabrillo Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA

2016 | BOP2
The Fourth Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA

2015 | Startup Art Fair
Hotel Del Sol, San Francisco, CA

2013 | B.O.P.
Oceana Art Gallery, Pacifica, CA

2011 | strapped, wrapped, rapped
PublicWorks Rollup Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009 | all happens in the sky
Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007 | Thrill rides and home gardening
Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005 | Homey
Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004 | Bump
Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY

2004 | All you have to do is find your way home from here
Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003 | Sleepyhead
Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002 | Some Drawing
Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2000 | Nudge
Traywick, Berkeley, CA

1999 | Pucker
RARE Gallery, New York, NY

1998 | *silly
Four Walls, San Francisco, CA

1996 | Luggage Store Gallery, SF MOMA Rental Gallery, Four Walls
San Francisco, CA

public art commissions

2010 | Laguna Honda Hospital Redevelopment Project
SF Arts Commission
Budget: $180,000

awards

1999 | Eureka Fellowship
Fleishhacker Foundation

1995 | Gold Award
California Discovery

1994 | Grand Award
San Diego Art Institute

group exhibitions

2020 | Locals Only
Mirus Gallery, SF CA

2019 | Secret Santa
Guerrero Gallery, SF CA

2019 | Hohumallyefaithful
Bravin Lee, NY, NY

2019 | Primal Things
James Wright Gallery, LA CA

2019 | Sharks
Swim Gallery, SF CA

2019 | Ultra Light Beams
Mount Analogue, Seattle, WA

2019 | Radiant Spectrum
Mash Gallery, LA CA

2018 | House Plant Show
Swim Gallery, SF CA

2017 | Sweet n Low
Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

2017 | Lil Swim
Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016 | The Day After
Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
curated by Leo Bersamina

2016 | On and On
C2C, San Francisco, CA

2016 | Anne and Mark’s Art Party
Santa Clara Fairgrounds, CA

2015 | SWIM
New Image Art, LA, CA

2014 | some work
PublicWorks Rollup Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008 | 30th Anniversary
SF MOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007 | Back to the Fifties
Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY

2007 | In the Fullness of Time
Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006 | Under the Surface
SF MOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004 | Hard Candy
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2004 | Comics Stripped
Off the Preserve, De Rosa Foundation, Napa, CA

2003 | 25th Anniversary
SF MOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001 | Eureka! Art from the Bay Area
MCA, San Diego, CA (catalog)

2001 | Eureka, Too
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2000 | Petty Crimes
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK (cat.) touring

2000 | Fleishhacker Fellowship
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (cat.)

1999 | Life in Space
Three Day Weekend, Wesley Hall, CCAC
San Francisco, CA

1998 | Nothing But Time
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

1998 | SAP
Lanai Motel, San Francisco, CA

1998 | California Current
RARE Gallery, New York, NY

1997 | Bay Area Now
Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA (cat.)

1997 | Thoughts on the Holidays
Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

1997 | Round and Around
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

1996 | New American Talent
Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX (cat.)

1996 | Glean
Four Walls, San Francisco, CA

1996 | Confess
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

1995 | Penetrations
Show N Tell, San Francisco, CA

1995 | National Juried Exhibition
Phoenix Gallery, NY, NY

1994 | Identity: Media and Representation
Works, San Jose, CA

1993 | Object
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

“Accumulate, organize, edit and deconstruct, then start the process again.

“The sheer enjoyment of searching for and being open to strange beauty is the foundation of what I do as an artist. The subconscious mind with all of its lexicon and image banks, Saturday morning cartoons, Disney classics, Tex Avery to Spongebob, and commercial art from the 1950s and 60s are all some of the things that inhabit my paintings. My process is more like doodling on peechee folders, combined with the collage of handmade decals, made of paint or paper, and sometimes covered in epoxy resins. These piles, this layering relates to my elaborate dense installation work of years prior. In this playpen of paint and what it can do, I discover things that are oddly new yet familiar, reinforcing the peculiar and interesting experience of being human.”

~terry hoff, 2016

Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle

The face of existential angst? Or just plain silly? | 21 April, 2007
A look beyond the veneer of alleged innocent era | 23 July, 2005
Terry Hoff at Lizabeth Oliveria | 25 January, 2003
Toying With Meaning | 17 June 2000
Terry Hoff Pushes and Pulls on the Emotions | 21 May 1998
Quick Draw Artists and Tender Hearts | 13 June 1997
Stacking Things Up | 11 December 1996

Bay Area Now

Exhibition Catalog | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 1997

David Bonetti

Eureka Exhibition Much Improved | SF Chronicle, 1 February 2001
Gallery Watch | SF Examiner, 18 December 1998
The Young at Art | SF Examiner, 18 June 1997

Eureka Fellowship Awards

Exhibition Catalog | San Jose Museum of Art, 2000–2001

Jack Fisher, San Jose Mercury News

Artists To Keep An Eye On | 14 January 2001
Twisted Visions of Youth | 1 February 2004