About
Dannielle Hodson’s paintings operate in an arena of excess, informed by research into the monstrous across social science, psychology, fairytales, and horror. The work examines transformation, mutation, and chaotic emergence, focusing on forms that become monstrous through the act of change itself—entities that refuse wholeness or stable identity.
Characterized by dense visual information and an emphasis on simultaneity, the paintings function through a logic akin to quantum superposition. Multiple, contradictory states are held at once: figures emerge and disintegrate simultaneously, coherence and collapse occupy the same pictorial space. Meaning is not fixed within the image but contingent on perception, implicating the viewer in a moment of visual “collapse” where one reading briefly asserts itself without resolving the field as a whole.
Resisting closure, the work favors perpetual becoming. Multiplicity operates not as excess to be resolved but as an ontological condition, producing unstable surfaces where form and formlessness, past and presence, coexist in sustained indeterminacy.
Education
2023/2024 Royal College of Art, MA Painting
2019 - 2021 Turps Banana, studio painting programme
2015 - 2017 Central Saint Martins, MA Fine Art
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Songs of Innocence and Experience, Gallerie Brescia, Brescia
Through the Looking Glass, JD Malat Gallery, London
Solo, Forking Paths, Kravets Wehby Gallery, NY
Untitled Art Fair, Miami with Kravets Wehby Gallery
2024
Solo, Chasing Rabbits, Kravets Wehby, New York
Being Human, Morris Adjemi Architechts, New York
Untitled Art Fair/Kravets Wehby, MiamiNew York
Apocalyptic Changes of State, BWG Gallery, London
Chicago Expo, Kravets Wehby, Chicago
Kravets Wehby, New York
Palimpsestic Impressions, Arusha Gallery, London
2023
State of Play, Ojiri Gallery London
Beyond the Gaze, Saatchi Gallery with Charlie Smith London
Two Imposters, Four You Gallery, online
Swamp Legends, Terrace Gallery, London
Combat Stress charity auction, Bankside Gallery, London
A triumph of Life, Four You Gallery, Paris
2021
Outsider Art/Kindred Spirits, Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire
Art on a Postcard, Soho Revue Gallery, London
Another Kind of Life, Four You Gallery, Online
In the Eye of The Beholder, Four You Gallery, Online
2019
Miniscule, in association with Cross Lane Projects, Venice.
Face to Face, London contemporary Art Auction, Warsaw
Empire II, Oaxaca In Association with the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca.
Miniscule, Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, UK
2018
Empire II Tallinn Art Week in Association with Haus Gallery
Journeys: Outside In, Sotheby's London.
Bainbridge Open, ASC Gallery, London
2017
Badenfahrt festival, Switzerland.
Empire II, Venice, Brussels, Berlin, Kendall.
An Art School, Tate Exchange, London
Selected Awards
2022 Derbyshire Award for Emerging Artists, London
2016 Roy Pace Moving Image award, London
2009 Koestler Awards. Royal Festival Hall, London.
2009 Outside In, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester.