Hugo McCloud's Hidden Reflection

Born in Palo Alto California in 1980, Hugo McCloud is one of the most prolific artists working today. McCloud’s work has quickly evolved through a process of restless experimentation, bringing inventiveness and fearlessness to the act of making. The artist is engaged in an ongoing quest to elevate and master diverse methodologies and the array of subjects his work addresses. An abiding, unifying theme is Hugo’s preoccupation with finding beauty in the everyday.

McCloud has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York. the Fenix Museum in The Netherlands, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, The Arts Club, London and Fondazione 107, in Turin, Italy. He has also been featured in group exhibitions at the Nasher Museum at Duke University, the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and The Drawing Center, New York. His work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.; the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Brooklyn Museum; the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York; the Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York; the Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art; The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami; the Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, Michigan; the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, Florida; the Hort Family Collection, New York; The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art, San Francisco; and The UBS Collection, New York.

Hugo McCloud lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Tulum, Mexico.