About
Alyssa Hobson (b. 1990) is a fine art photographer living in San Diego, California. She has a life long love for history and the remnants of the past. Growing up, Alyssa let her imagination run wild, getting lost in both the stories she read and those she created. Being an only child allowed her to create entire worlds in her grandma’s backyard.Often getting lost somewhere between dreams,reality and the burrowed-out hedges.
Alyssa’s work , much like herself, exists in between realms. Realms of what we can see and understand to somewhere beyond. Her work takes place beyond time but is filled with nostalgia and familiarity. Visually dark and driven by narrative reoccurring themes in her work includes nostalgia, passage of time, decay, dreams, myth as well as the veil between the unknown.
Alyssa graduated from Academy of Art University in San Francisco , receiving a BFA in Fine Art Photography. While in school she met her husband. The two were early collaborators and still work with each other whenever possible . They currently live in Southern California with their son and two cats.
Exhibitions & PUBLICATIONS
2021 Chasing Ghosts VI, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR.
2021 Gather: A Reopening, Inspirations Gallery. San Diego,CA.
2020 Gather: A Showcase, Inspirations Gallery. San Diego,CA.
2020 Chasing Ghosts V, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR.
2020 The Fine Art of Photography,Plymouth Center for the Arts. Plymouth, MA
2020 Dreamscapes & Visions, PhotoPlace Gallery. Middlebury, VT.
2020 Taking Pictures 2020, Black Box Art Gallery, Portland, OR.
2020 The Crow Show 2020, The Studio Door Gallery. San Diego,CA.
2020 Pagan Rights Exhibition, San Diego, CA.
2019 Fierce and Frail II, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR.
2019 Altered Realities. PhotoPlace Gallery. Middlebury, VT.
2019 Great Outdoors. La Bodega Gallery. Barrio Logan, CA.
2019 Horrorgasm. San Diego, CA.
2019 Subterranean Exhibition. San Diego, CA.
2019 Celestial Exhibition. San Diego, CA.
2018 Terror at the Tenth Exhibition. San Diego, CA.
2018 5th Annual Something Creepy Exhibition. San Diego, CA.
2018 Folk Tales + Urban Legends Exhibition. San Diego, CA.
2018 Featured Artist. San Diego Voyager Magazine.
2018 Issue #49/50 Creative Quarterly Magazine.
2016 Mermaids. La Bodega Gallery. Barrio Logan, CA.
2015 Still Life. The Center for Fine Art. Boulder, CO.
2015 Annual Spring Show. Academy of Art University. San Francisco, CA.
2014 Annual Spring Show. Academy of Art University. San Francisco, CA.
2013 Annual Spring Show. Academy of Art University. San Francisco, CA.