SCOTT HOCKING

  Coronal Mass Ejection 2013
  The Egg and Michigan Central Train Station 2007-2013
  Mercury Retrograde 2012
  The End of the World 2012
  The Quarry / Steinbruch 2013
  The Secrets of Nature 2012-2013
  Cast Concrete in the Auto Age 2008-present
  Bad Graffiti 2007-present
  Detroit Nights 2007-present
  Signs Symbols and Ciphers 2007-present
  Garden of the Gods 2009-2011
  Tartarus 2011
  Triumph of Death 2010
  Sisyphus and the Voice of Space 2010
  New Mound City 2010
  Ziggurat and Fisher Body 21 2007-2009
  The Mound Project - Detroit Love 2007-present
  Shipwrecks 1999-present
  Roosevelt Warehouse and the Cauldron 2007-2010
  The Cauldron and Roosevelt Warehouse 2010
  Fountain of Youth Vending Machine 2008-2010
  The Zone 1999-2010
  Lao Zhu and the Flour Factory 2009
  Detroit Midden Mound 2008
  RELICS 2001-2013
  Tire Pyramid 2006
  Animals 2006
  Icelandic Saga 2006
  Exploring North America 2006-present
  Scrappers 2000-2004
  The Salon 2004-2006
  Found Slides 2000-2004
  Pictures of a City - Detroit 1997-2006
  Alchemical Works 1997-2006
   
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

11/2013 The Way of the Shovel - On the Achaeological Imaginary in Art (excerpt) - Dieter Roelstraete, MCA / U of Chicago Press

09/17/13 Scott Hocking Photographs Detroit's Worst Graffiti - Pat O'Malley, Vice Magazine

09/2013 Detroit: Artists in Residence - Scott Hocking - The Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

03/2013 Scott Hocking at Susanne Hilberry Gallery - Matthew Biro, Artforum

03/01/13 An Appreciation for the Often Hilarious, Usually Horrible, World of Bad Graffiti - Allison Meier, Hyperallergic

02/2013 Culture File interview - Luke Clancy, RTE Irish National Radio, Dublin, Ireland

12/24/12 Birth, Death, and Regeneration Mix in New Scott Hocking Exhibit - Michael Hodges, Detroit News

03/21/12 Scott Hocking's Garden of the Gods - Vince Carducci, Huffington Post Detroit

12/21/11 Revived with Scott Hocking - Vanessa Miller, Knight Arts Detroit, The Knight Foundation

10/2011 Here. exhibition catalog (excerpt) - R. Hart, Pennsylavania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA

08/04/11 Seeing Beauty in All Stages: An Interview with Scott Hocking - Sarah Margolis-Pineo, Bad At Sports

06/07/11 Unbuilding Detroit - Eleanor McDowall, BBC Radio 4, London, UK

05/2011 Scott Hocking – Lynn Crawford, The Brooklyn Rail, New York

05/2011 From the Deserted Streets of Detroit to the Holy Place of Aborigines in One Step - MMC Maribor, Slovenia

05/18/11 Tartarus: A Netherworld Forest of Strange Beauty and Harsh Realities - Gabrielle Pescador, Art Slant

01/02/11 Art's New Dawn in Detroit – Murray Whyte, The Toronto Star, Toronto, ON, Canada

09/22/10 Artists in Residence – Linda Yablonsky, New York Times Style Magazine

09/09/10 The Window of Opportunity in Detroit / In the Footsteps of Hocking – Vince Carducci, Motown Review of Art

08/15/10 Dream Dissected – Christopher Yates, Columbus Dispatch

08/03/10 Wringing Art Out of the Rubble in Detroit – Melena Ryzik, New York Times

08/03/10 Artists Making It in Detroit - New York Times and Denver Post

06/23/10 Scott Hocking, New Mound City – Jessica Baran, Riverfront Times, St. Louis, MO

06/16/10 Scott Hocking - The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, MO

05/14/10 Detroit in den Augen von KünstlerInnen - Ceiberweiber Artikel Kultur, Vienna, Austria

04/27/10 Neues Leben in Ruinen, Detroit, Stadt als Material - Anne Katrin Feßler der Standard, Vienna, Austria

03/04/10 Big Journeys Begin With A Single Step - Vagner Whitehead - www.art-sight.blogspot.com

03/2010 New Installation at the Institute for Humanities Gallery - Amanda Krugliak - University of Michigan

12/2009 A Nice Spot Along The Water – Scott Hocking, Under the Influence Magazine #6, Paris, France

10/2009 Heartland exhibition catalog (excerpt) - Van Abbemuseum, NL / Smart Museum, University of Chicago Press, IL

10/2009 Detroit – Mediamatic Travel (photographs), pps 20-23, Amsterdam, Netherlands

10/2009 Heartland – Laura Weinberg, Time Out Chicago (#242), Chicago, IL

10/2009 Reassessing MiddleCoast Art – Dan Gunn, Art Slant Chicago

10/04/09 Scott Hocking, Detroit - Cantablog - www.cantabpublishing.com

10/01/09 Scott Hocking Ziggurat – Jeff Kinkle, LOOK Dossier Journal - www.dossierjournal.com

08/2009 Scott Hocking, Rinascimento Americano – Gloria Mattioni, Velvet, v 33, La Repubblica, Milan

06/2009 Walking Distance Catalog (excerpt) - Edwin Street Gallery, Hamtramck, MI

06/17/09 Right Place, Weird Time – Rebecca Mazzei, The Metro Times, Detroit

05/2009 To Stay of Not to Stay, The Creative Dilemma – R Lopez, The Art Newspaper, No 202, London

04/17/09 Artists vs Blight (excerpt) – Alexandra Alter, The Wall Street Journal – www.wsj.com

04/2009 Detroit's Road to Renewal – Alex Altman, TIME magazine, USA

04/01/09 Detroit Artist Finds Beauty Amid City's Manufactured Blight – Michael Hodges, Detroit News

02/05/09 Interview with Willem Lust for Nova TV, The Netherlands -here or here

01/2009 Heartland exhibition at Van Abbemuseum – Douglas Heingartner, Frieze

12/2008 Artists Memorialize Detroit's Decay – W. Robinson, Artnet.com News

12/2008 Volume 18 – After Zero, Afterculture (photographs), pps 44, 50, Amsterdam, Netherlands

12/07/08 The Pyramids of Detroit - Noah Vaughn, Dump Site - www.rubbishgoeshere.com/dump

10/24/08 Heartland, Wasteland - Carolyn Radlo, Cakes and Ale - www.cakesnale.blogspot.com

10/04/08 Walking Detroit, the Motor City – Scott Hocking, Heartland exhibit magazine, Eindhoven, NL

09/17/08 Wake up the neighborhood – Rebecca Mazzei, Metro Times, Detroit

08/13/08 Body and Soul, The Story of Fisher Body – Samantha Cleaver, Metro Times, Detroit

06/2008 Altoids Award 2008, Emerging Art in America – New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC

02/2008 Artists in Residence: Scott Hocking – Ambassador Magazine, Detroit

11/21/07 Scott Hocking - Brandi, The Dopeness - www.brandiva.blogspot.com

07/13/07 Scott Hocking: An Artist in Transition – Marti Benedetti, Crain's Detroit Business

11/2006 - 01/2007 Scott Hocking's Icelandic Saga – Scott Hocking, photo essay, The Detroiter

10/25/06 Bloody Beasts – Dennis Nawrocki, Metro Times, Detroit

10/12/06 Scott Hocking's Menagerie – Nick Sousanis, The Detroiter

08/2006 Pictures of a City – Scrappers, an Observation by Scott Hocking – Dispatch Detroit magazine

05/31/06 Pyramid Scheme: Scott Hocking treads on suburbia – Nick Sousanis, Metro Times, Detroit

05/2006 Tire Pyramid Flyer - MOCAD

08/03/05 Artcite Exhibit Encourages Hunt for Buried Treasure – Melissa Ray, The Lance, Windsor, ON

08/2005 Cite Unseen – Adrian Freuth, Upfront magazine, Windsor, ON, Canada

07/22/05 Relics Reloaded – Nick Sousanis, The Detroiter

07/13/05 Out of the Past – Vince Carducci, Metro Times, Detroit

03/30/05 Scott Hocking with Center Cut Boneless Pork Loin – Noise, Lansing, MI

10/08/04 Scott Hocking's Vision – Frank Provenzano, The Detroit Free Press, Detroit

10/11/04 Scott Hocking at District Arts – Nick Sousanis, The Detroiter

10/06/04 Detroit Jewels – Phaedra Robinson, Metro Times, Detroit

09/2004 Scrappers - Scott Hocking, Shrinking Cities International Research Text, volume 1, Hatje Cantz, Germany

07/20/04 Scott Hocking: Beauty in Abandonment – Nick Sousanis, The Detroiter

09/2003 Relics – Christy Wood, Detroit Issue, BIG magazine, issue 48

01/2003 - 10/2003 Review Excerpts - Nick Sousanis, The Detroiter

01/2003 Urban Relics and Icons – Nelson Smith, the Gallery at Marygrove College, Detroit

05/29/02 Archeologists of Meaning – Deborah Hochberg, Metro Times, Detroit

11/2001 Treasures from the Forgotten – Walter Wasacz, The Citizen, Hamtramck, MI

10/2001 Rediscovered Treasures – Joy Colby, The Detroit News, Detroit

10/2001 Artists Take On Detroit, online catalog excerpt - The Detroit Institute of Arts