Hope Gangloff

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Hope Gangloff (born September 15, 1974) is an American painter based in New York City, best known for her bright, vividly colored portraits of friends, peers, and everyday people in intimate settings.

She was born in Amityville, New York, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Cooper Union in 1997. As a student, she painted large portraits on butcher paper using house paint, often of people from her circle. She has described portraiture as a way to communicate and to explore color, humor, and space.

Gangloff works with a sense of study and play, likening her process to rock climbing—constantly solving small problems to move the painting forward. Her subjects are frequently depicted relaxing or focused in domestic environments, with bold color and gestural lines that create defined shapes filled with patterns.

After college, she held various jobs, lived in Montana briefly, then returned to New York to continue making art. She has had solo museum shows at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and the Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Cantor Center, among others.

Her work is in several major collections, including the Broad Art Museum, the Cantor Center, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Kemper Museum. In 2017, she launched the Cantor Art Center’s Diekman Contemporary Commissions and was the cover artist for Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Winter/Spring program. She contributed to the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Hope Gangloff is married to fellow artist Benjamin Degen.