Trenton Doyle Hancock is an American

United States

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 art

Art

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ist. He was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City

Oklahoma city

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, Oklahoma

Oklahoma

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, and grew up in Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas is a city located northeast of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex in Lamar County, Texas, in the United States. It is situated in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods. Physiographically, these regions are part of the West Gulf Coastal Plain. In 1900, 9,358 people lived...

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Hancock received a BFA

Bachelor of Fine Arts

In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...

 from Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

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, and an MFA

Master of Fine Arts

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 from the Tyler School of Art

Tyler School of Art

The Stella Elkins Tyler School of Art, usually just referred to as Tyler School of Art is Temple University's school of art, which confers BFA and MFA degrees. The school was originally founded by sculptors Stella Elkins Tyler and Boris Blai on a separate 14-acre estate in Elkins Park...

 at Temple University

Temple University

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, Philadelphia. Hancock makes print

Printmaking

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s, drawings, and collage

Collage

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d felt

Felt

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 painting

Painting

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The characters which populate his imaginary worlds include the Mound

Mound (creature)

Mounds are half-plant, half-human creatures in the paintings and writings of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock He explained in an art21 interview that the mounds were created thousands of years ago, when an ape man "masturbated into a field of flowers". Hancock's mounds resemble black and white striped...

s, half-animal, half-plant creatures, which are preyed upon by evil beings called vegan

Vegan (creature)

Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock uses the word vegan to refer to fictional creatures responsible for the death of The Legend, the oldest of a plant-like species known as mounds. The concept of a vegan is based largely on the more common usage of the word...

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Hancock was included in the American Folk Art Museum

American Folk Art Museum

The American Folk Art Museum is a museum devoted to American folk art, as well as the work of international self-taught artists. It has branches at 45 West 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, in Midtown Manhattan .In May 2011 the Museum of Modern Art bought its 53rd Street location...

's "Dargerism" exhibit, showing the influence of Henry Darger

Henry Darger

Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a custodian in Chicago, Illinois...

 on contemporary artists.

He is represented in New York by James Cohan Gallery and was featured in PBS' Art21

Art21

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External links

• Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBS
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   series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century - Season 2 (2003).
• http://www.clevelandart.org/exhibcef/hancock/html/7702647.html
• Featured work