Hope Gangloff

Hope Gangloff (born 1974) is an American painter based in New York City who is known for her vividly-colored portraiture.

Early life and education Gangloff was born in Amityville, New York.

Early career In high school, Gangloff began creating large-scale paintings in the attic of an old barn owned by her parents in Amityville, New York. She has further likened her creative process to rock climbing:An outsider who doesn’t look at a lot of art might not understand why I paint similar things over and over again… But there are always micro movements. I’m always working through problems. Rock climbers look for little changes in rocks to help them climb and keep going. When I look at a painting, I’m also looking for the move that’s going to set off something else. The whole painting is like a problem I’m trying to solve. Combined with subject matter and color, Laura Staugaitis states that "he artist’s strong but gestural lines create defined shapes that are filled with repetitive marks and bright patterns. Gangloff gives equal textural attention to all areas of the painting, which draws the viewer’s eye to every detail and also contextualizes each portrait sitter in a unique set of surroundings." Her work has additionally been featured in group exhibitions at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. Her work is in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

In 2017, Gangloff was the inaugural artist for the Cantor Art Center’s Diekman Contemporary Commissions program, which resulted in a solo show and a weeklong residency. That same year, she was selected as the cover artist for the 2017 Winter/Spring Program at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) as part of the academy's tradition of featuring visual art on the cover of BAMbill. Gangloff's work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

In 2022, Gangloff participated in the Fall 2022 pre-collection by Alexander McQueen, an initiative involving 12 female artists from around the world, including Cristina de Middel and Marcela Correa.

Personal life Hope Gangloff is married to fellow artist Benjamin Degen.