Baker Artist Portfolios

Ethan Hoskins is a multidisciplinary artist from Baltimore, Maryland. His practice primarily revolves around painting, where he investigates ideas of value, identity, transformation and visibility.

He went to school in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was a part of the Brown RISD Dual Degree program, a prestigious five-year program between Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) that accepts 15 students each year. There, he studied Psychology at Brown and Apparel Design at RISD, and graduated in 2024.

While studying apparel at RISD, he tasked himself with making a painting a week for the year of 2023, which he called the 52 for 52 freestyle. This project was written about in the publication Hyperallergic and reignited his painting practice. With painting now central to his practice, he developed a series of self portraits on styrofoam for his thesis project, which were featured on Vogue. This series, inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’ theory of double consciousness explored the feeling of being visible as an object; yet invisible as a person through semi abstraction and expressionism.

After graduating, Ethan worked as a studio assistant for Richard Fleischner, a sculptor, whose work is in the collections of notable institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art.

Ethan now lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland where he continues to explore the ideas of his thesis and push the bounds of his painting practice.