David Hoffos

OPENING TONIGHT! HOFFOS / MADDIN Guy Maddin (@guy.maddin ) and David Hoffos (@wizardhobo ) both construct fragmented, image-based narratives that treat memory as unstable, collaged, and deeply subjective, drawing from cinematic language and visual illusion to blur the line between reality and recollection. Through analog processes and deliberate imperfections, their practices reveal how perception, nostalgia, and personal history are continuously reconstructed rather than fixed.

Thrilled to be paired with legendary filmmaker Guy Maddin(!) for our exhibition opening this Friday, May 8 at de Montigny Contemporary, Ottawa--------Thanks Brendan de Montigny!

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I launched a new series of large collages at ArtToronto last week, thanks to de Montigny Contemporary. These are dibond aluminum, framed in maple, editions of three. "ROADTRIPPING" Peggy's Cove Lake Louise Sequoia National Park Niagara Falls Drumheller Butchart Gardens Grand Canyon (details)

The new 𝐑𝐎𝐀𝐃𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 series by 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐬 (@wizardhobo ) drops tomorrow at @art_toronto Come swing by DMC’s booth A62 and check them out Hoffos explains that “These sources are fed into a blender of revolving techniques and their endless variations. Mosaic, lenticular, kaleidoscopic, 3D, anamorphic, magnifying, blurring, distorting and obscuring formulas and effects are recombined in search of undiscovered, lost, unlikely - and often absurd - ways of making (and unmaking) a picture.” What emerges is a kind of lucid daydream, where perception collides with nostalgia through the psychoactive lens of collective memory. David Hoffos, Sequoia, National Park, 2025, Digital print on dibond from handmade construction, 24.5 x 50 Inches, White washed maple frame, Edition of 3

Debuting next week @art_toronto . ROADTRIPPING is a new series by David Hoffos (@wizardhobo ) For more than three decades, David Hoffos has been known for his immersive, multi-channel installations —dark walk-through environments and dreamlike nocturnal dioramas eerily brought to life through his signature low-tech illusionism. ROADTRIPPING shifts the scene from nighttime narratives to daytime reveries, bringing a previously hidden current of Hoffos’s practice into full view for the first time. They explain, “If my central creative impulses continue to draw from the worlds of cinema, scenography, psychology and illusion, there has always been a quieter but persistent call towards a lighter, mostly private, often unpresentable mode of expression where I indulge a more open-ended set of visual experiments.” David Hoffos, Grand Canyon, 2025, Digital print on dibond from handmade construction, 45 x 33 Inches, White washed maple frame, Edition of 3

Coming Soon! The new series, 𝐑𝐎𝐀𝐃𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆, by David Hoffos (@wizardhobo ) For more than three decades, David Hoffos has been known for immersive, multi-channel installations- dark walk-through environments and dreamlike nocturnal dioramas eerily brought to life through his signature low-tech illusionism. 𝐑𝐎𝐀𝐃𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 shifts the scene from nighttime narratives to daytime reveries, bringing a previously hidden current of Hoffos’s practice into full view for the first time. He explains, “If my central creative impulses continue to draw from the worlds of cinema, scenography, psychology and illusion, there has always been a quieter but persistent call towards a lighter, mostly private, often unpresentable mode of expression where I indulge a more open-ended set of visual experiments.” This new series of constructed objects (collages for lack of a better word) are manual and analog. They openly display their imperfections while emphasizing the truth of a photograph as a flat, tactile surface. Hoffos describes the production process as unpredictable, noting that “They vary wildly in their complexity, often dashed off in a moment or laboured over for days”.     The unifying thread within this long-running body of work has always been the appropriation and alteration of images from a collection of 60s and 70s ephemera. In the case of this series, Kodachrome postcard scenes of travel and leisure reference an imaginary of family road trips, revisiting some of the hazy settings and moments of the artist’s adolescent inspirations. Hoffos explains that “These sources are fed into a blender of revolving techniques and their endless variations. Mosaic, lenticular, kaleidoscopic, 3-d, anamorphic, magnifying, blurring, distorting and obscuring formulas and effects are recombined in search of undiscovered, lost, unlikely - and often absurd - ways of making (and unmaking) a picture.” What emerges is a kind of lucid daydream, where perception collides with nostalgia through the psychoactive lens of collective memory.  Lake Louise, 2025, Digital print on dibond from handmade construction, 20 x 50 inches, edition 1/3

Path to Town (Banff Centre), 35 mm photographs from Video8 stills, nails, plywood, 18" x 85", 1996

Buick Wedding, archival print on dibond, from hand-cut paper collage, 30" x 60", edition of 3, 2024

"Scenes from the House Dream: Treehouse", single channel video, audio, mixed media installation, detail, 2007

"Maki/Nigiri Platter", from Japanese Cooking series, mixed media shadowbox, Canadian Photographic Portfolio Society, edition of 10, 2005