ABOUT
Born: Hanover, Germany, 1984
Lives & Works: Sebastopol, California
Cristina Hobbs creates atmospheric paintings and works on paper that explore memory, landscape, and the passage of time through layered surfaces and restrained gesture.
Rooted in Northern California yet informed by years abroad in Europe and South America, her work moves between abstraction and recognition.
Rather than describing a specific location, she translates place into layered planes of color, softened edges, and restrained gesture. Hills flatten into tonal bands. Reflections dissolve. Sky becomes atmosphere rather than backdrop.
Education
2011 — California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
BFA with Distinction, Painting and Drawing
2006–2007 — Universidad El Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Foreign Exchange
2004–2006 — Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität, Münster, Germany
BA Romanistic Literature and Linguistics, Philosophy, Art History
2003–2004 — Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Foreign Exchange
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 — Bannister Tasting Room, The View From Here, Geyserville, CA
2015 — Aerena Gallery, Cristina Hobbs, Healdsburg, CA
2015 — Killka Gallery, Sara Matthews & Cristina Hobbs, Mendoza, Argentina
2014 — Studio Blomster, References, Thoughts and Other Things, Guerneville, CA
2013 — Studio Blomster, In the Mists, Guerneville, CA
2013 — Flying Goat Coffee, Wanderer, Healdsburg, CA
2013 — Stark Tasting Room, Cristina Hobbs, Healdsburg, CA
2012 — Café La Haye, Im Nebel, Sonoma, CA
2012 — Plumgoods, Landschaften, Santa Barbara, CA
2011 — Café La Haye, Ein Sommer, Sonoma, CA
2011 — Axis Café and Gallery, Komm Mit Mir, San Francisco, CA
2011 — California College of the Arts, Senior Thesis Show, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 — Bannister Gallery, Nature Pulling Together, Geyserville, CA2019 — Roving Venue, Subject / Object, Healdsburg, CA
2015 — Galería Daniel Rueda, Veronica Garcia, Cecilia Carreras, Cristina Hobbs, Annabel Simionato y Patricia Roggerone, Mendoza, Argentina
2014 — Temporary Spaces, Curated State, San Francisco, CA
2013 — Fouladi Projects Gallery, Project Color Corps' First Annual Art for Humanity Event, San Francisco,CA
2013 — Flying Goat Coffee, Animals Among Us, Healdsburg, CA
2013 — Perdita Productions, Falling Dark, Geyserville, CA
2013 — Sonoma County Museum, In My Back Yard – The Sonoma County Museum as Subject, Santa Rosa, CA
2012 — Studio 428, Product 2, Healdsburg, CA
2011 — California College of the Arts, International Student Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2010 — Oliver Art Gallery, Moveable Space, Oakland, CA
2010 — Goldsmith College, Moveable Space, London, UK
Collections & Commissions
Rosewood Sand Hill, Menlo Park, CA
Paul Hobbs Winery, Sebastopol, CA
Hilllick & Hobbs Winery, NY
Viña Cobos, Mendoza, Argentina
Private collections throughout California, New York, Germany, and Argentina
Press & Publications
2025 — Sonoma Magazine, Natural Gifts, by Meg McConahey