About
Cristina Hobbs is an Argentine-German artist based in Sebastopol, California. She grew up between Germany, Argentina, and Brazil, studied in Buenos Aires, and earned a BFA with Distinction in Painting and Drawing from California College of the Arts. She has lived in California for nearly twenty years.
Her paintings begin with remembered weather, shifting horizons, and reflections, then develop through layered color and repeated gesture. A shoreline or cloud bank is felt before it becomes fixed. Her ceramic sculpture carries the same sensibility into three dimensions: fluted, footed vessels and irregular-rimmed bowls, hand-formed in stoneware, with blue-gray and white glazes that shift in the light over dark clay. In both, she keeps the evidence of the making visible.
Her work is in commissions and collections including Rosewood Sand Hill, Paul Hobbs Winery, and Viña Cobos, and in private collections in the United States, Germany, and Argentina.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
Rosewood Sand Hill, Menlo Park, California
Paul Hobbs Winery, Sebastopol, California
Hillick & Hobbs, Seneca Lake, New York
Viña Cobos, Mendoza, Argentina
Private collections in the United States, Germany, and Argentina
EDUCATION
2011
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
BFA with Distinction, Painting and Drawing
2006–2007
Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Studies in Language, Economics, and Cultural Studies
2004–2006
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
Studies in Romance Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, and Art History
2003–2004
Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Spanish Language and Cultural Studies
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
Bannister Wines, The View From Here, Geyserville, California
2025–2026
Inaugural Exhibition, Art Farm at West Dry Creek, Healdsburg, California
2025
Bannister Gallery, In Anticipation of Fall, Geyserville, California
2024
Bannister Gallery, Nature Pulling Together, Geyserville, California
2019
Roving Venue, Subject / Object, Healdsburg, California
2015
Killka Gallery, Sara Matthews & Cristina Hobbs, Mendoza, Argentina
2015
Aerena Gallery, Cristina Hobbs, Healdsburg, California
2015
Galería Daniel Rueda, group exhibition, Mendoza, Argentina
2014
Studio Blomster, References, Thoughts and Other Things, Guerneville, California
2014
Temporary Spaces, Curated State, San Francisco, California
2013
Fouladi Projects Gallery, Project Color Corps’ First Annual Art for Humanity Event, San Francisco, California
2013
Sonoma County Museum, In My Back Yard: The Sonoma County Museum as Subject, Santa Rosa, California
2010
Moveable Space, Goldsmiths College, London, and Oliver Art Gallery, Oakland, California