About
Constance Hockaday creates public art social sculptures that confront issues surrounding public space, political voice, and belonging. AND in a parallel dimension she also works as an Organizational Development practitioner with scaling companies, implementing tools and practices that ensure people and culture stay aligned during transformative periods of growth. This unlikely career pairing can be traced back to an extraordinary encounter as a young adult with the Floating Neutrinos, a family of psycho-spiritual artists who sailed around the world in handmade vessels. From them she learned that she could have whatever she wanted in this life including two simultaneous careers in distantly adjacent subjects. In 2011 she created a floating boat hotel in New York City in hopes of connecting New Yorkers to the public waterways— attracting 5000+ visitors, international press and critical acclaim. The New York Times described her 2014 piece All These Darlings and Now Us as a “powerful commentary on the forces of technification and gentrification roiling San Francisco.” In 2020 Hockaday launched Artists-In-Presidents which brought together 50+ artists to address the nation alongside the 2020 Presidential Campaign. And, currently she is creating Disaster Furniture Showroom, a project staged in a furniture store that responds to our most intimate ideas about disaster and Climate Change. Hockaday holds an MFA in Social Practice and MA in Conflict Resolution. Her work has been supported by Map Fund, YBCA, Mills College Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, The Untitled Art Fair, and Flux Factory. She has been in residence at Headlands Center of the Arts (2016-17), Robert Rauschenberg Residency (2018), UCLA Center for the Art of Performance, and The Blackwood Gallery at the Univeristy of Toronto (2021). She is a Senior TED Fellow and is currently the Director of Organizational and Leadership Development at findhelp.