SATCH HOYT

Satch Hoyt is from Afro- Jamaican origins but was born in London. He lives and works in Berlin. He makes sculptures and installations with audio, as well as paintings and drawings. He leads a reflection on the existence of the African diaspora and its multiple consequences. Hoyt's work deals with the field experience of the "black experience" to draw his art in the spirit of fantasy, shelter and transcendence - vehicles with an imaginary journey beyond the hardening and the oppression of history. Satch Hoyt has composed a number of songs with Grace Jones; he also worked with the master percussionist and composer Stomu Yamashta, sang and played on many records. He recently recorded in Berlin, a new album "Battlefields Of Peace". He has exhibited at Beautiful Game, Los Angelos County Museum of Art (2014); Repeat the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (2013); Radical Presence, Grey Art Gallery, New York University (2013); Newtopia: The state of human rights, the Holocaust Museum and human rights, Mechelen, Belgium (2012); ICA Boston (2011); Art is a combat sport, Museum of Fine Arts, Calais, France (2011), Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2010). Hoyt participated in the San Juan Triennial, Puerto Rico (2009); Beijing Biennale (2008); Brooklyn Museum (2007), Contemporary Art Museum, Houston (2007); Tate Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, U.K. (2004).