SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
From X to Y and Back Again, Glade Gallery, The Woodlands, Texas, Joseph Staley, curator
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Visual Language & Catharsis, Reeves Art & Design, Houston, Texas
Color:Story 2023, The Silos, Houston, Texas
2022
BLOCK XXII, Glassell School, Houston, Texas, Andy Campbell, curator
Dimensional Disposition, Joseph Staley Projects (c/o Bill Arning Projects), Houston, Texas
2021
BLOCK XXI, Glassell School, Houston, Texas, Francesca Fuchs, curator
Color:Story 2020, Spring Street Studios, Houston, Texas
2018
Real / Surreal, The Silos, Houston, Texas, Carolyn Garcia, juror
Images Included: Cord (2006), THING (2006), Tangent (2017)
Come Together, Winter Street Studios, Houston, Texas, Jacob Spacek, juror
Images Included: The Morning Hours (2018), collaborative artwork with Marlo Saucedo
2017
Collective Works, The Silos, Houston, Texas, unjuried
Images Included:
2016
The Silos Explored , The Silos, Houston, Texas, unjuried
Images Included: Bearing (2016), Corner (2017), Structure (2006), Cord (2006), Trance (2006)
Sawyer Yards Revealed , The Silos, Houston, Texas, Jacob Spacek, juror
Images Included: Canon (2006)
Selected Works from the Artists of Sawyer Yards, Silver Street Studios, Houston, Texas, Clint Willour, juror
Images Included: Borne (2006)
2015
The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas (George Scheer, juror)
Images Included: Jewel of Jeopardy (Leviathan #2) (Color Test Proof) (2015)
PrintHouston: PrintTX, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston Texas. Karen Kunc, Exhibition Juror.
Images Included: Huile sur Toile (Blue Reduction) (2013)
2012
35 Years of Printmaking, Glassell School, Houston Texas. Patrick Palmer, curator.
Images Included: Madonna & Child (2006)
2007
The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas. Rita Gonzales, juror.
Images Included: Leonardo Had Only One Question (2007) [study for LA Shows are Cool (2013)]
New American Talent: 22, Arthouse, Austin, Texas. Anne Ellegood, juror.
Images Included: Structure (2006), Trance (2006)
Positive/Negative Twenty-Two, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee. Toby Kambs, juror.
Images Included: Lantern (2006)
2006
The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas. Dominic Molon, juror.
Images Included: Quince (2006), Cress (2006)
PUBLICATIONS
2015
EXU Magazine, Robert Boyd
Images Included: Jewel of Jeopardy (Leviathan #2) (Color Test Proof) (2015)
PRESS
2018
Stunningly Unique Art Gifts, Catherine Anspon, Papercity Magazine (online), December 23, 2018. Artwork featured in slideshow curated by the editors.
Art & Life with John Hovig Wide-ranging interview by the editors of Voyage Houston, December 12, 2018.
This Art Stroll Offers a Rare Look Inside the Private Studio Sanctum, Papercity Magazine (online), October 1, 2018. Artwork featured in slideshow as part of promotional content by Sawyer Yards.
Sawyer Yards is Throwing a Mega Art Party as it Expands. Matthew Ramirez, Papercity Magazine (online), April 23, 2018. Artwork featured in slideshow curated by Catherine D Anspon.
2017
Houston’s Most Important Art Auction Moves to Winter Street. Catarina Williams, Papercity Magazine (online), November 6, 2017. Artwork featured in slideshow curated by Catherine D Anspon.
Tips for buying art for your home - it's easier than you think, Diane Cowen, Houston Chronicle, June 22, 2017. Extensively quoted in the article. Photo and artwork accompanying.
Houston's best art galleries and museums, Catherine D. Anspon, PaperCity, June 10, 2017. Labeled as Samara Gallery's "best bet" alongside David Graeve.
2007
New American Talent: The Twenty-Second Exhibition, Salvador Castillo, Austin Chronicle, August 10, 2007.
Excerpts: "The linear elements also recruit John Hovig’s and Felice Grodin’s systematic diagrams. ... If artists have been wandering without direction, forcing jurors to choose work based on their personal interest as evidenced in recent “NAT” shows, then perhaps this year reveals artists inching toward some cohesion. The exploration of urban development and redevelop- ment, as in the landscape works, acts as an admission that we are reaching capacity, even when there is still distance between neighbors. Drawing maps, using lines to describe paths and boundaries, recording where we have been, also defines where we have failed to ven- ture. Rediscovering or, if you must, recontextualizing those places that we experience every day can help remind us that we are where we need to be. It’s not a return to basics, but per- haps we are witnessing a return to structure."
2006
Lawndale's The Big Show opens, Kim Hughes, Houston Chronicle, July 20, 2006. Quoted in article. Two artworks, as an installation shot, appear in the accompanying photo.
PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY
2011 - Left software industry, began art full-time.
2004 - 2006 - Coursework at Glassell School of Art (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX)
1994 - M.S. in Computer Science (concentrating on Artificial Intelligence) (Champaign IL)
1992 - B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Boston MA)
EXTRA LINKS
http://www.artistrunwebsite.com/blog/2017/Office+Supplies+as+Motif%3A+Art+by+John+Hovig
http://www.click2houston.com/news/sawyer-heights-emerges-as-creative-hub-for-houston
http://www.artistrunwebsite.com/blog/1211/Mechanical+Documentation:+Art+by+John+Hovig
http://www.burningbonespress.com/artists/
