Teun Hocks is a Dutch photographer who was born in 1947. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Groninger Museum have featured Teun Hocks's work in the past.Teun Hocks's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 5 USD to 8,125 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2002 the record price for this artist at auction is 8,125 USD for Untitled (Man on Bicycle), sold at Rago Arts and Auction Center in 2019. Teun Hocks has been featured in articles for Artkrush and The New York Times. The most recent article is Paris Photo Brightens the City of Light written for Artkrush in November 2009.
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..He is known for his humorous self-portraits, where he uses oil paint to hand colour the black and white photos he made with an analogue camera...
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..Hocks' photographic paintings are tedious with layers of production that reveal the enduring patience of the artist while challenging the acute eye of his viewers...
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..For example, in his Untitled (crossroad) we find Hocks confronted with a choice of paths and instead, his reaction is to dig himself into the proverbial hole...
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..Hocks himself usually features as the main actor in his work, although there do exist a few rare pieces where the artist is nowhere to be found...
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