Practice
I work with language as material.
Words are my medium. I use them the way others use paint, stone, or sound. I am interested in how language moves through contemporary life. Through screens, jokes, messages, memes, and private thoughts that rarely make it out loud.
My practice spans text-based works, painting, neon, print, installation, sound, performance, and generative systems. The form shifts, but the focus remains the same: language as a mirror of how we live, desire, cope, and disconnect.
I am drawn to the space between sincerity and irony. Between intimacy and distance. My texts are short because that is how we now think and communicate. They borrow the rhythm of internal monologues, notes app confessions, and online culture. They are meant to be read quickly and felt later.
Repetition, variation, and systems play a central role in my work. From handwriting databases to generative machines, from open editions to participatory pieces. Identity, authorship, and meaning are not fixed. They change with context, circulation, and attention.
I am not interested in offering answers or conclusions. I am interested in recognition. That moment where someone feels seen without being explained.
Bio
CB Hoyo is a contemporary artist working across text, painting, drawing, and mixed media. His practice engages with art history, personal experience, and social commentary, often using humor and recognizable references to question ideas of authorship, authenticity, and value.
Initially self taught and dyslexic, Hoyo developed a practice where language becomes both subject and material. He is known for series such as Fakes, in which he reinterprets canonical artworks through a contemporary lens, and Corny Quotes, featuring handwritten texts that reflect on intimacy, identity, and everyday life.
Born in Havana in 1995, Hoyo draws from lived experience and close observation of contemporary culture. His work resonates with a wide international audience and continues to evolve across physical and digital formats.
