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John Hrehov was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, took his B.F.A. at the Cleveland Institute of Art and his M.F.A. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has taught at Purdue University Fort Wayne since 1989, where he is professor of drawing and painting. His paintings — allegorical realism, often classed with magic realism — are drawn from his Fort Wayne home and neighborhood, ordinary rooms and streets charged with symbolic incident.
Hrehov won the New York Foundation for the Arts' Recharge New Surrealist Prize in 2021, chosen from more than 450 artists, and the Gladys Emerson Cook Prize at the National Academy of Design's 167th Annual Exhibition. He is represented by Denise Bibro Fine Art in New York and Gallery Victor Armendariz in Chicago, and his solo exhibitions include the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.
Sources: Purdue University Fort Wayne news center; New York Foundation for the Arts, December 14, 2021.