Aimée Hoover

Aimée Rolin Hoover is an American painter who has devoted the past 25 years to exploring animal imagery. Her current body of work explores the vital connection between humans and the healing power of the natural world—a relationship she sees as increasingly important in the face of our digitally dominated, indoor lives. She lives in Palos Verdes, California, and maintains a studio in nearby Torrance.

"Encounters with animals—whether approaching a curious horse at a fence line or locking eyes with a wild coyote—have always grounded me in the moment. They grant me access to an internal stillness and a sense of freedom similar to the flow state of creating art itself.

I believe this is the superpower of nature and animals: they help us live more squarely in the moments of our own lives. From the simple joy of playing with our dogs after a long day of work, to staring in awe at an African elephant on the Serengeti, animals have the power to remind us where we actually are in the present.

My paintings are attempts to hold onto these profound but fleeting moments. And to translate them into a visual language that evokes the same groundedness and emotion in the viewer.

My technique is intentionally painterly, gestural, often raw at th...

California State University, Long Beach

2025 REGENESIS II, BG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

2025 REGENESIS I, BG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

2025 PAWS FOR ART, BG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

2024 MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

2023 Sketch for Survival, Gallery@oxo, London, UK and Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh, IE

2022 Peaceable Kingdom, TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA

2018 Director's Choice, 19 Karen Gallery, QLD Australia

2018 FAUNA, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO

2017 27th Annual Holiday Miniatures Show, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO

2017 St. Hilda Annual Art Exhibition, St. Hilda School, Southport QLD, Australia

2017 31st Annual Downlands Art Exhibition, Downlands College, Toowoomba QLD, Australia

2017 Director's Choice, 19 KAREN Gallery, Australia

2016 26th Annual Holiday Miniatures Show, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO

2016 Nature, Light Space and Time Gallery

2016 Animals, Light Space and Time Gallery

2016 Premiere Exhibition, Animal History Museum, Burbank, CA

2015 Selected Works, Elizabeth Gordon Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (January)

2004 The Back Room, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA

2003 Winter Group Show, James Gray Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

2002 Winter Group Show, James Gray Gallery...