Rainer Hosch

Rainer Hosch’s migration from Vienna to New York City and finally Los Angeles has informed the evolution of his photographic practice. In New York City he focused on documenting the streets, observing urban spaces with raw edges and most importantly the people within. The exploration of street photography is rooted in his work as a portraitist.  Hosch’s second solo exhibition featured black and white portraits or more accurately mug shots of popular culture icons. When he arrived in Los Angeles, Hosch and his family moved to Topanga Canyon, removed from the dense urbanity of the city.


Rainer Hosch was born in 1970 in Vienna, Austria, and moved to New York in 1997. He studied photography at the Institute for Teaching and Research in Graphic Arts, Vienna, and at UCLA. Rainer Hosch is represented at the National Museum of Photography in Denmark.

Solo Shows

2019

Topanga Beach, Gallery Poulsen
Copenhagen, Denmark

2015

Photographs, Gallery Poulsen
Copenhagen, Denmark

2012

New York New York, Gallery Poulsen
Copenhagen, Denmark

2003

Thank You. Museum of the 20th Century 
Vienna, Austria

Selected Group Shows

2020

Apocalypse Now- New Art from New York and Other Places, Part XI
Gallery Poulsen
Copenhagen, Denmark

Together but Separately - An Unusual Group Show Live Gallery Poulsen
Copenhagen, Denmark

2019

Gallery Poulsen at Pulse Miami Beach

Inglorious Basterds- New Art from New York - Part X Gallery Poulsen
Copenhagen, Denmark

2018

The Dean Collection x Bacardi Rum Room
Los Angeles, California

PUSH, Quixote Studios
Los Angeles, California

Once Upon a Time in America
Gallery Poulsen
Copenhagen, Denmark

2017

The Cannonball Run: New Art from New York - Part IV, Gallery Poulsen
Copenhagen, Denmark

2016

Los Angeles Artists for Clean Water
Installation Gallery
Santa Monica, California

2015

The Copenhagen Interpretation
The Lodge Gallery
New York, New York

2014

Artists Across America
Flower Pepper Gallery
Los Angeles, California

Pumpkin Pie
Daniel Rolnik Galler...