hloë Hugo-Hamman is an artist and teacher who lives and works in Cape Town. She works across drawing, textiles and sculpture. Her work gives form to psychological worlds that are difficult to put into words.
Using colour, repeated marks and hand-stitched textiles, she explores how inner experience is shaped by social and cultural structures. In doing so, she creates space to question existing systems and consider different ways of seeing and experiencing the world.
Her work has been exhibited at Whatiftheworld in Cape Town, FNB Art Joburg and Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm. She holds a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from the University of Cape Town, a Master of Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cape Town.
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Chloë Hugo-Hamman (*1983) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work explores the tensions between internal landscapes and external systems — tracing how lived experiences of neurodivergence are shaped by and push back against societal norms. Rather than framing these experiences through a lens of pathology, she reimagines them as portals to more livable, imaginative futures. Through dream-like worlds, she layers texture, line, and colour using sewing, drawing, collage, sculpture and installation.
She has exhibited in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Stockholm, including at Whatiftheworld Gallery and Bubblegum Gallery. Chloë holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Cape Town (UCT), a Master’s in Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from UCT.
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