Libby Hoffenberg (b. 1996, Honolulu) is an artist based in London working across painting and sculpture. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London in 2025, and a BA in the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine from Swarthmore College in 2020
With a background spanning artistic practice and the history and philosophy of science, Hoffenberg’s practice examines how knowledge is formed, structured, and destabilised through visual systems. Her paintings and sculptures operate as “machines” for the disorganisation and reassembly of thought, drawing on the logics of pseudo-rational systems and the mania of belief. Immersing herself in the unstable space between cognition and conviction, she explores how knowledge is constructed, embodied, and undone
Adopting visual languages associated with scientific diagrams, Hoffenberg collapses boundaries between art and knowledge images to question how information is organised and how meaning is produced through visual form. Engaging both scientific and unsanctioned systems of thought—including New Age semiotics and alternative healing ontologies—she centres shifting relationships between perception, language, technology, and belief. Through this, her work opens a vertiginous space of trying to know, where understanding becomes an active, embodied process, inviting viewers to reconsider how sense is made in relation to the world