Sculptor

Boky Hackel

Exploring the mysteries of time and being

Portrait of the sculptor Boky Hackel

Rough reflections and noble materials come together in perfect synergy to emphasise the dichotomy of humankind — an homage to all those who have inspired her, and all those who continue to be inspired by life itself.

The Artist

Biography

Boky Hackel — born in Reinfelden, Germany, on May 6, 1964, and raised in Costa Rica and Venezuela.

Boky Hackel has been sculpting for just over a decade. Initially learning under the guidance of Blake Ward, she quickly took the creative direction into her own hands.

Her artistry has evolved with her since birth, initially inspired by the wilderness that cradled her creative spirit in the depth of the Costa Rican jungle were nature and nurture became one. The sky was her first playground. Her. mother an accomplished feminist and acrobatic commercial pilot gave Boky a bird’s eye view of life that would later shape her perspective on the human experience which she has made her mission to share on a spiritual an emotional level through her creative endeavours.

From photography, film, poetry, music, conceptual art which all comes together in her sculptural body work which explores the mysteries of time and being through light, steel, poetry, bronze and gold. Rough reflections and noble materials come together in perfect synergy to emphasise the dichotomy of human kind. An Homage to all those who have inspired her and all those who continue to be inspired by life itself.

1981 - 1985

University of Miami - Film School

1985 - 1987

Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts - Degree in Recording Engineering

1990 - 1991

Relocates to Florence and joins l'Instituto per l'Arte ed il Restauro, Palazzo Spinelli. Joins the Old Master Paintings Restoration Program, simultaneously studion Antique's Trade and Marketing

1991– 1996

TBC

1996 - 2000

Florida Atlantic University - Bachelor in Music ; Honors Program in Composition and Historical Musicology from the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. Graduating summa cum laude, Phi Kappa Phi Honors society and National Dean's List.

2003

Moves to Monaco - Pocock and Pocock Antiques, Maison d'art and MDA Today

2011

Begins working with Blake The Spirits Collection — embracing negative space, crossing into the abstract and ethereal with exposed interior landscapes.

2016

Creates her first solo piece

Across Three Continents

Exhibited In

United States

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Canada

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France

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Italy

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Monaco

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Switzerland

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Germany

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England

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Vietnam

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Singapore

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Malaysia

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Hong Kong

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India

40+

Years Sculpting

4

Major Collections

13

Countries Exhibited

3

Continents

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Artnet News · Feature

The Restless Gaze and the Divided Ego

“Enigmatic faces, masks, broken bronze portraits covered with gold leaf or platinum by Boky Hackel-Ward present reinterpretations and transfigurations of her enigmatic face — sphinxes of mystery that materialise a tenacious will to affirm her artistic identity.”

Jacqueline Ceresoli, Art Critic

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