Magnus Peterson Horner

These portraits are inspired by a young boy on the brink of adolescence. The boy is straddling between childhood and adulthood, between what he knows and does not know, between dark and light, as part of himself may become buried. These paintings show growth and change but they also explore the liminal space of the in-between. This turbulent time in everybody’s life may – for some – never end, never getting the relief of being uncertain.

Magnus Peterson Horner (b. 1997, Oxford, England) lives and works in New York, NY. He attended Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany from 2017-2018 and received his BFA from Cooper Union School of Fine Art in 2019. Recent exhibitions include Magnus Peterson Horner & McKinney, GandtX, Gandt, Queens, NY (2020).