About
I am Zeke Hodo, an Arizona-based digital artist working through digital art and digital painting.
My work begins with the internal: the places where identity, memory, isolation, communication, and contradiction overlap. I am interested in the instability of experience—how a person can feel both intensely present and strangely distant, how memory can become fragmented, and how much of what we experience remains difficult to communicate.
I use digital imagery as a space for that tension.
My work is often concerned with the gap between what is felt and what can be expressed, between internal experience and external reality, and between the person we understand ourselves to be and the person others perceive. Rather than treating an image as a fixed answer, I use it as a space where contradiction can exist.
Practice
Digital art and digital painting rooted in psychological, introspective, and fragmented experience.
Recognition
First Place in Arizona’s 4th Congressional District Congressional Art Competition, followed by exhibition in the United States Capitol.
Arts work
Curatorial collaboration, interdisciplinary projects, public radio coverage, and current professional experience at Sedona Arts Center.
A practice moving between the intimate and the public.
My practice has developed through individual studio work and collaborative engagement with the arts. In 2021, my work Everywhere at the Same Time was exhibited in the Cannon Tunnel of the United States Capitol for one year after receiving First Place in Arizona’s 4th Congressional District Congressional Art Competition. In 2023, I co-created and co-curated Onyx: An All-Black Art Exhibition while also exhibiting my own work. The project was presented during Flagstaff’s First Friday Art Walk and received coverage from KNAU Arizona Public Radio. This website is an evolving archive of that practice.