It’s been a while since Trenton Doyle Hancock has been this visible—when he showed at the Whitney Biennial in 2000 he was the youngest artist to ever be included, aged twenty-six. This year is something of a comeback: a solo at Mass MoCA in March, and before that you can get a taste of the Moundverse—a fantastical, metaphorical space—in an exhibition at Shulamit Nazarian, which is, unbelievably, his first ever show in Los Angeles. Presented like a graphic novel, Hancock’s work is inspired by his extraordinary life story, growing up in Paris, Texas in a religious family, and his encounters as a black youth in a town that was home to vegans and an active Ku Klux Klan.
