Ania Hobson, born 1990 in Suffolk, UK, obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Ipswich University Suffolk in 2011. In 2017 she was awarded the Young Artist Award of the BP Portrait Awards, granted by the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK. The artist has participated in the PLOP Residency, London, UK, 2021 and The Fores Project Residency, London, UK, 2020.