Erin Hoffman

Erin Hoffman is an interdisciplinary artist who thinks about the complexities of human communication. Working primarily with glass sculpture and installation, Hoffman explores how meaning shifts, distorts, or fractures as it moves between sender and receiver. Through many different forms of transmission, she interrogates how information can be interpreted (or misinterpreted), enjoying the moments when things are misread and transformed into something new and beautiful.

Originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania, Hoffman earned her BFA in Glass from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia (2015). She later worked as the Departmental Assistant in the glass program at the University of Louisville from 2015 to 2018. Hoffman received her MFA in Sculpture and Dimensional Studies from Alfred University in New York (2020). She currently lives and works in San Jose, California, where she has served as Studio Manager at the Bay Area Glass Institute since 2021, helping to grow and sustain a vibrant, community-centered nonprofit glass studio.