Justin Hoekstra was born in 1980 and raised in the southern and the western suburbs of Chicago mostly, apart from a couple/few years in Minneapolis.
Rising from a modest blue collar background he went on to attend one of the most highly respected graduate study programs in the world in Baltimore.
Their work is included in collections both public and private alongside important personal artistic influences like Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, John Singer Sargent, Pablo Picasso, Agnes Martin, Mark Rothko, and Alberto Burri among many other artists whom he holds in high regard.
Currently lives and works in Kingston, NY.