LaToya M. Hobbs (born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American painter and printmaker best known for her large-scale portraits of black women. Hobbs moved to Baltimore, MD later in her life where she works as a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She gained recognition for her portraiture and figurative imagery in the 2010s, receiving several travel grants and awards in the late twenty teens. Her work addresses the ideas of black beauty and cultural identity that center around being a woman.