Peter Hocking is an inter-disciplinary artist working in Providence, Rhode Island. His work is primarily concerned with narrative and the construction of identity within the context of contemporary social and political life. His current projects, The Biological Father and Men Like That: One-Hundred Queer Men, are meditations on the nature of masculinity and inquiries into the construction of contested identity. The Biological Father attempts to imagine a biological father/son relationship Hocking has never experienced and, in the process, asks questions about genetic family, adoption, and the construction of "the self" in the absence of biological clues. One-Hundred Queer Men documents a diversity of queer representation against a backdrop of political discrimination, social assumptions, and religious hatred. In the process, Hocking is attempting to ask questions about the nature of being in a time of rapid social transformation.

In addition to working as an artist, Hocking is also the director of the Office of Public Engagement at Rhode Island School of Design and a faculty member in Goddard College's MFA in Interdisciplinary Art.