Marcelino Hooi (b. 1993, Netherlands) is a painter based between Amsterdam and Paris. Working in oil, Hooi investigates the relationship between photographic accumulation and painterly consequence - what it means to select one image, from the thousands that accumulate on a smartphone, and render it permanent in paint. He has termed this practice Camera Roll Art, arguing that authorship begins not at the moment of capture but at the moment of selection.

Central to his work is the question of memory. What do we choose to remember, individually and collectively? Why and how do we remember? What part do photographs play in memory, and how?

His paintings, grounded in the textures of urban life, are often quiet, deliberate, and materially dense; restoring weight to images made without awareness of their significance.

Hooi is a founding member of the Frochot Boys collective. His writing on Camera Roll Art is published on Substack.