About the Artist.
Hannah Witner is a visual artist and designer originally from Charlotte, NC, USA, and currently based in New York City. She earned a BFA in Integrated Design from Parsons School for Design in 2018. Her work spans from colorful, surrealist, and psychological oil paintings, whimsical drawings, and experimental & commercial design. Hannah is a multidisciplinary artist: at the heart of her work lies a passion for uncovering the hidden potential of materials, psychological processes, and the human condition, which she undertakes in a spirit of curiosity and experimentation.
Hannah has been a studio resident at NES Artist Residency, Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, ConArtist Collective, and C-3 Lab. Hannah is represented by PIAPH Gallery in New York City and is a part of a number of art collectives. She has exhibited in and has work in public and private collections across the USA and Europe.
She works as a freelance designer at a multidisciplinary design agency in downtown Manhattan.
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Lives and works between Brooklyn, NY, and Charlotte, NC
b. 1995 Charlotte, NC USA
EDUCATION:
2015 - 2018 BFA: Parsons School for Design; New York, NY
Major in Integrated Design, minors in Fine Art and Graphic Design
Summa cum laude, honors; BFA Merit Scholarship for Visual Art
2014 - 2015 Wake Forest University; Winston-Salem, NC
Karen Dingledine Presidential Scholarship for Visual Art
2013 NC Governor's School West Awardee in Visual Art; Winston-Salem, NC
2011 - 2015 Apprenticed with artist Lee Buamgarten at the Civic & Cultural Art Center of Pineville (CCAC); Charlotte, NC
RESIDENCIES
2020; NG Art Creative Residency, Eygalières, Provence, France
2020; NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2020; Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
2020; C-3 Lab, Charlotte, NC, USA
(2021 forthcoming); ArtBox Residency, Novi Sad, Serbia
(2021 forthcoming); Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory (ACSL) Art Commune Artist-in-Residence; Yerevan, Armenia
(2021 forthcoming); D'Clinic Studios Tractor Artist Residency, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary
(2021 forthcoming); Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, USA
2019; The Bowery Union (formerly Con Artist Collective NYC), New York, NY, USA
REPRESENTATION:
PIAPH Gallery, New York, NY
MEMBER COLLECTIVES:
Solas Studio; New York, NY, USA
The Bowery Union, New York, NY, USA
PUBLICATIONS:
2020; Friend of the Artist: Volume 11
PRESENTATIONS:
2020; Artist Talk; NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2020; Artist Talk; Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
2020; Guest Panelist; Parsons School for Design Navigating the Field Lecture, New York, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2020; Creatures, Beasts, and Myths; The Vacant Museum; Virtual
2020; SOLO; Hannah Witner: To Be, Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
2020; Street Gallery Project Retrospective, The Bowery Collective, New York, NY
2020; Street Gallery Project, The Bowery Collective in Soho, New York, NY
2020; Showcase, 627 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
2020; Year of the Fancy Rat, 69 Eldridge St, New York, NY
2020; PIAPH Grand Opening, 198 Allen St, New York, NY
2020; State of ReUnion, The Bowery Union, New York NY
2020; National Exhibition of American Art: Altered States (used as promo image for the show); Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
2019; Showcase, 166 Bowery, New York, NY
2019; CONstitution, Con Artist Collective, New York, NY
2019; Les Femmes, Rue B, New York, NY
2019; Artist Showcase, Rue B, New York, NY
2019; March Studio Residency Showcase, Con Artist Collective, New York, NY
2019; Spring, Con Artist Collective, New York, NY
2019; Handle with Care, Con Artist Collective, New York, NY
2019; Poetry, Con Artist Collective, New York, NY
2019; February Studio Residency Showcase, Con Artist Collective, New York, NY
2019; Listen!, Con Artist Collective, New York, NY
2019; The Thread, Con Artist Collective, New York, NY
2019; BFA Integrated Design Thesis Show, Parsons School for Design, New York, NY
2016; Monumental Public Space & The Human, State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2015; Parsons Pop-Up/Print Shop, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, New York, NY
2015; Student Art Exhibition, Hanes Gallery of Art, Winston-Salem, NC
2015; Student Art Exhibition, StArt Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
2014; PaperMade Exhibition, Federation University, Sydney, Australia
2014; Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Group Exhibition, Spirit Square Galleries, Charlotte, NC
2013; Site-specific installations: Forgotten Spaces; Winston-Salem, NC
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Private Collections: New York City, North Carolina, Germany, France, Portugal
Wake Forest University Art Collection, Winston-Salem, NC
Parsons School for Design Art Collection, New York, NY