American multidisciplinary artist Hannah Witner holds a BFA from Parsons School for Design. Her work spans from colorful, surrealist, and psychological oil paintings, whimsical drawings, and commercial graphic design. 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. Her work combines touches of realism with meta-fiction and comedy and reflects our disorder, dissociation, detachment, individualism, transience, and weird minutia of morphing characters, figures in motion, and layers of absurdity.
Hannah has been a merit studio resident at D'Clinic Studio (Zalaegerzeg, Hungary), Belgrade Art Studio (Belgrade, Serbia), NG Art Creative Residency (Provence, France), Nes Artist Residency (Skagaströnd, Iceland), Zaratan Arte Contemporânea (Lisbon, Portugal), Buinho Creative Hub (Messejana, Portugal), and a studio artist at Goodyear Arts (Charlotte, USA), The Bowery Union (formerly ConArtist Collective; NYC, USA), C-3 Lab (Charlotte, USA). Hannah is a part of a number of artist-run art collectives and studios in NYC, has been included in many exhibits in NYC; she has work in private collections across the US, as well as in Portugal, France, and Germany.
She works as a graphic designer and art director in NYC.
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EDUCATION:
2015 - 2018 BFA: Parsons School for Design; New York, NY
Major in Integrated Design (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
2011 - 2014 Apprenticed with artist Lee Buamgarten at the Civic & Cultural Art Center of Pineville; Charlotte, NC
RESIDENCIES:
2022; Resident Artist, D'Clinic Studio; Zalaegerszeg, Hungary
2022; Resident Artist, Belgrade Art Studio; Belgrade, Serbia
2021; Project Studio, Goodyear Arts; Charlotte, USA
2021; Resident Artist, Buinho Artist Residency; Messejana, Portugal
2020; Guest Resident Artist, NG Art Creative Guest Residency; Eygalières, Provence, France
2020; Resident Artist, Nes Artist Residency; Skagaströnd, Iceland
2020; Resident Artist, Zaratan Arte Contemporânea; Lisbon, Portugal
2020 & 2021; Studio Artist, C-3 Lab; Charlotte, USA
2019; Studio Artist and Collective Member, The Bowery Union (formerly Con Artist Collective); New York, USA
PUBLICATIONS/PRESS:
2023; Artist Talk; Solas Studio
2022; Interview and Artist Talk; D'Clinic Studio
2022; Interview with AucArt
2021; Interview with Visionary Art Collective
2021; Aesthetica Magazine
2021; EmbraceCreatives.com; Home Page Feature
2021: Artist Profile Video Interview with Solas Studio
2021; The Painting Center NYC
2021; booooooom.com | High Frequency
2021; Gallery M&Art agents - Museum of Contemporary Art, Artplu in Shanghai, China
2020; Friend of the Artist Book: Volume 11
2020; ArtJobs.com
AWARDS:
2021; HUG Micro-Grant Awardee, Charlotte is Creative, Charlotte, NC, USA
2020; Shortlisted for Gallerie Heimat Art Prize, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
2020; NG Art Creative Guest Residency, Eygalières, France
2015; Scholarship for Visual Art, Parsons School for Design, New York, NY, USA
2014; Karen Dingledine Scholarship for Visual Art, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
2013; NC Governor's School West Awardee/Attendee in Visual Art; Winston-Salem, NC, USA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2023; SOLO; Paintings by Hannah Witner; Solas Studio; New York, NY
2023; Perspective Redefined; The Painting Center, New York, NY
2022; SOLO; Hannah Witner: Red Flamingo; D'Clinic Studio; Zalaegerszeg, Hungary
2021; FunHaus (guest curator Tiffany Street), Solas Studio, New York, NY
2021; ArtAuc Finder Auction, London, UK
2021; Atopos, The Holy Art, London, UK
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; 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; 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