HANNAH BLACK

b. Manchester, UK
Lives between London, UK, and New York, US
Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, 2014
MFA Art Writing, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2013

Installation view, Fever Dream, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, NL (2023)
Installation view, 2020, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris, FR (2023)
Installation view, 2020, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris, FR (2023)
Hannah Black, Politics (7 Color LED Display), 2023, LED sign, 101.6 x 20.32 cm, 40 x 8 inches
Hannah Black, “There is at least one spot in every dream at which it is unplumbable” (plum pit qi, hyoid bone), 2023, Bronze, 50 x 48 x 12 cm, 19 3/4 x 18 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches
Hannah Black, “The unchecked panhandler is, in effect, the first broken window” (5), 2023, Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 70 x 55 cm, 27 1/2 x 21 5/8 inches
Hannah Black, “The unchecked panhandler is, in effect, the first broken window” (6), 2023, Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 170 x 120 cm, 66 7/8 x 47 1/4 inches
Installation view, Greatest Hits, EKKM, Tallinn, EE (2022)
Installation view, Biennale de l’Art en Mouvement, Geneva, CH (2021)

SELECTED SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS

2024
Marked by a Blank or Occupied by a Lie, Octo Productions, Marseille, FR

2023
2020, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris, FR

2022
Hannah Black & Sophie Friedman-Pappas, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, US
The Meaning of Life, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, CA

2021
Wheel of Fortune, gta exhibitions, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, CH
CLEMENS, JACK, RAMEY, RAYMOND, SAM, schwarzescafe, Luma Westbau, Zürich, CH

2020
Ruin/Rien, Arcadia Missa, London, UK

2019
Dede, Eberhard, Phantom, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE
Beginning, End, None, Performance Space, New York, US

2018
Aeter, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Eden Eden, Berlin, DE
I Need Help, Real Fine Arts, New York, US
ANXIETINA, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH
Why Not Gallery with Zura Tsopurashvili, Tbilisi, GE

2017
Some Context, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
Small Room, mumok, Vienna, AT
Soc Or Barb, Bodega, New York, US

2016
Paris Internationale (with Amalia Ulman), Arcadia Missa, Paris, FR
Screens Series: Hannah Black, New Museum Theater, New York, US
Credits, Big Screen Commission Focal Point Gallery, Southend-On-Sea, UK
Hannah Black & Letitia Beatriz, Transmission, Glasgow, UK
Credits, Lisa Cooley, New York, US

2015
Not You, Arcadia Missa, London, UK

2013
Intensive Care, Legion TV, London, UK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Fever Dream, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, NL
Bad Timing, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
Ways of Living 3.0, Arcadia Missa, London, UK

2022
The Condition of Being Addressable, ICA Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US
Greatest Hits, EKKM, Tallinn, EE
Time out of joint, Museum of Art (Muzeum Sztuki), Lodz, PL
A Fool’s Game Played by Cowards, As It Stands, LA, US
Video Art, organized by Julia Stoschek Collection, Indigo Space, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, MC

2021
Biennale of the Moving Image, The Centre d’Art Contemporian Genève, Geneva, CH
Force Majeure, EIU Tarble Art Centre, Charleston, US
Contamination, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, DE

2020
Busan Biennale, Busan, KR
Manifesta 13, Marseille, FR
Haunted Haus, Swiss Institute, New York, US

2019
Circumscribe, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, DE
Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE

2018
GWTW, Martos Gallery, New York, US
Virginia Woolf, Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK
Eye To Eye, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, US
Give Up The Ghost, Baltic Triennial, Talinn Art Hall, EE

2017
Generation Loss, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, DE
After the Fact: Propaganda in the 21st Century, Lenbachhaus, Munich, DE
Work it, Feel it!, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
Body Language, High Line Art, New York, US
DEEP ANGER TRUE LOVE TENDER CARE, The Horse Hospital, London, UK
If you want to do something, forget this debt, and remember it later, Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City, MX

2016
Being There, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Credits, Lisa Cooley, New York, US
The world no longer exists, *kurator, Rapperswil, CH
No! I Am No Singular Instrument, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, US
The fraud that goes under the name of love, Audain, Vancouver BC, CA
WHATEVER MOVES BETWEEN US ALSO MOVES THE WORLD IN GENERAL, Murray Guy, New York, US
WELT AM DRAHT, Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin, Berlin, DE
Open Source, Gillett Square, London, UK
On Limits: Estrangement in the Everyday, The Kitchen, New York, US
Reena’s Bedstuy Glove Affair, offsite, New York, US
Ways of Living, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Active Ingredient, Lisa Cooley, New York, US
In the Flesh Part 2, Gallery Diet, Miami, US
500 boxes of contraband, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK

2015
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Yarat Contemporary Art Centre, Baku, AZ
Workland: The Fence Is A Narrow Place, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, US
Does Not Equal, W139, Amsterdam, NL
Girls of the Internet Museum, Sala Luis Miro Quesada Garland, Lima, PE

SELECTED TALKS/EVENTS/PROJECTS

2023
False Freedom: Silencing in the Arts on Solidarity with Palestine, 2023, ICA, London, UK

2021
Screening of Aeter (Jack), Aeter (Sam), 2018, Kino Süd, online

2020
Dancing is what we make of falling 2, performance with Precious Okoyomon, OGR Torino, Turin, IT

2019
Carman, Reading, Swiss Institute, New York, US
Collaborative performance with Juliana Huxtable, Performance Space, New York, US

2018
NXIETIN, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH
Anxietina V, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR

2017
ANXIETINA with Bonaventure, ICA London, UK
OR LIFE OR, MoMA PS1, New York, US
Screen: Hannah Black, MOCA, Los Angeles, US

2016
What Time Is It on the Clock of the World?, Stadtkuratorin Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Blackness in Circulation, Open Score, New Museum, New York, US

2015
Projections Program C, New York Film Festival, New York, US
In conversation with Andrea Crespo, Swiss Institute, New York, US
7 on 7, New Museum, New York, US
Biocode, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US

2014
Total Body Conditioning, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, PO
Columbine Library, Societe, with Bunny Rogers, Berlin, DE

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Tate, London (UK); FRAC Lorraine (FR); Mumok, Vienna (AS); Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (DE)