Michael Hanna works in a wide range of forms including text, photography, painting, multiples, video, performance and immersive environments. Recent work has taken the form of social and sensory experiments with himself as the subject.
ARTIST BIO
Michael Hanna is an artist based in Craigavon, Northern Ireland. Exhibitions include TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway (2022), PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin Castle (2022), Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2022), Chennai Photo Biennale (2021) and The MAC, Belfast (2020). He recently completed a residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris (2021), and the Freelands Artist Programme (2019-21), a 2-year fellowship with PS², Belfast and Freelands Foundation, London. Michael is a co-founder of AMINI, an artist led initiative for the promotion and critical discussion of artists’ moving image in Northern Ireland.
Yellow Uh Oh, 2022, Michael Hanna, 26 (h) x 22 (w) x 1 (d), Handmade vacuum form (High Impact Polystyrene)
A shot of Compuders!, Neon, 2019, Michael Hanna, Looking Backward solo exhibition, PS², Belfast.
HIS WORK SEEKS TO GENERATE NEW EXPERIENCES WITHIN FAMILIAR STATES BY UNSETTLING THE SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE VERBAL AND THE VISUAL AND THE PERCEPTUAL AND THE CONCEPTUAL, CREATING AN AWARENESS OF PROCESSES THAT OPERATE BELOW THE LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
- Quoted from Short Films About Learning, essay by Catherine Gander
A Living Colour Index (Red Wednesday), 2020, Michael Hanna, online project with The MAC, Belfast
Indoor Sunlight, 2019, Michael Hanna, Looking Backward solo exhibition, installation view, PS², Belfast.
0.1km (Milan 8), 2018, Michael Hanna, 32 x 47cm, Archival pigment print
