Hannah Black

Hannah Black is a visual artist and writer. Her work spans video, text and performance and draws on communist, feminist, and afropessimist theory, autobiographical fragments, and pop music.[1][2]

Hannah Black
Born
Manchester, London, England
NationalityBritish
EducationWhitney Independent Study Program, New York, 2014
Goldsmiths, University of London, (MFA) 2013
Alma materUniversity of London
Known forFilm, video, art and writing
Notable work
Dark Pool Party
StyleMixed media artist
WebsiteVimeo accountTwitter account

Early life

Black was born in 1981 in Manchester, England. She is currently based in New York City, though she has previously been based in Berlin and London.[3]

Career

In 2013, Black received a Masters of Fine Arts in Art Writing from the public research institution Goldsmiths College, University of London.[4] From 2013 to 2014, she lived in New York City where she was a studio participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program.[4] According to Hatty Nestor in Art in America, "Hannah Black's practice deals primarily with issues of global capitalism, feminist theory, the body and sociopolitical spaces of control."[5] She is represented by the London gallery Arcadia Missa.[6]During her time in NYC, Black was a contributing editor to the New York-based magazine, The New Inquiry.[3] Two years later, her first collection of writing titled Dark Pool Party was published. The book consists of seven texts "that blur the lines of fiction, nonfiction, cultural criticism, critique, and poetry."[7][8][9]

In March 2017, Black posted an open letter to the curators of the Whitney Biennial to her Facebook page in response to the painting Open Casket by American artist Dana Schutz.[10] Black's letter advocated for the removal of the painting with the additional "urgent recommendation" that it be destroyed.[10] Black's letter became the focus of an ensuing debate around race, representation, and notions of free speech that "split the art world."[11] The controversy received international attention in both mainstream and art media.[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

Partial exhibition history

Hannah Black has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions all around the world including shows at Centre D’Art Contemporain in Geneva[17], Performance Space New York[18], Real Fine Arts[19], Bodega[20] and the New Museum Theater[21]in New York, Chisenhale Gallery[22] and David Roberts Art Foundation, in London[23], mumok in Vienna[24], Arcadia Missa in Paris[25], Celaya Brothers Gallery in Mexico City[26], Sala Luis Miro Quesada Garland in Lima, Peru, Yarat Contemporary Art Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan[27], Chateau Shatto in Los Angeles[28], Transmission and David Dale Gallery in Glasgow among others. Black has had performances, screenings of her art and participated in talks at museums like MoMA PS1[29][30][31], Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles[32], Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York[33] Institute of Contemporary Arts, London[34] and more.

References
  1. "The Kitchen: A night with The New Inquiry". thekitchen.org. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  2. "An interview with Hannah Black". atractivoquenobello. June 26, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  3. Hurr, Hannah (May 2015). "Interview with Artist and Writer Hannah Black". The Mask Magazine (16). Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  4. "Contemporary Art Talks: Hannah Black". Goldsmith University. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  5. Nestor, Hatty (January 27, 2016). "Hannah Black – Reviews". Art in America. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  6. "Hannah Black | Arcadia Missa". arcadiamissa.com. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  7. "Dark Pool Party by Hannah Black". ENTROPY. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  8. "This is a dark pool party". Rhizome. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  9. "Dark Pool Party, Hannah Black, Dominica/Arcadia Missa". mottodistribution.com. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  10. Kennedy, Randy (March 21, 2017). "White Artist's Painting of Emmett Till at Whitney Biennial Draws Protests". The New York Times. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  11. Smith, Roberta (March 27, 2017). "Should Art That Infuriates Be Removed?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  12. Basciano, Oliver (March 21, 2017). "Whitney Biennial: Emmett Till casket painting by white artist sparks anger". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  13. Helmore, Edward (April 2, 2017). "The painting that has reopened wounds of American racism". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  14. "'The Painting Must Go': Hannah Black Pens Open Letter to the Whitney About Controversial Biennial Work | ARTnews". ARTnews. March 21, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  15. Blay, Zeba (March 22, 2017). "When White People Profit Off Of Black Pain". HuffPost. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  16. Eckardt, Stephanie. ""The Painting Must Go": The Protests and Reactions to Dana Schutz's Painting of Emmett Till in the 2017 Whitney Biennial". W Magazine. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  17. "Hannah Black, Bonaventure, Ebba Fransén Waldhör ANXIETINA – Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève". Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  18. "Beginning, End, None | Performance Space New York". Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  19. "Precious Okoyomon and Hannah Black : Real Fine Arts". Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  20. "Bodega". bodega-us.org. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  21. "Screens Series: Hannah Black". newmuseum.org. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  22. "Hannah Black". chisenhale.org.uk. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
  23. "Exhibition: Curators' Series #9. Ways of Living. By Arcadia Missa (15 Apr – 23 Jul 2016) | DRAF – David Roberts Art Foundation". DRAF – David Roberts Art Foundation. November 13, 2015. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  24. "Hannah Black". mumok.at. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  25. "Paris Internationale 2016, Arcadia Missa". Arcadia Missa. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
  26. "If you want to do something, forget this debt, and remember it later – Celaya Brothers Gallery". celayabrothersgallery.com. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  27. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Yarat Contemporary Art Space | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  28. "Workland: the fence is a narrow place | Chateau Shatto". chateaushatto.com. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
  29. "Hannah Black's Performance "OR LIFE OR" at MoMA PS1". artnet News. April 11, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  30. "Hannah Black, OR LIFE OR | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  31. "Role Play: At MoMA PS1, Hannah Black Alights as Artist and Heroine | ARTnews". ARTnews. April 14, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  32. "SCREEN: Hannah Black". The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
  33. "Conversation | Apocalyptic Thinking with Hannah Black and Evan Calder Williams | Swiss Institute". www.swissinstitute.net. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
  34. "ANXIETINA: A performance by Hannah Black and Bonaventure". ica.art. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
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