Hannah Whitaker
American, b. 1980 in Washington, D.C., based in New York, NY.
At first glance, Hannah Whitaker’s photographs might seem like they are the product of cut and paste Photoshop collage, but she creates her images entirely in camera, favoring analogue experimentation to digital manipulation. In her new body of work, instead of deconstructing existing images, she mixes the conventions of photography and abstract art with silhouettes, geometric shapes and colors that play with the ideas of handmade and automated processes.
Hannah holds a MFA from The International Center of Photography and a BA from Yale University.
Selected recent exhibitions
Live Agent, M+B, Los Angeles, 2017
Verbs, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, 2016
Metamorphosis – H. Whitaker, R. van Beek, J. Cockburn, Flowers, London, 2015
Cold Wave, M+B, Los Angeles, 2014
Limonene, Locust Projects, Miami, FL, 2013
Les Rencontres d’Arles, Discovery Award, Arles, France, 2012
Main illustration: Hannah Whitaker Stride 1 and Scott Hammen Place Mattes. Abstract Room exhibition view: Everyday Abstraction: Images at Work, Paris, May 2017.