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This talk will focus on Hannah Claus’ beginnings at art school and the process that goes into creating her installations.
BIOGRAPHY
Hannah Claus completed her undergraduate work at the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1997 and obtained her Master’s of Fine Art from Concordia University in 2004. Her installations have been exhibited in artist-run centres and public museums throughout Canada, as well as in the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Chile and Mexico. Her work may be found in the Canada Council Art Bank, the Contemporary Art Collection of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Canada, the permanent collection of Museum London (Ontario) and le Musée de la civilization (Québec). In her work, she explores the relationship between the material and immaterial to speak of identity and community, memory and time. Recent solo exhibitions in the past year include cloudscape at Modern Fuel (Kingston), chant pour l’eau at Vaste et vague (Carleton-sur-mer, QC), and touring group exhibitions include Reading the Talk, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, (Oshawa), and Territoires partagées at Action Art Actuel (Saint Jean sur Richelieu, QC). She currently sits on the board of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective and has taught contemporary Indigenous art at Concordia University, McGill University and Kiuna Institute, an Indigenously-run First Nations College in Odanak, Québec. She is of mixed heritage (Euro-Canadian and Mohawk), and is a member of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. She lives and works in Montreal.
Hannah Claus is also speaking in the new Crossing Boundaries series in room PB210 at the Dr. Foster James Penny Building on Thursday, January 29, 7pm
Image: Water song. Photography by Robert Dubé
Contact:
Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca