Hannah Day's Projects

BFA Student

Major: Painting

Graduation Year: 2020

Biography:

Hannah Day (b.1997) is currently based in Portland, Maine. She grew up on the coast of Maine, spending most of her time on the water, living aboard boats. She summered on a small island where she fished for her food and woke up to the noise of seagulls and diesel lobster boats at the crack of dawn. From a young age she cultivated a deep attachment to the ocean, where she found familiarity and comfort. Day is primarily known for her abstract landscape paintings, and utilizes additive/reductive processes and collections of natural materials in her method of working. Her practice is entangled with dualities: abstraction and figuration, consciousness and unconsciousness, violence and serenity, industrial and organic, and decay and reparation. Day thinks of painting as an act of healing where she is permitted to navigate thoughts and hard truths on a personal and societal level. From 2015 to 2017, Hannah Day attended San Francisco Art Institute where she studied environmental philosophy and studio art. Hannah continued her education at Maine College of Art where she received a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2020. Hannah Day received the Winslow Homer Endowed Scholar Award for excellence in painting in 2019, and the MECA Presidential Scholarship 2020. She has worked as an Art Handler at the Institute of Contemporary Art, located in Portland, Maine and at the San Francisco Art Institute. Recent exhibitions include: Nurture in Nature, at Zand Head Gallery 2018, (Portland, Maine) and Sediment, at Friedman Gallery, 2019 (Portland, Maine).

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