Adad Hannah

Adad Hannah creates artworks in installation, video, and photography, often in collaboration with a community of people. Much of his work draws upon the history of early photography and cinema to reimagine the art historical canon. Attuned to our experience of time, Hannah’s works also invite audiences to place themselves within a given moment of history.

Hannah was born in New York in 1971 and has called Vancouver home for many years. He holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and an MFA and a PhD from Concordia University. His work has been recently exhibited across Canada and internationally with exhibitions in Vancouver, Calgary, Saskatoon, Kitchener, Toronto, Montreal, St. Johns, Paris, Marseille, Seoul, Basel, Porto Allegre, Dakar, Lagos, San Antonio, Melbourne, Bucharest, and many others.

His work is represented in public collections globally, including the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée Rodin (Paris), Israeli Center for Digital Art (Holon), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), LEEUM Museum (Seoul), Monash University (Melbourne).

He has won a number of awards, including the Canada Council for the Arts’ Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for outstanding mid-career artists in 2009. Hannah is represented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain in Montreal and Equinox Gallery in Vancouver.