Hannah Black

Black was born in Manchester, England. She currently lives in Berlin, Germany, but mostly works in London and New York City.

In 2013, Black received a Masters of Fine Arts in Art Writing from the public research institution Goldsmiths College, University of London. From 2013-2014, she lived in New York City where she was a studio participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program. 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." She is represented by the London gallery Arcadia Missa.

In 2014, Black was a contributing editor to the New York-based magazine, The New Inquiry.

In 2016, Black's 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."

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. Black's letter advocated for the removal of the painting with the additional "urgent reccomendation" that it be destroyed.

Black wrote:

Black's letter became the focus of an ensuing debate around race, representation, and notions of free speech that "split the art world." The controversy received international attention in both mainstream and art media.

Solo/duo exhibitions

• Small Room, mumok, Vienna (2017)
• Soc or Barb, Bodega, New York (2017)

• Paris Internationale (with Amalia Ulman), Arcadia Missa, Paris (2016)
• Screens Series: Hannah Black, New Museum Theater, New York (2016)
• Credits, Big Screen Commission Focal Point Gallery, Southend-On-Sea (2016)
• Hannah Black & Letitia Beatriz, Transmission, Glasgow (2016)
• Credits, Lisa Cooley, New York (2016)
• Not You, Arcadia Missa, London (2015)
• Intensive Care, Legion TV, London (2013)

Group Exhibitions

• If you want to do something, forget this debt, and remember it later, Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City (2017)
• Being There, Vilma Gold, London (2016)
• The world no longer exists, *kurator, Rapperswil (2016)
• No! I Am No Singular Instrument, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles (2016)
• The fraud that goes under the name of love, Audain, Vancouver (2016)
• WHATEVER MOVES BETWEEN US ALSO MOVES THE WORLD IN GENERAL, Murray Guy, New York (2016)
• WELT AM DRAHT, Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin, Berlin (2016)
• Open Source, Gillett Square, London (2016)
• On Limits: Estrangement in the Everyday, The Kitchen, New York (2016)
• Reena’s Bedstuy Glove Affair, offsite, New York (2016)
• Ways of Living, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2016)
• Active Ingredient, Lisa Cooley, New York (2016)
• In the Flesh Part 2, Gallery Diet, Miami (2016)
• 500 boxes of contraband, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow (2016)
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Yarat Contemporary Art Centre, Baku (2015)
• Workland: The Fence Is A Narrow Place, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles (2015)
• Does Not Equal, W139, Amsterdam (2015)
• Girls of the Internet Museum, Sala Luis Miro Quesada Garland, Lima (2015)

Performances/screenings/talks

• OR LIFE OR, performance in collaboration with Bonaventure and Ebba Fransén Waldhör, MoMA PS1, New York (2017)
• Screen: Hannah Black, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2017)
• APOCALYPTIC THINKING WITH HANNAH BLACK AND EVAN CALDER WILLIAMS, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York (2016)
• Anxietina: performance with Bonaventure, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2016)
• ‘Capacity’, This is Public Space, Up Projects, London (2016)
• Finding the Body: The Last Transgression?, Central Saint Martins, London (2016)
• What Time Is It on the Clock of the World?, Stadtkuratorin Hamburg, Hamburg (2016)
• Recognizing, Imagining, Relation., Hester, New York (2016)
• Blackness in Circulation, Open Score, New Museum, New York (2016)
• Edition, Toronto (2016)
• YES SCREAMING NO, The One Minutes, Intersections, ArtRotterdam, NL (2015)
• Perspectives, Framer Framed, Amsterdam (2015)
• ‘Fall of Communism’, Image Festival winner, Overkill Award,, Toronto (2015)
• Canon Today, TZK Gala Conference, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin (2015)
• In conversation with Andrea Crespo, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York (2015)
• 7 on 7, New Museum, New York (2015)
• Biocode, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2015)

• Projections Program C, New York Film Festival, New York (2015)
• Screening #1 London, Schwarzwallee, Basel

• Total Body Conditioning, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2014)

• City Built At Night, Rematerialising Feminism, Arcadia Missa, London (2014)
• Columbine Library, Societe, with Bunny Rogers, Berlin (2014)

Publications

• Life (with Juliana Huxtable, mumok, 2017)
• Dark Pool Party (Dominica, Arcadia Missa, 2016)

Essays

• Witch-Hunt (Tank, 2017)
• THE IDENTITY ARTIST AND THE IDENTITY CRITIC (Artforum, 2016)
• This is Crap (Frieze, 2016)
• A Kind of Grace (Harper's Magazine, 2016)
• the 9th Berlin Biennale (Artforum, 2016)
• Fractal Freedoms (Afterall, 2016)

• Social Life (Texte zur Kunst, 2015) [1]

• Crazy in Love (The New Inquiry, 2014) [2]
• The Loves of Others (The New Inquiry, 2014) [3]
• My Gay Shame, or, How Patriarchy Stole Sex (The New Inquiry, 2014)