Hannah Whitaker

b. 1980, lives and works in New York.

Hannah Whitaker has had numerous solo exhibitions among them Marinaro Gallery (New York, 2017) M+B Gallery (Los Angeles, 2017, 2014), Galerie Christophe Gaillard (Paris, 2016) Thierry Goldberg Gallery (New York, 2012), and KUMUKUMU (New York, 2010). Selected group exhibitions include Nara Roesler Gallery (Sao Paulo, 2018), Public Art Fund (New York, 2017), Abstract Rooms (Paris, 2017), Taymour Grahne (New York, 2016), Flowers Gallery (London 2016, 2015), M+B Gallery (Los Angeles, 2015), Xippas Gallery (Paris, 2014), George Lawson Gallery (San Francisco, 2014) Cincinnati Museum of Art (2014), Tokyo Institute of Photography (2013), Les Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award (2012), Casey Kaplan Gallery (New York, 2011), ICP Education Gallery (New York, 2010), Work Gallery (New York, 2009), David Zwirner Gallery (New York, 2008) among many others. Whitaker holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from the International Center of Photography. Whitaker shoots with a view camera onto 4×5 sheet-film. The photographs are exposed repeatedly onto the same sheet of film, and each exposure is shot through handmade screens conceived as a part of the set, and go into the making of the photographs.