Southeast Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Hannah Altman

Saturday, October 19, 2019 @ 1:30pm, Graduate Hotel, Sixty Room, 3rd floor

IMAGEMAKER DIALOGUE: Hannah Altman & Peter Cochrane

Hannah Altman is a Jewish American artist from New Jersey. Her work considers relationships between body, interiority, feminine performance, lineage, and the structures that perpetuate them using photographic based media. She will give an artist lecture on her recent works exploring Jewish storytelling, narrative heirlooms, and collective memory.

She has recently exhibited with the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Junior High Gallery, and the University of Passau Germany. Her work has been published in the Carnegie Museum of Art Storyboard, Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, i-D, and others. She has presented lectures on her work and research across the country, including Yale University, Franklin & Marshall College, and the Six x Ate artist lecture series. She is an MFA candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University and 2019 recipient of the Bertha Anolic Israel Travel Award.