EDUCATION
2016 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hill, MI, MFA in Painting
2009 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, B.A. in Fine Arts, Minor: Anthropology
Phi Beta Kappa; Summa cum laude with highest honors in fine arts
2008 Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua NY
AWARDS, GRANTS, and RESIDENCIES
2023 Distinguished Fellow, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts, Rabun Gap, GA
2022 South Arts Southern Prize
Puffin Foundation Grant
South Arts Louisiana Fellow
Platforms Grant, Platforms Fund: a regranting effort of Antenna Gallery, Ashé Cultural Arts Center and Junebug Productions
with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation
2021 Monroe Research Fellow, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2019 Artist-in-Residence, Longue Vue House and Gardens, New Orleans
New Museum Ideascity Production Grant, with support from the NEA
2018-9 Emerging Artist-in-Residence, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
2018 Platforms Grant, Platforms Fund: a regranting effort of Antenna Gallery, Ashé Cultural Arts Center and Pelican
Bomb with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation
2015 Cranbrook Educational Community President’s Award
2014 Merit Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art
2010 Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnston, VT
2009 Mitchell Siporin Memorial Prize for Painting, Brandeis University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Dry Cypress Bayou, Ibis Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
2022 Structural Trap, The Front Gallery, New Orleans LA
2015 Thigmotropia, Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI
2014 Artist Spotlight: Hannah Chalew, Fayetteville Underground, Fayetteville, AK
2013 Nature of the City, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2012 Steady Creep, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Finding Grounding, Barnes Ogden Gallery, LSU College of Art and Design, Baton Rouge, LA
Southern Voices/Global Visions, ArtFields + South Arts, Lake City, SC
Seeing the Unseen: Science and Art, Wignalls Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamongo, CA
Insurgent Ecologies, Antenna Gallery and 3OneOne6, New Orleans, LA
Subduction Zones, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
Paper is People, Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN; San Franscisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
2022 South Arts Fellowship Exhibition, various sites in the South
I Know a Place, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Is it not enough that I smile in the valleys? curated by Take it Easy Gallery, White Space, Atlanta, GA
Home Body, 3 Dots Downtown, State College, PA
if you can see a thing whole… The Art Gallery, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
2021 Eco-Urgency, Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center, Bronx, NY
Trembling Prairie, The Aquarium Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Horizon Flux, Yes We Cannibal, Baton Rouge, LA
Going to the Meadow, ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ
Solastalgia: Book Art and the Climate Crisis, Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
The Future is Present, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
2020 Hot Futures, 912 Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2019 Overgrowth, Longue Vue House and Gardens, New Orleans, LA
American Dream Denied, Newcomb Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Art of the City, Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA
Down to Earth, curated by space-ship.org, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Root Shock, Kniznick Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Circle, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA
Like the Waters We Rise: Climate Justice in Print, Interference Archive, Brooklyn, NY
2018 No Man’s Land, Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA
Constructing the Break, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Let Fossils Turn into Flowers, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Written into Rock, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Fossil Free Festival, New Orleans, LA
2017 Ephemera Obscura, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Paper Menagerie, 5 Press Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 Big Sculpture Show, 333 Midland, Highland Park, MI
Controls and Counter Reactions, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
/’pāpər/, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Promised Land, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes Benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, MI
2015 Midland August, 333 Midland, Highland Park, MI
Metaphyta, 5 Press Gallery, New Orleans, LA
The End is Near, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Pulp Fiction, Dieu Donne, New York City, NY
Allegorical Spaces, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2014 Trans-farm, group show sponsored by apexart, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit, MI
Mark(ing) Time: Works on Paper Invitational, Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont, TX
2013 Crescent City Connection, Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont, TX
Home: Shelter and Habitat in Contemporary Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
2012 Art/Sewn, Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC
Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Lost and Found: Louisiana’s Landscape Revisited, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
COLLECTIONS
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
City of New Orleans, LA
PUBLICATIONS and PRESS
2023 Katy Reckdahl and Jennifer Vogel, “The Scene: Craft in New Orleans; six local artists share the people and spaces that define this city, which is built on the
handmade,” American Craft Magazine, Winter 2024, 38-57.
Shannon Sims, “36 Hours in Acadiana, Louisiana,” The New York Times, November 16, 2023.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/16/travel/things-to-do-cajun-country-acadiana.html
John Kemp, “Repurposing with a Purpose: New Orleans artist Hannah Chalew uses her work as a tool of change,” Louisiana Life, July/August 2023,
24-26.
Halle Parker, “These artists have something to say about the environment. They're using Louisiana dirt to do so,” WWNO New Orleans Public Radio, January 18,
2023.
https://www.wwno.org/coastal-desk/2023-01-18/these-artists-have-something-to-say-about-the-environment-theyre-using-louisiana-dirt-to-do-so
2022 Gabriela Gomez-Misserian, “The Multimedia Maven: A greener future for Louisiana’s threatened landscapes emerges from artist Hannah Chalew’s paintings and
sculptures,” Garden & Gun, October/November 2022,
https://gardenandgun.com/articles/the-multimedia-maven/
Jasmine Liu, “New Orleans-Based Artist Hannah Chalew Wins 2022 Southern Prize,” Hyperallergic, September 2, 2022.
https://hyperallergic.com/757811/new-orleans-based-artist-hannah-chalew-wins-2022-southern-prize/
Allison Young, “Plasticane: In Conversation with Hannah Chalew,” Burnaway, April 25, 2022.
https://burnaway.org/magazine/plasticane-hannah-chalew/
2021 Louis Bury, “Message and Method: Hannah Chalew Interviewed by Louis Bury,” BOMB Magazine, November 29, 2021.
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/message- and-method-hannah-chalew-interviewed/
2020 Chalew, Hannah, “Images of the Anthropocene,” 64 Parishes Magazine, Summer Issue, 2020
2019 Vrankin, Deborah, “Confederate statues, plantation, prison: Artists reclaim sites with ‘Battlegrounds,’” Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2019
Raborn, Dillon, “Nuclear Waste and Chicken Bones: Artist Hannah Chalew asks how we got here— and whats next,” Country Roads Magazine, October 2019
Mcquaid, Cate, “At Brandeis, three women artists rise above devastating forces worldwide,” The Boston Globe, August 21, 2019
2018 Hackett, Ann, “After Us: Hannah Chalew at Grow Dat Youth Farm,” Pelican Bomb, July 13, 2018.
http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2018/after-us-hannah-chalew-at-grow-dat-youth-farm
Tucker, Michael, “Do Your Thing: Art & Nature with Hannah Chalew,” DNO Journal, July 19, 2018.
https://dno.la/blogs/journal/do-your-thing-art-nature-with-hannah-chalew
2017 Scott Campbell, “Hannah Chalew Studio Visit,” Ford Curatorial Fellow Blog at theMuseum of Contemporary Art Detroit, March 7, 2017.
http://mocad.wpengine.com/ ford-curatorial-fellow-blog/hannah-chalew-studio-visit/
2016 Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (Berkeley, CA:UC Press). 166-7.
2015 Matt Rota, The Art of Ballpoint (Beverly, MA: Rockport Publishers). 8-9, 67.
2013 Rebecca Snedeker and Rebecca Solnit, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (Berkeley, CA:UC Press). 47, 151.
2012 Raina Benoit, “Survival Guide: Hannah Chalew,” Pelican Bomb, June 20, 2012. http://pelicanbomb.com/art-review/2012/survival-guide-hannah-chalew
Carolyn Mikulencak, "There Goes the Neighborhood," Oxford American Quarterly, Spring 2012. 106-7.