8/9/11 - "Silencio Para Cinco," part of SANFIC, the Santiago Film Festival, at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Santiago (Chile) until September 10

8/2/11 - "We who saw signs" (group show) at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore until September 4

8/2/11 - "videoderive dell'arte_3" (group) at the Museo Civico Villa Dei Cedri until September 25

7/23/10 - "Denys Arcand et Adad Hannah feront Big Bang au MBAM" article by Éric Clement in La Presse (in French)

7/28/11 - "Urban Video Project Summer Review: Adad Hannah" (solo) at the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse NY) until August 14

7/16/11 - "Corporel" (group) at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain until August 6

7/8/11 - "Summer Live: time-based video program" (group), curated by Marlene Madison, in Stanley Park (Vancouver) until July 10

7/15/11 - "Lies that Tell the Truth" (group) at the Khyber Arts Centre, hosted by the Centre for Art Tapes (Halifax) until August 14

6/9/11 - "In Between Frames" (group) at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (Romania) until August 28

5/19/11 - Participation in the Prague Biennial 5, until September 11

4/27/11 - "Purloined Stories" (group) curated by Sandy Saad at the Doris McCarthy Gallery (Scarborough) until May 21

1/24/11 - "Objet indirect objet" production residency at DAÏMÕN's Studiõ (Gatineau) until February 4, exhibition from March 23 - April 23

12/1/10- Group exhibition at AQUA Art Miami - December 1-5, 2010

11/27/10 - "No Windows" (group) at the UBC Satellite Gallery (Vancouver), until January 23, 2011

11/25/10 - "Into the Eye of the Storm" (group) at the Israeli Center for Digital Art (Holon), curated by Chen Tamir, as part of VIDEOZONE V, the 5th International Video Art Biennial in Israel, until February 26, 2011

11/23/10 - unveiling of plans for Leap, a public artwork commissioned for the facade of the PERFORM Centre, Concordia University (Montreal)

11/10/10 - "Cuba Still (Remake)" (solo) at Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery (Whitehorse) as part of the Momentum series, a touring project from the Collection of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, until December 22

11/05/10 as part of "it Is What It Is: Recent acquisitions of new Canadian Art" (group show) at the National Gallery of Canada until April 10, 2011

10/28/10 - Video series "Traces" acquired by the Art Gallery of Ontario at Art Toronto 2010 - article from CBC online

10/08/10 - "Unwrapping Rodin" as part of the exhibition featuring the Quebec semi-finalits for the 2010 Sobey Art Award, at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, opening on October 8

9/28/10 - "Adad Hannah: breaking the pose for contemporary art lovers' viewing pleasure" article by Lucinda Catchlove on nightlife.ca

9/21/10 - "The Medium is Not the Message: Adad Hannah" article by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin on PBS's Art21 website (blog)

9/18/10 - "Tactful Rituals - Québec City" (group) as part of the Liverpool Biennial, opens September 18 and runs until 28 November

Born in New York in 1971, lives and works in Montreal. Since 2001 Adad Hannah has been working on his series Stills consisting of silent videos that exist at the intersection of performance, photography, and video. Based on the 19th-century practice of tableaux vivants, Hannah’s videos, photographs, and installations look at how we perform as spectators, and how our gaze can be a constructive one as we try to make sense of ourselves and the world around us.

He has exhibited at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (2008), the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (2008), Zendai MoMA, Shanghai (2009), Ke Center for Contemporary Art (Shanghai 2008), the Vancouver Art Gallery (2007), the National Gallery of Canada (2011, 2006), Ikon Gallery (Birmingham 2006), the 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (2006), Casa Encendida (Madrid 2006) and Viper Basel (2004). In 2004 he won the Toronto Images Festival Installation/New Media Award, and the Bogdanka Poznanovic Award at Videomedeja 8. His work has been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, the B.C Arts Council, the Vancouver Foundation/Contemporary Art Gallery, the Quebec Delegations and Canadian Embassies in Madrid, Seoul, and New York. He has produced works at museums including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Rodin Gallery (Seoul), and the Prado Museum (Madrid).

Hannah’s work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Ke Center for Contemporary Art (Shanghai), the Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw), BMO Financial Group and the Royal Bank of Canada.

December 2011 - AQUA Art Miami (collaboration with Denys Arcand), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
September 2011 - The Russians (solo), at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
July 2011 - Corporel (group), at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
December 2010 - AQUA Art Miami (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
October 2010 - Toronto International Art Fair (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
June 2010 - Looking Back (group show). at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
April 2010 - NEXT - the invitational exhibition of emerging art (Chicago), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth (solo)
December 2009 - Fluid Boundaries (group), at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
October 2009 - Toronto International Art Fair (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth (solo spaces project)
October 2009 - Raft of the Medusa (100 Mile House) duo with Marc Audette at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
March 2009 - Pulse New York (solo), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
December 2008 - Photo Miami (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
October 2008 - Toronto International Art Fair (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
May 2008 - LOOP video art fair (solo) Barcelona, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
May 2008 - Reflections (solo), at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
December 2007 - Photo Miami (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
October 2007 - Toronto International Art Fair (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
October 2007 - Show Off (group) Paris (group), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
May 2007 - LOOP video art fair (solo) Barcelona, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain booth
February 2007 - DiVA New York (solo), presented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
September 2006 - Paul Butler's Collage Party (group), at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain

PDF version of the brochure published for "Masterpieces in Motion," solo exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2010)
Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin. "The Medium is Not the Message: Adad Hannah"PBS Art21, 21 September 2010 (blog)
Mark Clintberg. "Adad Hannah: Masterpiece Theatre" Canadian Art Fall 2009
Richard Rhodes. "Top Ten Exhibitions of 2008" Canadian Art (online) Jan, 2009 (scroll down)
Interview with Adad Hannah during his participation in the Québec Triennial (2008) at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (YouTube)
"Adad Hannah: Mirrors that Conceal" Canadian Art (web) 4 June 2008
"Ways of Thinking" exhibition overview of Recast and Reshoot, presented at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Galery during Le Mois de la Photo 2007
Andrea Carson. "Adad Hannah Speaks!" (interview) View on Canadian Art (blog) 11 October 2007
Tim McKeough. "Straight to Video" enRoute magazine 1 August 2007
Interview in Flasher.com with Adad Hannah (YouTube): Part I , Part II , Part III

click icon below to download a recent C.V. of the artist (adobe PDF)



Sep 2010