Hannah Black

Hannah Black
Born	Manchester, London, England
Nationality	British
Education	Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, 2014 Goldsmiths, University of London, (MFA) 2013
Alma mater	University of London
Known for	Film, video, art and writing
Notable work	Dark Pool Party
Style	Mixed media artist
Website	Vimeo accountTwitter account

Hannah Black is a conceptual visual artist and writer. Her work spans video, text and performance and draws on communist, feminist, and afropessimist theory, autobiographical fragments, and pop music.

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 recommendation" 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.

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