_ABOUT

I believe in forgiveness.

I believe in the future.

I believe in this body,

the landscape,

and the weather.

Hannah Elizabeth Bevens is a writer and performative service worker. They received their BFA in Painting with a Minor in Theatre Production from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and their MAT as well as their MFA from Maine College of Art and Design. Hannah’s studio is currently based in Rockland, Maine. Their work draws on visual didactics, poetry, and relational aesthetics to develop services that provide a practice for future living.

_EXPERIENCE

Lights Out Gallery x Fort Hall Gallery, the House support itself, January/February, 2024

Dacha Space, Rockland, ME, HAUNTED SUMMER, July, 2023

The Steelhouse, Rockland, ME, OF MUD AND FOG, April, 2023

Gallery 263, Boston, MA, Shapeshifting, October 2022

Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Artist Resident Program, January 2022

Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, Word of Mouth, January 2022

ICA at MECA, Portland, ME, 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition (My construction is my purpose and this is what gives me freedom.), May 2021

Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA, Those Spaces Between Us, 2020-2021

New Systems Exhibitions, Portland, ME, Our Bodies Know Where They Are Meant To Be, 2020

Museum of Mississippi Delta, Greenwood, MS, 4 Artists, 2020

Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN, Color Schemes, 2019

Erin Hutton Productions, Portland, ME, Experimentation Station (Feature Artist), 2019

MECA, Portland, ME, Ritual / Power, 2019

Creative Portland, Portland, ME, Immersion, 2019

PortFringe, Portland, ME, Quapico, 2018

Kingston, NY, HOMOWreckers Presents, 2015 - 2017

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, BFA Thesis Exhibition (Things I Need), 2013

Apostrophe NYC, New York, NY, Failure to Communicate, 2013

New Paltz, NY, 158 Salon Productions, 2011 - 2013