Hannah Subotnick (b.1992, Providence, RI) was born in a blizzard during a lunar eclipse. She is a multidisciplinary artist working in film, animation, photography, dance, sound, textiles, and installation. She holds an MFA from Stanford University in Art Practice, a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Film/Animation/Video, and a BA from Brown University and Modern Culture and Media. She received professional training in ballet, modern dance, and folk dance.
Through her work, she explores the life in the inanimate, bodies described by their absence, and the tension between sexual intimacy and seclusion. Although her work crosses many disciplines, at its core is a love of the transformative potential of the lens and its ability to abstract, reveal, and transport. Direct physical experience is important to her in her making process.
Hannah has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2017) and I-Park Foundation, East Haddam, CT (2017). She has been awarded grants from the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, Stanford University, and the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts. Her films have screened internationally.
She is a Critic in the Film/Animation/Video department at the Rhode Island School of Design teaching Animation and Open Media. She has previously been an Instructor at the University of Rhode Island teaching Video/Multimedia and at Stanford University teaching Interdisciplinary Animation.
