contact
subotnickhannah@gmail.com
currently based between Waterville, ME and Providence, RI
Education
2020 MFA Stanford University in Art Practice
2016 BFA Rhode Island School of Design in Film/Animation/Video, with honors
2016 BA Brown University in Modern Culture and Media, magna cum laude
Fellowships
Fulbright Research Fellow in Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands — 2024-25
Residencies
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY — 2017
I-Park Foundation, East Haddam, CT — 2017
Grants
Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, Make Art Grant — 2025
Part-Time Faculty Development Grant, Rhode Island School of Design — 2021
Arthur Bridgman Clark Memorial Fund Fellowship, Stanford University — 2018 through 2020
Pauline Brown Fund for Advanced Research in American Art, Stanford University — 2019 and 2020
Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, Fellowship in Film & Video — 2018
Kenneth Baker ‘69 Memorial Prize, Brown University — 2016
Screenings
2025 Philly Animation Festival - Witch Island
Philadelphia, PA
2025 T-Short Animated Film Festival - Witch Island
Karlsruhe, Germany and online
2025 Anibar Animation Festival - Witch Island
Peja, Kosovo
2025 aCinema: Passerine Desires - Witch Island (curated by Janelle VanderKelen and Taka Suzuki)
Milwaukee, WI
2021 Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation - Labor of Love
Montréal, Canada
2020 Artists’ Television Access - Labor of Love
San Francisco, CA
2020 aCinema: Tectonic Breaths - ourself (curated by Janelle VanderKelen and Taka Suzuki)
Wisconsin, USA
2017 INVIDEO Festival - Venus Hum
Milan, Italy
2017 Alchemy Film Festival- ourself
Hawick, Scotland
2017 Holland Animation Film Festival - Venus Hum
Utrecht, Netherlands
2017 Screen Dance Film Festival - ourself
Stockholm, Sweden
2017 Two Short Nights, Exeter Phoenix - ourself
Exeter, England
2017 Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation - Boneyard Angel
Montréal, Canada
2017 La Fabrique culturelle, Télé-Québec - Boneyard Angel
Canadian Television
2017 Locomocion / Experimental Animation Festival - ourself
Mexico City, Mexico
2017 Moving-Image-Arts International Short Film Festival - ourself
Toronto, Canada
2016 London Experimental Film Festival - Venus Hum
London, England
Exhibitions
2025 Faculty Biennial, Colby Museum of Art
Waterville, ME
2025 Growing the Networks, The WaterFire Arts Center
Providence, RI
2023 Ten Thousand Movements, KANNSKI Gallery
Reykjavík, Iceland
2022 Unbound, Stanford Art Gallery
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2022 Under The Sun and The Moon, Humble Arts Foundation
Humble Arts Foundation, online gallery
2021 RISD Faculty Exhibition and Forum, Chace Center/RISD Museum
Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI
2021 Group Show, Shrine NYC online
New York, NY
2020 Unbound, online MFA thesis highlights
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2019 Venus Hum, CCRMA WAVE at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2019 MFA Now 2019, Root Division
San Francisco, CA
2019 Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Warwick Center for the Arts
Warwick, RI
2019 Easy to Love : Stanford MFA First Year Exhibition, Coulter Gallery
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2015-7 F/A/V Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery - RISD
Providence, RI
2014-6 Annual Brown-Rhode Island School of Design Dual Degree Exhibition, Granoff Center
Providence, RI
Collections
Domus Spinozana, The Hague, NL
Teaching
2025-2026 Colby College, Department of Art
Visiting Assistant Professor
Waterville, Maine
2021-2024 Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Film/Animation/Video
Critic
courses taught : Animation Practices, Film Practices, Intermedia Studio: Open Media, Intermediate Studio: Animation
Providence, Rhode Island
2021 University of Rhode Island, Department of Art and Art History
Instructor
courses taught: Video and Multimedia
Kingstown, Rhode Island
2019 Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History
Instructor
courses taught: Interdisciplinary Animation
Stanford, California
Additional Work Experience
Researcher: for Cunningham, Alla Kovgan, NYC, 2014
archival research in the Merce Cunningham Trust and New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
Puppeteer: assistant to Janie Geiser, Brown University, 2014
puppetry performance, live animation, and fabrication during her residency at Brown University
Dancer: professional training in ballet, modern dance, and folk dance, 1998-2011
Ballet - Vaganova technique
Modern dance - Graham, Ailey, and Cunningham techniques
Folk dance - including traditinoal dances from Hungary, Poland, Spain, and Kazakhstan
Providence, RI - Boston, MA - New York, NY