Hanna Knowles Painting Drawing About Contact

Hanna Knowles (b. 2003, Chicago) is a Providence-based artist, currently studying Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design and focusing on Computation, Technology, and Culture.

Knowles is dedicated to using figurative representation as a means of communicating morbid and tender emotive realities integral to the human experience. Through imagery Knowles explores a kind of existential rumination intended to reach the viewer's thinking feeling consciousness via an opaque path, evading the necessity for language.

Currently Knowles is developing a body of work concerned with the virtually and physically transfused condition of the digital age. As the internet becomes simultaneously ubiquitous and the greatest instrument of mass surveillance in history, she grapples with its presence in every vector of human life. Her work integrates imagery informed by ongoing research, and explores how technology augments the terms and conditions of being, on an individual and global scale. Simultaneously, she faithfully maintains a drawing practice to maintain her humanity.