Hannah Chalew
b. 1986, Baltimore, MD
lives in New Orleans, LA
Hannah Chalew is an artist, educator and environmental activist raised and currently working in New Orleans. She received her BA from Brandeis University in 2009 and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2016. Chalew has exhibited widely around New Orleans and has shown around the country at the Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO; Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx, NY; Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Dieu Donné, New York, NY; Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC, and other venues. Her work has been featured in Garden&Gun, BOMB, Hyperallergic, Burnaway, the LA Times, the Boston Globe and more. Her work is held in the collections of the City of New Orleans and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. She is the 2022 South Arts Southern Prize winner as well as the South Arts Louisiana State Fellow. Her artwork explores what it means to live in an era of global warming with an uncertain future. It unearths the historical legacies that got us here to help imagine new possibilities for a livable future. Her work is specifically rooted in Southern Louisiana, where she lives, as a microcosm of our shifting time.
Photo: Justen Williams
