Hanna Kay’s life has been marked by significant journeys.
She left her native Israel to study in Vienna, spent a decade living and working in New York, another decade in Sydney, and now makes her home in the beautiful landscape of the Upper Hunter. A prolific practitioner, her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, and throughout regional Australia. Her work, too, maps memory and experience.
An interest in landscape and natural processes of growth and decay are central to her practice.
Curriculum Vitae
Born in Tel-Aviv, Israel
Lives and works in the Hunter Valley NSW, Australia.
EDUCATION
BA Semiotics and Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia
PhD, University of Sydney, Australia (awarded 2017)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Aspects, Weswal Gallery, Tamworth, NSW
Equilibrium 2, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney
Shifting Horizons, College of the Arts, University of Sydney (PhD exhibition)
Shifting Horizons, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney
Three Women Went to China, Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery
Three Women Went to China, Tamworth Regional Art Gallery, NSW
In Flux, Weswal Gallery, Tamworth, NSW
Trajectory: recent works 2010-2014, Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery NSW
Equilibrium, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney
Undertow, Hervey Bay Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Circularity, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney (formerly Wilson St. Gallery)
Undertow, Orange Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Undertow, Dalby Regional Art Gallery, QLD
Undertow, Moree Plains Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Undertow, Australian Jewish Museum, Melbourne
Weightlessness, Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery
Undertow, Maitland regional Art Gallery, NSW
Undertow, Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, QLD
Undertow, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Waterways, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney (formerly Wilson St. Gallery)
Undertow, Tamworth Regional art Gallery, NSW
Habitat, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney (formerly Wilson St. Gallery)
Habitat 2, John Miller Galleries, Newcastle
Absence/substance, New England Regional Art Museum, NSW
Absence/substance, Moree Plains Regional Art Gallery, Moree, NSW
Weightless, Span Galleries, Melbourne
Marked, John Miller Galleries, Newcastle
Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, NSW
Echoes, Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney
Child’s play, Span Galleries, Melbourne
Child’s play - Paul Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide
Games, Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney
Traces, Paul Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide
Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney
Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne
Paul Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
City of Light, Tamworth Regional art Gallery, NSW
Transforming, Meijiang International Art Gallery, Tianjin China
Surface, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney
Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award
From Paper, Beijing Art Space, Beijing
Lure of the Landscape, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney (formerly Wilson St. Gallery)
Finalist Countryscape Art Prize (highly commended)
Surrealism in the 70’s, touring exhibition across the USA
Finalist Countryscape Art Prize (highly commended)
Finalist Norvil Landscape Art Prize ( won the prize)
Finalist Country Energy Landscape Prize
Finalist Fleurieu Biennale SA
Muswellbrook Open Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery (won the prize)
Finalist Country Energy Landscape Prize
My Place, My Time, Myself, New England Regional Museum, Armidale
Span Galleries, Melbourne
Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
Finalist Country Energy Art Prize
New England Regional Art Museum
Kedumba Drawing Award, Blue Mountains, Sydney
We are Australians, Victoria Arts Centre (touring exhibition)
Finalist 28th Alice Prize, Alice Springs, NT
Finalist Dobell drawing prize, The Art Gallery of NSW
Faces of Hope, The Art Gallery of NSW
Urban Details, commissioned by the 1997 Sydney Festival
The Wandering Jew, The Australian Jewish Museum Melbourne
Recognising the Republic, Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney
Michael Nagy Gallery, Sydney
21st Alice Prize, Alice Springs, NT (Selected for touring show)
BMG Fine Art, Sydney and Adelaide