Community/Nation/Tribe: Mohawk / Kanien’kehá:ka
Materials/Processes: Installation; Digital imagery, Video, Digital Fabrication (lasercutting)
Themes: Water; Song; History; Craft
Online Resources: https://www.hannahclaus.net/
Statement/Bio in Artist’s Words:
Hannah Claus is a transdisciplinary artist of Kanien’kehá:ka / English heritage who engages Onkwehon:we epistemology to highlight ways of understanding and being in relation with the world. She obtained her AOCAD from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1997 and her Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University in 2004. A 2019 Eiteljorg Fellow and 2020 recipient of the Prix Giverny, recent group exhibitions include Àbadakone (National Gallery of Canada; Ottawa) Blurring the Line (Eiteljorg Museum; Indianapolis) and the Biennale de l’art contemporain autochtone 2020 : Teionkwariwaienna Tekariwaiennawahkòntie | Honorer nos affinités (Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain; Montréal). Claus’ installations belong to various public collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Eiteljorg Museum, North American Native Museum (Zurich, CH), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Global Affairs and the City of Montreal. Concurrent with her studio practice, Claus has been a regular sessional teacher at Kiuna College (Odanak, Quebec) from 2012 – 2020. She is currently hired as Assistant Professor in Frameworks and Interventions of Indigenous Art Practice in the Studio Art Department at Concordia University. She has been a board member of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (2013 – 2018) and currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Conseil des arts de Montréal since 2018. She is one of the co-founders of daphne, a new Indigenous contemporary arts centre based in Tiohtià:ke [Montreal]. Claus was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick and has lived in New Brunswick and Ontario. Since 2001, she lives and works with her family in Tiohtià:ke. She is a member of the Tyendinaga Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte.
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