ABOUT

Hannah Law (b. 1997) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York whose practice is grounded in a phenomenological approach to making. Sustained looking and embodied engagement with materials serve as primary modes of inquiry. Working across clay, paper, and wood, she investigates the relationship between hand and machine through systems of repetition, precision, and improvisation. Drawing from processes such as erosion and accumulation, Law uses these forces as both metaphor and method. She places them in dialogue with industrial technologies, including CNC machinery, pairing programmed structures and framing devices with delicate blind embossings and intuitive gestures. Her work allows pressure, resistance, and deviation to shape form over time.

Originally from Ithaca, New York, Law grew up among deciduous forests and layered shale gorges, developing an early sensitivity to ecological systems and material change. Living near the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and within a household shaped by environmental preservation further informed her attention to observation, cultivation, and cycles of decay and regeneration. She earned her B.A. from Hampshire College, her art education degree from Mount Holyoke College, and her MFA in Sculpture and Printmaking from Pratt Institute.