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. Her work investigates the tension between hand and machine, examining how systems of control, repetition, and precision intersect with improvisation and material unpredictability. Drawing on natural processes such as erosion and accumulation, Law treats these forces as both metaphor and method. She places them in dialogue with industrial and design technologies, including CNC machinery, using programmed structure as a counterpoint to intuitive gestures. Her practice considers how authorship is distributed between artist, tool, and material, allowing resistance, deviation, and adaptation to shape form.

Originally from Ithaca, New York, Law grew up immersed in deciduous forests and gorges of layered shale, developing an early embodied awareness of ecological systems. Living near the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and within a household attuned to preservation and environmental ethics, she became attentive to nonhuman rhythms and observation. Her mother’s establishment of a backyard permaculture initiative further grounded her understanding of cycles of cultivation, decay, and regeneration as lived experience. These influences continue to inform her interest in both attunement to and friction with natural systems. Law earned her B.A. from Hampshire College and later received her art education degree from Mount Holyoke College.