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Van Hanos

Van Hanos’s approach to painting is best undefined, forsaking particular modes or methods. Ranging from landscape to portraiture, beyond categorization as either figuration or abstraction, his work navigates perceptual shifts and thematic rupture. Hanos explores the tremendous range of possibilities within the human mind and experience, and his paintings can be created as meticulous oil renderings of images taken from photographs, with technical precision and photographic tendencies, or as sublime, abstracted amalgamations of past observations and ruminations, replete with internal references to other paintings or past subjects, and layered with meaning. Hanos’s work always beckons the viewer to look closer — as what one first experiences is undoubtedly bound to shift upon continued investigation.

Van Hanos (born 1979) has a BA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA (2001), and an MFA from the School of the Arts at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA (2010). Recent solo exhibitions include Twin at Lisson Gallery, London, UK (2022); Conditional Bloom at Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2021); Interiors at Château Shatto, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2020); Mommy’s Boy at Cleopatra’s, New York, NY, USA (2017); Late American Paintings at Château Shatto, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2017); Awake At The Funeral at Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany (2017); Van Hanos at Parapet Real Humans, St. Louis, MO, USA (2017); Intercalaris at Rowhouse Project, Baltimore, MD, USA (2016); and Van Hanos at West Street Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2011). Selected group exhibitions include A Cloth Over a Birdcage at Château Shatto, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2019);  The Land That I Live In at Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2019); Pine Barrens at Tanya Bonakdar, New York, NY, USA (2018); An Uncanny Likeness at Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2017); The Lazy Sunbathers at Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany (2015); The Ninth Season of The Artist’s Institute with Carolee Schneemann at The Artist’s Institute, New York, NY, USA (2015); and Call and Response at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY, USA (2015). Paintings by Hanos were featured in the group exhibition, The Rest, at Lisson Gallery New York from January – February 2019, and his work was the subject of a solo presentation at Lisson Gallery in East Hampton in August 2020. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.

Beyeren's Banquet

Van Hanos
Beyeren's Banquet

2023
Oil on linen 190.5 x 152.5 x 4 cm 75 x 60 x 1 5/8 in

Meow Meow

Van Hanos
Meow Meow

2023
Oil on linen 64 x 51 x 2 cm 25 1/4 x 20 1/8 x 0 3/4 in

Power on Land

Van Hanos
Power on Land

2023
Oil on linen 64 x 51 x 2 cm 25 1/4 x 20 1/8 x 0 3/4 in

The Ambulance

Van Hanos
The Ambulance

2023
Oil on linen 190.5 x 152.5 x 4 cm 75 x 60 x 1 5/8 in
 

David

Van Hanos
David

Oil on linen 152.5 x 190.5 x 4 cm 60 x 75 x 1 5/8 in

Portrait of Sam Salazar

Van Hanos
Portrait of Sam Salazar

2022
Oil on linen 190.5 x 152.5 x 4 cm 75 x 60 x 1 5/8 in

Harder Party

Van Hanos
Harder Party

2020
Oil on linen, 152.4 x 121.9 cm, 60 x 48 in

∞

Van Hanos

2020
Oil on linen, 152.4 x 190.5 cm, 60 x 75 in

Figure Eight

Van Hanos
Figure Eight

2018
Oil on linen, 152.4 x 246.4 cm, 60 x 97 in

Exhibitions

  1. Van Hanos: Twin - past exhibition

    Van Hanos: Twin

    16 November 2022 – 28 January 2023

  2. Van Hanos: Conditional Bloom - past exhibition

    Van Hanos: Conditional Bloom

    30 June – 13 August 2021

  3. Van Hanos - past exhibition

    Van Hanos

    20 August – 24 August 2020

  4. The Rest - past exhibition

    The Rest

    12 January – 16 February 2019

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