Christopher Hanrahan
Christopher Hanrahan was born in 1978 in Mudgee, Australia and currently lives and works in New York, USA. To date, his conceptual, predominantly sculptural practice has made use of reduction, absence, slackening, language, and light to loosen ostensibly fixed forms and practices, opening them to new interpretations. Deceptively simple, Hanrahan's elegant sculptures, installations and other modalities evolve from subtle subversions with critical political and philosophical implications.
Hanrahan was the recipient of a 2015 Australia Council Greene Street Residency, a 2013 New Work Grant, and a 2013 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship. He has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally, notably at Raising Cattle,Montreal; Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York; MONA, Hobart; PICA, Perth; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Recent exhibitions include The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness (2017), Jack Shainman Gallery/The School, New York; Formal Complaint (2017), Knockdown Centre, New York; Vitreous Humour (2016), Kansas Gallery, New York; and Sequester (2014), Embassy of Australia Gallery, Washington DC. Hanrahan's work is held in significant public and private collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.