Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American artist from New Jersey. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work explores narrative and the transmission of memory, often articulated through the interplay of light and performance.
Her photobooks Kavana (Kris Graves Projects, 2020) and We Will Return to You (Saint Lucy Books, 2025) are held in libraries including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty, Harvard University, and Stanford University.
Altman’s photographs have been published in The New York Times, Artforum, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Magazine, LensCulture, and British Journal of Photography. Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, MK&G Hamburg, Houston Center for Photography, Koffler Arts, Athens Photo Festival, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Silver Eye Center for Photography, and the Griffin Museum of Photography.
She was a 2022 Hopper Prize finalist, the 2022 Portraits Hellerau Photography Award First Prize winner, a 2023 Innovate Grant recipient, and a 2023 Aperture Portfolio Prize finalist. She was the inaugural Blanksteen Artist in Residence at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale in 2022–2023. Altman lives in Boston and is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Brandeis University.
Inquiries: hannahaltman1@gmail.com.
Representation: Abakus Projects in Boston, MA.