Adad Hannah was born in New York in 1971, spent his childhood in Israel and England, and moved to Vancouver in the early 1980’s. He has lived and worked in Montreal since 2001.
He has exhibited at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (currently on view), the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (2008, 2009), Zendai MoMA, Shanghai (2009), Galerie Thomas Shulte (Berlin, 2008, curated by Christopher Eamon), Ke Center for Contemporary Art (Shanghai 2008), the Vancouver Art Gallery (2007), the National Gallery of Canada (2006), Ikon Gallery (Birmingham, 2006), the 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (2006), Casa Encendida (Madrid 2006) and Viper Basel (2004). In 2004 he won the Toronto Images Festival Installation/New Media Award, and the Bogdanka Poznanovic Award at Videomedeja 8. His work has been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, the B.C Arts Council, the Vancouver Foundation/Contemporary Art Gallery, the Quebec Delegations and Canadian Embassies in Madrid, Seoul, and New York. He has produced works at museums including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Rodin Gallery (Seoul), and the Prado Museum (Madrid).
Hannah has recently finished a body of videos and photographs produced in collaboration with the Prado Museum in Madrid, a site-specific commission for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, as well as a work produced with five sets of identical twins for the Vancouver Art Gallery.
He has been longlisted twice for the Sobey Art Award.
Selected public collections:
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada.
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada.
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Quebec City.
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada.
Ke Center for Centemporary Art, Shanghai, China.
SSamzie Collection, Seoul, South Korea.
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
Surrey Art Gallery, Canada.
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Adad Hannah is represented by Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain in Montreal.