Hannah Antalek (b. 1991; Albany, NY) is an artist living in Queens, NY and working in Brooklyn, NY. In 2013, she graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in painting, and continued her education through the New York City Crit Club. Recent group exhibitions include Dead Skin (2025, curated by Curmudgeon at Nine Gallery, New York, NY), Art Rotterdam with Marian Cramer Gallery (2025, Rotterdam, NL), A Sense of Space (2024, Abri Mars; New York, NY), Cereal Isle (2024, Marquee Projects; Bellport, NY), and High-Stakes presented by Lisa Boudet (2023; Paris, FR). Her first international solo exhibition, Warm Lurch, opened in June 2024 at Tini Mini Room (Dordrecht, NL) in collaboration with 5-50 Gallery, and her 2023 solo exhibition Superseed (5-50 Gallery; Queens, NY) was reviewed in Whitehot Magazine as well as Two Coats of Paint. Hannah has been an artist in residence at The Montana Artist Refuge (2025), The Moosey Residency (2024), The Studios of Key West (2018), and The Vermont Studio Center (2016).
Hannah’s work explores an imaginary post-human landscape with roots in science fiction and environmental crisis. She primarily depicts engorged mushroom-like daisies that have undergone a hypothetical evolution in reaction to a changing world. Mysteriously backlit in vivid tones, each color cast is evocative of an unknown light source that might insinuate the presence of a second sun, a foreign moon, the heat or chill of a nearby chemical glow. Through these speculative scenes, her work questions not only the implications of humanity’s impact on nature, but the capacity for adaptation and resilience across all life forms. Read more...
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