Hanna Hur

Suspension (2025) is a single artwork encompassing five individual canvases—the largest that the artist has painted to date. The work is composed of a finely rendered colored-pencil grid over thin washes of acrylic paint on unprimed canvas. The stark white geometric grid is interrupted by small white circular forms painted with pigment and Flashe, which trigger an optical effect that disorients the perspectival distance between disparate elements. The central panel is raised and appears to hover, suggesting the absence of gravity, in a reference to the configuration of panels in the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas. The overwhelming size and visual effect of these vastly scaled fields of white prompt an intense physical response in the viewer, rooted in visual phenomena and enigmatic imagery. Hanna Hur’s paintings are developed through the prolonged and hyper-intensive experience of time, sight, and touch, and the work produces a similarly embodied phenomenological encounter for the viewer.

Hanna Hur was born in 1985 in Toronto. Recent solo exhibitions include Sweetwater, Berlin (2025); Doosan Art Center, Seoul (2024); Dracula’s Revenge, New York (2024); Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles (2023, 2021); Feuilleton, Los Angeles (2020); and Bel Ami, Los Angeles (2019). Recent group exhibitions include the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2025, 2022); XYZ collective, Tokyo (2025); Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw (2024); Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Capc—Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2024); STARS Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); Gallery 12.26, Dallas (2023); Room 3557, Los Angeles (2023); Aspen Art Museum, CO (2022); Rachofsky House, Dallas (2022); Derosia, New York (2022); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2021). Hur earned a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal (2008), and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2019).