Chloe Hanken

Chloe Hanken is a printmaker and illustrator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, whose work explores the intersection of history, place, and family narrative. Her work is informed by her background in natural history and ecology, which is brought to bear upon issues of loss, change and unbelonging at the tail end of the American empire. Hanken employs illustration and digital collage to create dynamic compositions that play with narrative form. In her lithographs, these elements represent the nonlinear nature of storytelling and memory. Research is central to her practice; often experimenting with various drawing materials and print processes to build her images; engagement with archival studies to gather artifacts, photos and text, and writing to both inform and analyze the works. Hanken earned her BA in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic and her MFA in Studio Arts from the University of New Mexico.

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