Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American artist from New Jersey and based in Boston, MA. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her photographs portray lineage, folklore, memory, and narrative.
Her work has been exhibited at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Filter Photo, Technical Collections Dresden Museum, Blue Sky Gallery, Brandeis Kniznick Gallery, and the Griffin Museum of Photography, among others. Publications where her work has appeared include the New York Times, Artforum, Vanity Fair, PHMuseum, Carnegie Museum of Art Storyboard, Lensculture, and British Journal of Photography. She was included in the 2021 Silver List, 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’s first photobook Kavana (2020, Kris Graves Projects) is in collections including the libraries at the Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her new monograph We Will Return to You (2025) is published by Saint Lucy Books.
Inquiries: hannahaltman1@gmail.com
Representation: Abakus Projects in Boston, MA.