David Hanes (b. 1987, Canada/USA) is an artist based between London and Berlin. His work begins outdoors, with small observational sketches that hold the immediacy of place and feeling. With the passage of time, these mementos are filtered through memory, distance, and recollection and are transformed in the studio into oil paintings or watercolours. Recalling the spirit of early modern painters, his practice offers a quiet resistance to disconnection, holding to the belief that to witness the world with feeling is itself a radical act.

email: david@davidhanes.info

Education

2013   BFA Sculpture, OCAD University, Toronto

2011   Kansas City Art Institute, MO

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024   Mott Projects, Catskill, NY

2023   Emerge Project Space, Pescara, IT, curator: Benedetta Monti

2022   Mott Projects, Catskill, NY

2020   Spazio ORR, Brescia, IT

2018   Open Forum, Berlin

2014   Birch Contemporary, Toronto

Selected Joint Exhibitions

2025   Zepster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Andrew Hildenbrand)

2025   McBride Contemporain, Montreal, CA (Alice Zeherini Le Reste)

2022   White Noise Gallery, Rome, IT (Richie Culver)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024   Platform from David Zwirner Gallery, Online, NY

2024   Zepster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curator: Reed Chopjnacki

2023   Il Bisonte Gallery, Florence, IT, curator: Silvia Belloti

2023   Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome, IT

2021   Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, curator: Tobias Kappel

2013   Power Plant, Toronto, curator: Micah Lexier

Residencies & Festivals

2025   PM/AM Residency, London

2025   Dialogue, Luxembourg

2025   Nightworks, Berlin

2024   Pas Mal Residency, Montreal

2024   LungA School, Iceland

2024   SUL Foundation, Canada

2023   "Luxembourg Art Week", Farmlands Residency, Luxembourg

2023   Villa Lena Foundation, Italy

2023   LungA School, Beta Land Program, Iceland

2022   Farmlands Residency, Luxembourg

Press (*publication)

2025   The Hopper Prize (shortlist), Summer / Luxemburger Wort, Spring* / Kuba Paris, Winter / CBC Arts, Winter

2024   Munchies Art Club, Fall / Whitehot Magazine, Summer / FAD Magazine, Summer / Friend of The Artist, Winter*

2023   DAZED, Spring / O FLUXO, Spring / Juliet Art Magazine, Spring* / CKTH, Spring / Tzvetnik, Spring / Daily Lazy, Spring

2022   INSIDEART, Spring / Art Plugged, Spring

2020   ARTODAY, Fall / Art Viewer, Spring / IGNANT, Spring