David Hanes (b. 1987, Toronto) is a Canadian/American painter based between London and Berlin.

His work begins outdoors, with hand-held sketches made on site—imprints of light, colour, atmosphere, and energy. He carries these sometimes for years, filtering them through distance and time before transforming them in the studio into colour-driven oil paintings. In this way, the paintings are not reproductions but recollections of marks, rhythms, moods, and the pause between then and now. Built slowly over weeks of layering, they become dwelling-places that hold a felt tension between creation, stillness, and the vital weight of being alive: grief and hope, loss and longing, suffering and curiosity.

email: david@davidhanes.info

Education

Current: MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London

2013   BFA Sculpture, OCAD University, Toronto

2011   Kansas City Art Institute, MO

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024   Mott Projects, Catskill, NY

2020   Spazio ORR, Brescia, IT

2018   Open Forum, Berlin

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

2026   Haricot Gallery, London

2026   MA Painting Postgraduate Show, Royal College of Art, London

2026   Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2024   Platform from David Zwirner Gallery, Online, NY

2023   Annika Nuttall Gallery, Aarhus, DK

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

2023   Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome, IT

2021   Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, curator: Tobias Kappel

Residencies/Awards

2025   PM/AM Residency, London

2025   The Hopper Prize, Shortlist

2025   Nightworks, Berlin

2024   LungA School, Iceland

2023   "Luxembourg Art Week", Farmlands Residency, Luxembourg

2023   Mobility Scholarship, Embassy of Canada in Rome, Italy

2023   Villa Lena Foundation, Italy

2023   Emerge Project Space, Italy

2019   Penthouse Artist Residency, Brussels.

Press (*publication)

2026   yngspc, Spring

2025   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