Michael Hanna
Born in Craigavon, Northern Ireland. Lives and works in Belfast

Education

2012 __MFA Master of Fine Art, University of Ulster, Belfast
2009 __BA (Hons) Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art

Exhibitions (selected)

2012 __Calculated Error - Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2012 __The New Adventures of Wonder Woman [curator Ben Crothers] - PS2, Belfast
2012 __Interplanetary Revolution [curated by Peter Richards et al] - Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2012 __Line of Scrimmage - University of Ulster, Belfast

2011 __Digital Arts in the Gallery [curator Angela Halliday] - Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2011 __Darklight Festival - The Factory, Dublin
2011 __Every One Thing - Platform Arts, Belfast
2011 __Home Grown - FE McWilliams Gallery, Banbridge
2011 __Contemporary Art and the Moving Image - 11th Belfast Film Festival at Queens Film Theatre, Belfast + Galway Arts Centre
2011 __Other Perspectives - Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown

2010 __Arrivals [curators Feargal O'Malley + Ciara Hickey] - Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
2010 __Futures [curator Ryan Moffett] - Elephant, Glassell Park, Los Angeles
2010 __Station Project Three - Queen Street Police Station, Belfast
2010 __As seen on the radio - Mill Street Studios, Dublin
2010 __Inter alia - PS2, Belfast
2010 __Salon - Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh

2009 __Showreel - Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2009 __9 to 5 - PS2, Belfast
2009 __Bloodfeathers - Morningside, Edinburgh
2009 __Journeys through the mouth - Teviot, Edinburgh

2008 __Standby solutions - Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
2008 __Royal Ulster Academy - Titanic Drawing offices, Belfast
2008 __Colloquiart - The GRV, Edinburgh
2008 __CO-OP - Owl and Lion, Edinburgh
2008 __Carnival of Souls - Wasps Studio, Glasgow

2007 __Momentum - Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown
2007 __Steal all of Stephen King’s Adjectives - ARTTANK, Belfast

Publications

2012___Graham, Laura. Regional Perspectives, Visual Artists News Sheet January-February, pp 20.
2012___Darby, Angela. Home Grown, [online] Available at <http://aestheticamagazine.blogspot.com/2012/01/home-grown-fe-mcwilliam-gallery-studios.html>
2012___Poole, Amanda. Is it a mistake to give £1200 of public money to an artist whose work is full of errors?. The Belfast Telegraph, 3 Sep. p.3

2011___Home Grown exhibition catalogue - ISBN 978-1-908455-02-4
2011___Allotrope - issue 2 - ISSN 2046-2859

2010___Arrivals exhibition catalogue - 978-0-9540086-7-3
2010___Hickey, Ciara. Flourishing Alternatives, Visual Artists News Sheet November-December, pp 33.
2010___Rattle Journal - issue one - 978 05956023728
2010___Baird, Liz. Stars of the future show that they mean business. The Belfast Telegraph, 27 Aug. [online]

2009___Routledge, John. [online] Available at <www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/545551>

Grants Awards Residencies

2011 __(ongoing) Catalyst Arts Archive Commitee
2011 __Support for Individual Artist Programme - Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2011 __Artist in Residence - Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2011 __Alice Berger Hammerschlag Award - University of Ulster

2010 __Support for Individual Artist Programme - Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2010 __Residency Programme - Digital Arts Studios, Belfast

2009 __Andrew Grant Bequest - Edinburgh College of Art

2008 __Original Vision Award - RUA - Adjudicated by Catherine Marshall, Head of Collections at IMMA

2007 __The Alumni Fund Academic Excellence Award - Faculty of Art and Design, University of Ulster