Hannah Zizza is a Seattle-based figurative artist working primarily in the mediums of painting and collage. Making use of the concept of appropriation, her work combines found imagery with the stylistic language and tropes of the traditional Western cannon in contemporary surrealist scenes. Rooted in her own perspective as a queer woman, her work often centers on the use of the female nude as a means of addressing cultural perceptions around gender and sexuality in intersection with other topics such as animal rights. In doing so, she recasts traditional roles of subject vs. object in art, reclaiming the use of the body as a means of empowerment and self expression.
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Education
2024 BA, Drawing and Painting with Honors, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Awards and Honors
2025 First Place, Small Works Show, Gallery North, Edmonds, WA
2024 Finalist, Axa Art Prize, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2023 Dani Elenga Art Scholarship recipient, University of Washington School of Art, Seattle, WA
Exhibitions
2025 Pratt in Bloom, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
2025 No/Stalgia, Northwest Collage Collective, Art at the Cave, Vancouver, WA
2025 Knickers in a Bunch, Kathrin Cawein Gallery, Forest Grove, OR
2025 Small Works Show, Gallery North, Edmonds, WA
2024 Forms, Flesh, Frame, Epperson Gallery, Crockett, CA
2024 Artist of the Month, Lifelong Thrift, Seattle, WA
2024 When We Were Young, Gallery B612, Seattle, WA
2024 Axa Art Prize Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2024 Horrorerotica, Undressed PDX, Our Third Place, Vancouver, WA
2024 Open Swim: BA Honors Graduate Exhibition, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024 Pride at Path with Art, Path with Art, Seattle, WA
2023-2024 Contemporary Collage, The Lakeshore, Renton, WA
2023 Publication #0, The Basement, online gallery
2023 Feast, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023 Progress Not Perfection, La Gran Belleza Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023 Being, Destroying, Reviving, A/NT Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023 In Progress, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022 Low Fidelity, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
2021 Life During Quarantine, Parnassus Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
