Hannah Smith Allen works across photography, text, printmaking, book arts, and moving image. For the past two decades, her artwork has primarily examined how history, politics, and aesthetics shape our understanding of the landscape.
Her practice has been recognized through numerous fellowships and awards, including the Aaron Siskind Foundation’s Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, a Photography Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, an A.I.M. Fellowship at the Bronx Museum of Art, and BAXTER ST at CCNY’s Mid-career Artist initiative. She has participated in residencies at the Lower East Side Printshop, Visual Studies Workshop, and the Vermont Studio Center, and her photographs, prints, books, and installations have been exhibited throughout the United States at venues including the Phoenix Art Museum, Wave Hill Cultural Center, BAXTER ST, AIR Gallery, and SF Camerawork.
Allen’s artist book Borderlands (2021), published by Visual Studies Workshop Press in Rochester, New York, is held in collections nationwide, most notably the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, and UCLA Library Special Collections. Alongside her studio practice, she writes on contemporary photography, with essays appearing in American Photo and Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism.
Allen is an Associate Professor of Photography and Digital Media at Adelphi University and holds degrees from the School of Visual Arts and the Rhode Island School of Design. She currently serves as Resident Artist for the Erie Canal, a collaboration between the Erie Canal Museum and the New York State Power Authority. As part of this residency, she is developing a new exhibition on the canal, scheduled to open in spring 2027 at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York.
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Hannah Smith Allen • Artist • Image Maker • Photographer
hannahsmithallen@me.com
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