Hanna Hur: Eyes Closed

Now we descend into the sightless zone.1 Even still, vision persists. A spectre possessing a dyad of wet spheres. Vision: the charioteer with a double lead twisted into a single cord, taming two beasts to a unison. Sight, our unrelenting Visitor.

- Hanna Hur

1. Dante Alighieri, The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, trans. Robert Pinsky (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996), canto IV, line 9.

Hanna Hur (b. 1985, Toronto, Canada) lives and works in New York. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include Ulrik (2025, New York), Sweetwater (2025, Berlin), Doosan Art Center (2024, Seoul), Dracula's Revenge (2024, New York), Kristina Kite (2023, 2021, Los Angeles), and Bel Ami (2019, Los Angeles). She has participated in group exhibitions at various venues, including Hammer Museum (2025, 2022, Los Angeles), CAPC Bordeaux (2024, Bordeaux), Aspen Art Museum (2022, Aspen), and Institute of Contemporary Art (2021, Los Angeles). Hur's work is held in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.