Hannah O’Brien has spent time in Dallas, TX, New York, NY, New Orleans, LA and most recently Los Angeles, CA. After earning a BA in Studio Art from Loyola University New Orleans she moved to New York where she had her first studio at Reis Studios in Long Island City. As the studio began to feel like a cage an urgency to be in public led her to join the stand-up comedy circuit. O’Brien did alternative stand-up comedy from 2017-2021. During the Covid Pandemic O’Brien’s understanding of performance broadened and merged with performance art. In 2021 O’Brien moved to Los Angeles and began working as a production assistant downtown at a fabrication warehouse, and applied to graduate school at ArtCenter College of Design. In 2024 she earned an MFA with a body of work that utilizes the technique of defamiliarization in the medium of sculpture, performance and video editing.


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