About
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fromsamirahanna@gmail.com
Education
B.F.A. in Studio (Fiber and Material Studies) The Art Institute Of Chicago 2025
Early College Program, Champlain College 2020–2021
Exhibitions
Purple Window Gallery (MANA Contemporary), Group Show, In A Child's Place, Curated by Samiah Fulcher, Chicago IL | 2025
Handlers, Group, Common Ground Gallery, Seattle, Washington | 2025
Everything studios, Put it on a shirt, Solo show, Chicago, IL | 2025
GURE Gallery, FOURTH, Group show, Chicago, IL | 2025
Hardboiled Gallery Spring Group Show, Chicago, IL | 2025
Feelings Cut in Half, Two-Person Show – Hardboiled Gallery, Chicago, IL | 2024
SAIC Fall Undergraduate Group Exhibition, Chicago, IL | 2024
STRUT: SEABA Fashion Show, Generator Makerspace, Burlington, VT | 2019
Publications
Samira Henninge on Girlhood, Visibility, and the Violence of Being Remembered” on OVERSTANDARD 2026
Artist Spotlight Interview, LVL3, 2025
Like A Field Magazine — “How to Keep It Together (Or Not)” | Spring issue 2025
Swallow Press Fabric Books, Vol. 3 | 2023
Awards:
ZORA Creator Grant | 2025
SAIC Creative Honors Scholarship | 2021
Vermont Agency of Education Presidential Scholar for the Arts | 2020
Experience:
Wardrobe Head, Culligan Water / Potluck Production — Chicago, IL | 2026
Teaching Artist, Collage Workshops, Chicago Public Libraries — Chicago, IL | 2026
Print and Millinery Assistant – Isabel Weiss; Fashion Collection, Chicago, IL |2025
Wardrobe Head — Short Film: Working Class
Directed by Victoria Ratermanis; Written/Produced by Lauren Fern — Chicago, IL | 2025
Production Intern, David2Leather — Florence, Italy | Summer 2024
Sales & Engraving Associate, AO Glass Shop — Burlington, VT | 2019–2023
Sales & Repair Assistant, The Lamp Shop — Burlington, VT | 2019–2020
The best things I have in life are my memories, and like a compulsive collector, I try to preserve, distort, and reimagine them. Central to my collection process is my late mother's photographs, notes, diaries, and publications, whose layers of identity, perception, and loss guide me. By excavating her archive to revive the imprints of her existence, my material work reshapes it into a living channel that may once again be experienced. Layering and distorting images and symbols, I create an environment where memory is unstable, making it deeply human. I allow the viewer to confront the complex interplay between presence and absence, making the intangible real and giving form to the unseen. It's like wearing lipstick that’s just a little too bold or dancing like no one’s watching, messy, raw, and a little bit daring, but completely your own.
-fromsamira