HANNAH OATMAN
hannahoatman@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2020 MFA in Jewelry + Metalsmithing with a certificate in Collegiate Teaching in Art + Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2017 BFA in Metal (summa cum laude), State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2013-15 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021 Summer Instructor, Snowfarm School Of Craft, Williamsburg, MA
2021 Instructor, Metalwerx Jewelry School and Studio: Get It Together: Simple Cold Connection for Enamel, Waltham, MA
2020 Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Jewelry + Metalsmithing: Copper, Color, Kiln, Collection: Enameled Jewelry as Series, Providence, RI (Wintersession 2020)
2018-19 Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Jewelry + Metalsmithing: Jewelry Introduction, Providence, RI
Fall 2018
Wintersession 2019
Spring 2019
Fall 2019
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020 Teaching Assistant to Johan Van Aswegan, Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Jewelry + Metalsmithing: Sophomore Jewelry 2, Providence, RI, Spring 2020
2019 Studio Technician’s Assistant, Rhode Island School of Design, Summer 2019
2019 Teaching Assistant to Johan Van Aswegan, Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Jewelry + Metalsmithing: Jewelry Introduction, Providence, RI, Summer 2019
2017 Teaching Assistant to Amelia Toelke, State University of New York at New Paltz, Department of Fine Arts Metal Program: Enameling, New Paltz, NY, Spring 2017
2016-17 Studio Assistant to Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Stone Ridge, NY
RESIDENCIES
2018 Baltimore Jewelry Center Artist Residency, Baltimore, MD
2018 Smitten Forum, Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM
2017-18 Nine Month Residency, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 (upcoming) Tributaries: Hannah Oatman, Metal Museum, Memphis, TN
2021 The Line, Klimt02 Hannah Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Collect Me! Pop-Up Exhibition, New York City Jewelry Week Headquarters, New York, NY
2018 Residency Pop-Up Exhibition, Baltimore Jewelry Center Gallery, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 (upcoming) Untitled Invitational Group Show, Galerie Noël Guyomarc’h, Montreal, Quebec
2020 RISD Graduate Exhibition 2020, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2020-21 Marzee Annual International Graduate Show, Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2020 RISD Graduate Exhibition 2020, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2020 OBJECTS: REDUX: 50 Years of Craft Evolution, Form & Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2019-20 OBJECTS: REDUX: How 50 Years Made Craft Contemporary, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
2019 Wear|Contemporary Jewelry, Penland Gallery, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC
2019 In Residence, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
2019 Talente 2019, International Trade Fair, Munich, Germany [catalogue]
2018 Souvenir, Jewelry + Metalsmithing Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2018 Under Fire 2, Krikorian Gallery, Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA (curated by Bella Neyman, Aurelie Guillaume, and Jan Harrell) [catalogue]
2018 VisionMakers 2018, 108|Contemporary, Tulsa, OK (curated by Emily Zilber) [catalogue]
2018 Chromatic Drift, TAIMU Center for the Fine and Performing Arts Gallery, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX (curated by Sarah Darro)
2018 Materials Hard and Soft, Meadows Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX (Curated by Perry Price [catalogue])
2018 Jewelry Edition V4, Traveling Exhibition, Select Locations: ECU Symposium-East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; Mora Jewelry, Asheville, NC; Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, Yuma Symposium, Yuma, AZ
2017-18 From Minimal to Bling: Contemporary Studio Jewelry, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA (Curated by Luiza deCamargo)
2017 Marzee International Graduate Show, Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands [catalogue]
2017-18 Alchemy International Juried Student Enamel Exhibition, The Enamelist Society, Arrowmont Sandra Blaine Gallery, Gatlinburg TN (Summer 2017), Ohio Craft Museum, Colombus OH (Fall 2017), National Ornamental Metals Museum, Memphis TN (Winter 2018) [catalogue]
2017 Adorned Spaces Pop-Up Exhibition, The Sheraton Hotel, SNAG NEXUS, New Orleans, LA
2017 SNAG 2017 Student Exhibition, SNAG NEXUS, New Orleans, LA
2017 COLORSCAPE, BFA Thesis Exhibition, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
2017 Wearable Expressions, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA [catalogue]
2017 Materials Hard and Soft, Meadows Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX (Curated by JoAnn Edwards, Executive Director, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco [catalogue])
2016 SUNY Student Art Series Exhibition, University at Albany, Albany, NY
2016 Practice/Play Pop-Up Exhibition, State University of New York at New Paltz Fine Arts Building, New Paltz, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Enamel Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, California
GRANTS/AWARDS
2020 Klimt02 JPLUS Award
2020 Klimt02 Selected Graduate
2019 Graduate Commons Grant, Providence, RI
2018 RISD Graduate Fellowship
2017 Jewelry Edition Award
2017 Best in Show, SUNY Student Art Series, Albany, NY
2016 Dr. Edwin A. Ulrich Fine Arts Memorial Scholarship, New Paltz, NY
2013 Pratt Institute Foundation Merit Scholarship Competition Award, Brooklyn, NY
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
2020 Virtual Artist Talk, University of Central Oklahoma (April 16th)
2019 Color/Collage, Early Career Artist Presentation, SNAG Conference 2019 The Loop: Coming Full Circle, Chicago, IL (May 24th)
2019 Collect Me! Artist Talk, Chace Center, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (May 2nd)
2018 Artist Talk, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD (June 28th)
2018 Workshop: From Junk to Jewelry, 31st Annual Houston Art Car Parade, Houston, TX (April 14th)
2018 Artist Talk for the Houston Metal Arts Guild, Museum of Fine Arts Houston: Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX (April 7th)
2018 Jewelry Workshop: From Junk to Jewelry, HISD Fine Arts Summit, Westbury High School, Houston, TX (April 7th)
2018 Artist Talk, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX (April 12th)
2018 Enameling demonstration, Creative Women’s Entrepreneurial Workshop, ARKA Living, Houston, TX (January 28th)
2017 Artist Talk, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston,TX (Nov. 18th)
PUBLICATIONS/PRESS
2021 Interview with Hannah Oatman, Powerclash Art
2021 Interview with Hannah Oatman, Winner of the Klimt02 JPlus Emerging Talent Award, Klimt02
2020 Commence Jewelry 2020 Yearbook
2020 Klimt02 Selected Graduate
2019 Current Obsession for NYCJW Paper
2019 Refigural Book Issue 2: Department Store
2018 SNAG Jewelry + Metals Survey
2017 Klimt02 Selected Graduate
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2018 Co-curation and installation of Souvenir, RISD’s Grauduate Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2016 Commemorative Coin Design for the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Summit, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY(In Collaboration with Michael Gayk, Assistant Professor, SUNY New Paltz)