Artist Statement
My practice investigates selective memory and the ways in which a narrator reimagines past narratives. Drawing inspiration from storytellers and unreliable narrators, I fragment and recontextualize patterns, objects, and photographs to generate new narratives.
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Found materials from family archives, vintage shops, and heirlooms operate as both subject and medium, embodying the complexity of memory itself. When such objects are absent, I reconstruct them through metal, ceramic, fiber, paper, or cyanotype, emphasizing the act of making as a form of remembrance and reinterpretation. Through this process, my work questions how memory is preserved and transmitted to a generation of new viewers.
Biography
Hannah Niño Harris (b. 1991) is a San Antonio–based mixed-media artist whose work examines selective memory and the reconstruction of personal narratives. Drawing from family archives, vintage objects, and heirlooms, she transforms materials such as metal, ceramic, fiber, paper, and cyanotype into vessels of memory and reinterpretation. Nino Harris holds two BFAs in Ceramics and Painting and Drawing from the University of North Texas at Denton, and an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including Recantos y Recuerdos at the Cora Stafford Gallery, Assemblages Assemble at SMART SA, and Textured: Contemporary Craft at The Golden Rose Gallery. In addition to her studio practice, she serves as a Gallery Assistant at The Golden Rose Gallery, supporting exhibition organization and curation.