b. 1987 United States
PRINT PUBLICATIONS
2020
‘Which exhaustion do you prefer?’, Issue 43, Salt Hill Journal
2018
‘Common Senses’, Body Issue, Echo Magazine, Columbia College Chicago
‘There is a hole inside of me’ and ‘Another painting of a woman’s back’, Lauren Sudbrink: Escape Orchestra, notes, commentary, etc., Roman Susan
‘A poem about desire’, United States Escape Party: Egresswasm Vol 3, Chase Public
2017
‘The part where I feel all the cold’ and ‘Baby Bottles’, The New Feminists, PoetsArtists Magazine
‘Are You an Addict?’ and ‘Things so irritating’, United States Escape Party: Egresswasm Vol 2, Chase Public
2016
‘Dream details’, ‘Your face I see in people’ and ‘Soles’, hot & bothered, SELFISH Magazine
‘Tired’ and ‘Islands’, Angulos: I S L A N D (s), RAIZVANGUARDA Associação Cultural
2015
‘Manual’, SWEAT, Hand Job Zine
2014
‘The most putrid thing is bleeding from you’, Ziplock the Air, JERKPOET Poetry Digest
‘A Love Letter to Sibel Kekilli’s Pre-Op Nose’, RICH, Be About It Zine
‘Hanna M. Owens & Jonathan Loïc Rogers’, Accidentally on Purpose Volume 3, Accidental Zine
2011
‘Ngor’, Open Doors (cover), Institute for International Education
DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS
2021
‘I Stopped Free Bleeding to Save My Vulva Skin’, Salty
2020
‘catch waves not feelings’, Issue no. 16, stadtsprachen magazin
‘Not the preferred exhaustion’, Week 12, DIALOGIST Journal
‘Hermit Crab’, Isolation, The Real Life Magazine
2019
‘It happened exactly how I had always imagined it would happen’, The End, The Wild Word
‘Red Shift’ (vocals), First Person Simulation, Dovecote
‘Esme Pignone’, First Person Simulation, Dovecote
2018
‘A poem about desire’ and ‘Real Housewives’, Two Poems, Hobart
2014
‘A Love Letter to George W. Bush’s Daughter’, If a tree falls, does it make a sound?, The Present Tense
2013
Staining Everywhere Around Me and Stuck Everywhere In Everything with Geoff Levy, The Jogging
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2020
ESP USA, Flatland, Chicago
Touch, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
2019
Tarnynon Onumonu: In the Receiving Room, Flood’s Hall, Chicago
2018
United States Escape Party: Egresswasm 3, Chase Public, Cincinnati Ohio
The Madeleine Stowe Show, Pique, Covington Kentucky
Chicago Zine Fest, Plumbers Union Hall, Chicago
between shadow and soul, Lease Agreement & 12th Street Bar, Huntsville Texas
This Is Not Art, The Overlook, Chicago
2017
The United States Escape Party: Egresswasm 2, Chase Public, Cincinnati
RITUAL: 2nd Floor Rear DIY Festival, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago
Expectations: A Feminist Video Screening and Benefit for Chicago Women’s Health Center, Lillstreet Loft, Chicago
AlL wOrK aNd No PlAy, The Overlook, Chicago
Open 2.0, Slate Arts, Chicago
Strangers Lovers Gods, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago
2016
entzaubert Queer Film Festival: Open Archive, wagenplatz kanal, Berlin Germany
Zine Fest Pt!, Centro Comercial de Cedofeita, Porto Portugal
11th WNDX Festival of Moving Image, WNDX Inc., Winnipeg Canada
IN/HABIT: Sex Habits, Archer Ballroom, Chicago
Comfort Film: Her Environment #2 Homonyms, Comfort Station, Chicago
Video! Video! Video Festival, Comfort Station, Chicago
Comfort Film: Millennial Movie Night, Comfort Station, Chicago
2015
25 Jahre Künstlerhaus am Acker, Institut Für Alles Mögliche, Berlin
ESPACIO ENTER CANARIAS: International Festival of Creativity, Innovation & Digital Culture, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz, Tenerife Spain
Art of the Networked Practice: An International Online Symposium, School of Art, Design & Media Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Feminism (n.): Plural, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
Neon Dreams: Threewalls Benefit Auction, Threewalls, Chicago
Wonka Ball Shorts Program, About Face Theatre, Chicago
2014
entzaubert Queer Film Festival: Hope in the Glitch, schwarzerkanal, Berlin
Transmediale Vorspiel: USB-SHUFFLE-SHOW (TWO), Institut Für Alles Mögliche, Berlin
52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival (installation), Michigan Theatre, Ann Arbor Michigan
Fallow Time Movement Research Festival: Prepared Field, ISSUE Project Room, New York
Southside Manifesto, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago
11:11 A Screening, Kitchen Space, Chicago
POET VIDEO, 2319 W 19th St, Chicago
Extinct Entities Performance Art Festival: REVERSE SHOT, Links Hall, Chicago
Video! Video!, Templehead Gallery, Chicago
Yell Me About Myself: MFA Thesis Exhibition 02, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
FIRE LIGHT: Works for the Screen from Graduating UIC MFAs, Nightingale Cinema, Chicago
2013
0P3NR3P0.net glitch share fest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Identity Void: Ladiez Live Art and Video Fest, Chicago
2012
Drawing School, Q Gallery, Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore
2011
Launch Pad, Skylofts Gallery, Baltimore
Emerging Visions, YorkArts, York Pennsylvania
April Show, Gallery 788, Baltimore
2010
Monumental Micros, Center For The Arts Gallery, Towson University, Towson Maryland
4th of July Show, Antreasian Gallery, Baltimore
Under Our Umbrella, Adornment Gallery, Baltimore
Impulse Purchase, Storage Space Gallery, Towson University
2006-2009
Paintings from Dakar and other cities, Storage Space Gallery, Towson University
Natasha Jones and Hanna M. Owens, Liam’s Pint-sized Pub, Baltimore
Descent with Modification: Natasha Jones and Hanna M. Owens, Storage Space Gallery, Towson University
October 31, Load of Fun, Baltimore
SELECTED LIVE PERFORMANCES
2020
Smut Slam: Huren Hören, Hydra eV, Berlin et al.
Who’s allowed to make money: Workers in Solidarity, Black Sex Workers Collective and Hydra eV, Berlin et al.
2018
Baby Wine, The Annoyance Theatre, Chicago
grief.com, House Party, Chicago
2017
LYP SINC show 7 with KC Horne, defibrillator gallery, Chicago
TIPS 4 Tingles: a live ASMR experience, Comfort Station, Chicago
RITUAL: 2nd Floor Rear DIY Festival, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago
RITES, Open House Contemporary, Chicago
2016
MCA Prime Time: ⌘R, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2015
Dominion of Chuckles Comedy Series, Sharky’s Den, Chicago
Feminism (n.): Plural, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
2014
Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival: Espand The Pairing, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago
Espand The Pairing, Seed Space, Nashville Tennessee
Exhibit #1: Espand The Pairing, FLATspace, Chicago Urban Arts Society, Chicago
Antibody Corporation The First Five Years: Espand The Pairing, Links Hall, Chicago
Mergers & Acquisitions, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago
LYP SINC show 4, defibrillator gallery, Chicago
Walk all over me, Pinky Swear, Chicago
College Art Association Annual Conference: Room With A View, Hilton Hotel, Chicago
2013
organized by elspeth walker, sophiajacob, Baltimore Maryland
Garbage World 7, Little Berlin, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Garbage World 6, Big Forever, Chicago
The prettiest girls are the happiest girls, Dustbowl, Chicago
SELECTED ON-SCREEN PERFORMANCES
2015
Marietta Brimble, Jennifer Reeder
2013
Paris My Hell, Chérif Tall
READINGS
2018
Baby Wine, The Annoyance Theatre, Chicago
This Is Not Art, The Overlook Place, Chicago
2017
Jillian Hansen-Lewis: Just Desserts, Hume Gallery, Chicago
Blanket Statements, The Overlook Place, Chicago
Book Club, Wicker Park Lutheran, Chicago
CURATIONS
2018
Readings by non-artists, The Overlook Place, Chicago
2017
TIPS 4 Tingles: a live ASMR experience, Comfort Station, Chicago
2016
A tragic duality, far as the curse is found, RAIZVANGUARDA Associação Cultural, Góis Portugal
2015
Chicagq: A selection of recent radical voices from Chicago, MIX NYC 28th Queer Experimental Film Festival, MIX Factory, New York
Sweety’s & Chicagq present Specialties of the House, Urbano Project, Boston
You/we do plural: an evening of performance, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
Specialties of the House: an exchange of recent radical voices from Bqstqn and Chicagq, Comfort Station, Chicago
2014
Chicagq à Mqntréal, Festival Perverscité, RATS 9, Montreal
La Centrale welcomes Videq Chicagq, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal
2011
External Organs with Baltimore Experimental Dance Collective, Skylofts Gallery, Baltimore
2008
Descent with Modification with Darius Jones Jazz Ensemble, Storage Space Gallery, Towson University
PANELS | WORKSHOPS
2018
‘Mr, Ms, Mx From He to Ze: Explore Your Identity With Bea Cordelia, Noir Lin, and Hanna M. Owens’, ChiTeen Lit Fest, Columbia College, Chicago
2017
Contemporary Practices: Personal Narratives and Verbal History (visiting artist talk), School of the Art Institute, Chicago
2016
Zine workshop, Escola-Estúdio Bordeiro, Góis Portugal
2015
Teen Workshop Feminist Crafting with Tracers Book Club (zine workshop), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
MCA Studios Feminist Parking Lot (zine workshop), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Gallery talk with Feminism (n.): Plural artists, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago
2014
‘Personal Mythologies’, Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival, Society For The Arts, Chicago
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2016
Escola-Estúdio RAIZVANGUARDA Artist Residency Programme, Góis Portugal
EDUCATION
2020
Fiction Writing Course with Jessica Miller, The Reader Berlin, Germany
2016
TEFL Certification to Teach English as a Foreign Language, International TEFL Academy, Chicago
2014
Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago
2013
Graduate Assistantship with Jennifer Reeder in Moving Image, University of Illinois at Chicago
2011
Bachelors of Arts in Fine Arts and Foreign Language, Towson University
2009
Wells College Study Program, West African Research Center, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar Senegal
HONORS
2021
Novella shortlisted for DHA New Writers’ Open Week, David Higham Books, London
2012-2014
Board of Trustees Tuition Waiver, MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago
2011
Graduation summa cum laude / with Highest Honors, Bachelors of Arts, Towson University
2010-2011
National S.M.A.R.T. Grant in Foreign Language, U.S. Department of Education
Honorable Mention in Painting, Emerging Visions, YorkArts Gallery, York Pennsylvania
William Denner Painting Award, Towson University Department of Art + Design
2008-2009
Benjamin A. Gilman Scholar, Dakar Senegal, U.S. Department of State
International Study Abroad Scholarship, Dakar Senegal, Towson University
Special Projects Grant, Towson University Department of Art + Design
