Contact Info
hanako4art@gmail.com
Instagram: @hannyagrrrl
Curriculum Vitae
HANAKO O’LEARY
Hanako4art@gmail.com
Education
MFA Arts Leadership, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
BFA Sculpture, University of Illinois, Champaign- Urbana, IL
BFA Crafts/Ceramics, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Kamon: Gallery 4Culture, Seattle, WA
2023 Izanami: Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2022 Izanami: Seattle Office of Arts and Culture King Street Station, Seattle, WA
2020 Yomi: Method Gallery, Seattle WA
2020 Izanami: Edmonds Community College Art Gallery, Edmonds, WA
2019 Building Yomi: Assembly, Seattle WA
2019 Izanami Preview: Sand Point Art and Cultural Exchange, Seattle WA
2018 Millennial Fail: Southeast Seattle Senior Center Seattle, WA
2017 Millennial Fail: Coral Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 Draw with Me: Solo Exhibition, Hillman City Collaboratory, Seattle WA
Group Exhibitions
2025
Echoes of the Floating World: Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
2024
Clay: A New Vocabulary: Capital One West Creek Campus, Richmond VA
Quotidian Queer: North Seattle College Gallery, Seattle, WA
2023
May Showers: RailSpur Seattle, Seattle, WA, Seattle, WA
Scanning the Room: Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon, WA
Pottery Northwest Resident Artist Showcase: Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022
Liminal Hymns: Core Gallery, Seattle, WA
Bodies of Land: Art Exchange Gallery, Seattle, WA
Gender in Expanse: Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA
2021
Neddy at Cornish-The Crowd Within: Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA
Echo Echo, NCECA: Pottery North West, Seattle, WA
2020
Surface and Symbol, NCECA Capital One: Richmond, VA
2019
In the Flesh: Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Unwedged: Pottery North West, Seattle, WA
Envisioning a Brighter Future: Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Ethnic Artist Gallery, Seattle, WA
Changing Bodies: Bellevue College Art Gallery, Bellevue, WA
Pottery North West Resident Artist Exhibition: Pottery North West, Seattle, WA
Friends of the Girlfriends of the Guerrilla Girls: COCA Gallery, Seattle, WA
Courageous Arts Leadership in Turbulent Times: Vachon Gallery Seattle WA
Trouble Comes in Threes: Magnuson Park Space Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018
Rent Control: Magnuson Park Space Gallery, Seattle, WA
Apparitions: Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Seward Park Clay Festival: Seward Park Clay Studio, Seattle, WA
2017
Speaking Out: North Seattle Community College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Processing: Artists Face Administration Change, Ethnic Heritage Gallery, Seattle, WA
East Coast Asian American Student Union Annual Conference Exhibition, Raleigh, NC
(Re)connect: Seattle Arts Leadership Conference Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Search for Meaning Festival: Seattle University, Seattle, WA
2016
Out of Sight Seattle: Seattle WA
2015
Art Invasions Capitol Hill: Seattle WA
Art Interruptions: Central District, Seattle WA
In Your Face: Seattle University Vashon Gallery, Seattle WA
2014
Backstreet Bazaar: Hillman City Collaboratory, Seattle WA
Mixed E-Motions: Art Not Terminal Gallery, Seattle WA
Seattle Erotic Arts Festival: Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
Mosaic Matters: Seattle Mosaic Arts, Seattle, WA
2013
Seward Park Charity Auction: Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA
2012
Bud and Pal Present Mitts of Justice: 3231 Creatives, Everett, WA
2011
Bud and Pal Present Send Soon: Indigo Gallery, Champaign, IL
University of Illinois BFA Exhibition: Krannert Art Museum Champaign, IL
Art Chicago: CAPE Collaborative Installation, Chicago, IL
What’s Next: Juried by Liz Nelson, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Loose Ends: Link Gallery, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Material World: Link Gallery, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
2010
System Imaging: Indigo Gallery, Champaign, IL
University of Illinois BFA Exhibition: Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
Lectures and Presentations
2024
Artist Talk: Visiting Artist Lecturer, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA
2023
Artist Talk: Art Lecture Series at Evergreen State College- Hanako O’Leary, Oympia WA
Artist Talk: “Creation: Hanako O’leary and the Myth of Izanami,” Frye art Museum, Seattle WA
2022
Artist Panel: Gender in Expanse, Seattle University, Seattle WA
2021
SAMS Artist Panel: Hanako O’Leary, Humaira Abid, Seattle WA
2020
Resident Artist Lecture: "Izanami" Pottery Northwest, Seattle WA
2019
Artist Talk: “Trouble comes in threes,” Magnuson Park Art Gallery, Seattle WA
2018
Artist talk: “Millennial Fail,” Southeast Seattle Senior Center, Seattle WA
2017
Presenter: “How to tell your story,” Artist of Color Expo and Symposium (ACES), Seattle WA
Guest lecturer: “Millennial Fail,” North Seattle Community College, Seattle WA
Resident Artist Lecture: Seward Park Clay Studio, Seattle WA
2016
Lecturer: “Art Interruptions CD,” Office of Arts and Culture Public Art Boot Camp, Seattle WA
Residencies
2024 Anderson Ranch Residency, Aspen, CO, Aspen, CO
2023 Rockland Residency, Kitsap, WA, Kitsap County, WA
2021 Fellowship Residency, Guemes Island, WA
2019- 2023 Resident Artist, Pottery North West, Seattle, WA
2017- 2019 Resident Artist, Seward Park Clay Studio, Seattle, WA
Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
2024
Celebrate Artist Grant
Anderson Ranch Residency Fellowship
2023
Artist Trust Fellowship
Collective Power Fund: Northwest Film Forum and Andy Warhol Foundation
4Culture Project Grant: Bokoku
2022
Allied Arts Foundation Artist Grant
2021
Neddy Award Finalist
2020
Robert B. McMillen Foundation, MAC Fellow
Office of Arts and Culture Seattle City Artist Grant, Seattle, WA
2019
Bernie Funk Fellowship, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
2018
Artist Trust GAP Grant
2012
Minidoka Pilgrimage Student Scholarship, Seattle University
2007
Tuition Waiver; University of Illinois School of Art and Design, Urbana-Champaign
Curation and Jurying
2024
Gallery 110 Guest Juror
Neddy Awards Local Guest Juror: Seattle, WA
2023
Heroes and Villains: Guest Juror: Columbia City Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022
Of Comfort and Chaos: Guest Juror: Kirkland Art Gallery, Kirkland, WA
Performances
2020
Yomi, Chief Sealth Trail, Seattle, WA
2019
Future Ancestors Festival, Seattle,WA
2011
Jorge Lucero lecture series, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
2010
“Strange Place Being,” Armory Black Box Theater, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Deke Weaver’s “Elephant,” Stock Pavilion, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Rosters
2017 Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Public Artist Roster
2016 Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Public Arts Boot Camp
2015 Office of Arts and Culture Ethnic Artist Roster
Public and Private Art Commissions
2017
Shunpike Storefronts Seattle
2016
Featured Artist, Tacoma Art Museum Gala
2015
City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, Art Interruptions Central District
City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Public Art Bootcamp
2014
Green Lake Elementary Mural, It’s a Process
Collections
Frye Art Museum
Washington State Convention Center
Seattle Public Utilities Fresh Perspectives II
Capital One Corporate Collection
Teaching
2024
Saltstone Ceramics Studio: Intro to Hand-building (8 weeks)
Pottery Northwest: The Shapely Vessel (10 weeks)
Kirkland Arts Center: The Shapely Vessel (10 weeks)
2023
Pottery Northwest: Little Gods (10 weeks)
Pottery Northwest: The Shapely Vessel (6 weeks)
Pottery Northwest: Release your Spirits (2 week workshop)
2019
Muddy Lotus Festival: Guest artist: experimenting with clay (1 day)
Seattle Housing Authority: Guest Artist: mask making with clay (2 weeks)
Kid’s Quest Bellevue: Guest artist: mask making with clay (4 weeks)
2018
Seward Park Clay Studio: Clay Flotilla: making buoyant ceramic sculptures (6 weeks)
2018
Muddy Lotus Festival: Guest artist: experimenting with clay (1 day)
2017
Muddy Lotus Festival: Guest artist: experimenting with clay (1 day)
2013-14
Seattle Mosaic Arts: Workshop instructor (1-day, 2 week, 4 week workshops, independent study instructor)
Press/ Publications
2024 Public Display Art: Hanako O’Leary (Jan. 31st, 2024) https://publicdisplay.art/artists/hanako-oleary
2023 Seattle Times: At Seattle’s Frye Art Museum, a show not for the prudish, By Gayle Clemans (Dec. 27th, 2023)
2022 International Examiner: Bodies of Land: Ann Leda Shapiro and Hanako O’Leary map the Terra Mater, By Danielle Quenell (Nov. 16- Dec. 6, 2022)
2022 Seattle Emerald: Artist O’Leary and Vaughan at King Street Station- Feminie Power by Duncan Gibbs
https://southseattleemerald.com/2022/06/09/artists-oleary-and-vaughan-at-king-street-station-feminine-power/
2022 Real Change News: Women and Power at King Street Station by Andrea Kreidler https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2022/05/25/women-and-power-king-street-station
2022 Art Access: In Comfort of Chaos at Kirkland Arts Center by Chloé Dye Sherpe
www.artaccess.com/articles/12765646
2021 New Archives: Nets: 4 Reviews of Hanako O’Leary’s Yomi
https://new-archives.org/nets-hanako-o-leary?explore
2020 Real Change News: The Womb is a Collective Underworld by Kamna Shastri
https://www.realchangenews.org/2020/09/30/womb-collective-underworld
2020 ‘BLACK AND CENTER’ SEPTEMBER 2020: MOVING WITH ART IN SEATTLE by Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
2020 Everett Herald: See modern feminism expressed through ceramics at EdCC exhibit by Evan Thompson
https://www.heraldnet.com/life/see-modern-feminism-expressed-through-ceramics-at-edcc-exhibit/
2019 Stranger Seattle Slog: Creation and Destruction of our own Underworld with Hanako O’Leary by Jasmyne Keimig https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/03/12/39575016/creation-and-destruction-of-our-own-underworld-with-hanako-oleary?fbclid=IwAR0GYw-aKsHSgE73-xVDGGnThZp7DvLXszNAfltiAJ0tQYkiHrix_qYhR9Y
2018 Crosscut: An Artist Gives Us the Dirt on Clay, by Susie Lee
https://crosscut.com/2018/08/artist-gives-us-dirt-clay
2017 Rhino in a Boat: Hashtag Millennial Fail, by Erin Shafkind
http://www.rhinoinaboat.com/2017/12/13/hashtag-millenial-fail/
Project Voice Podcast: I am mixed, and I am Asian
2016 31 Days of Revolutionary Women: An Introduction by Hanako O’Leary
2015 BackTALK with Hanako O’Leary