HANNAH TAURINS
b. 1997, United StatesHannah Taurins is an American artist whose tightly composed, hybrid drawing–paintings mine fashion photography and pop imagery to explore how women are seen, desired, and represented in contemporary visual culture. Working in coloured pencil, marker, gouache, and other media on paper mounted to panel, Taurins reworks glossy source material into psychologically charged scenes that hover between allure and detachment.
Early Life and Background
Hannah Taurins was born in Houston, Texas, and now lives and works in New York City. She earned a BFA from The Cooper Union in New York, where her interest in image circulation, fashion, and the construction of female subjectivity began to take shape in her studio practice. Her work is informed by a close reading of editorial photography, celebrity culture, and the ways in which media frames desire and visibility, particularly around women who perform being seen.
Hannah Taurins Artworks
Hannah Taurins’s artworks are characterised by a meticulous, graphic style that blends drawing and painting into dense, layered compositions on paper mounted to panel. Her subjects—often models, performers, and archetypal ‘femme’ figures—are rendered with a seductive precision that simultaneously underscores their constructedness, questioning the line between subject and object in the image economy.
Fashion, media, and the female gaze
Taurins’s practice centres on reworking found fashion and editorial photographs, selectively extracting and recontextualising figures, poses, and props to create new narratives. In works such as Marilyn Bathing (2022) and Grin (2022), she amplifies the performative aspects of glamour while introducing subtle distortions of scale, cropping, and surface that disrupt the image’s original seductive logic.
Hybrid drawing–painting technique
Her technique combines the precision of coloured pencil and marker with the fluidity of gouache and other media, building up surfaces that are both highly controlled and materially rich. This hybrid approach allows her to maintain the crisp, graphic quality of the photographic source while introducing painterly gestures that emphasise the hand-made and the psychological.
Hannah Taurins’ Exhibitions
Hannah Taurins has been the subject of both solo and group exhibitions at galleries and project spaces in the United States and abroad. To be kept up to date with upcoming exhibitions featuring Hannah Taurins, follow her on Ocula.
Select solo exhibitions
- God, Let Me Be Your Instrument, Theta, New York (2025)
- Cover Girl, Theta, New York (2022)
- Solo exhibition, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles (2023)
- Solo exhibition, Brant-Timonier, Palm Beach (2023)
Select group exhibitions
- That Was Then, This Is Now, Jeffrey Deitch, Miami Design District, Miami (2025–2026)
- 100 Years of Drawing, Spazio Amanita, New York (2023)
- Step Count, Shoot the Lobster, New York (2022)
- A somewhat thin line, In Lieu, Los Angeles (2022)
- Group exhibitions at Venus Over Manhattan, New York; Entrance, New York; High Art, Seoul (2022–2024)
Hannah Taurins FAQs
Who is Hannah Taurins?
Hannah Taurins is an American contemporary artist, born in Houston in 1997, known for her hybrid drawing–painting practice that reworks fashion and editorial photography to explore female subjectivity and the politics of being seen. You can follow Hannah Taurins on Ocula to learn more about her work, find out about art for sale, contact her gallery, and keep up to date with upcoming exhibitions.
Where can I see work by Hannah Taurins?
You can see Hannah Taurins’s work in exhibitions with her gallery, Theta, in New York, and in group shows such as That Was Then, This Is Now at Jeffrey Deitch in the Miami Design District, as well as in presentations at galleries in Los Angeles, Palm Beach, and Seoul. You can follow Hannah Taurins on Ocula to receive alerts on upcoming exhibitions by the artist.
Where does Hannah Taurins live?
Hannah Taurins lives and works in New York City, maintaining a studio practice that connects her Houston roots with an international exhibition context.
How is Hannah Taurins’s name pronounced?
Hannah Taurins is generally pronounced ‘HAN-uh TOR-ins’, with the stress on the first syllable of her first name and the second syllable of her surname.
Where can I buy Hannah Taurins’s work?
Hannah Taurins has been represented by leading contemporary art galleries, including Theta in New York, which handles sales of her artworks. You can Ocula’s art advisory team to learn more about buying or selling her work.
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