HANNE TIERNEY.
internationally acclaimed artist and curator
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY.
Hanne Tierney is a New York city based artist and curator. She specializes in experimental puppetry, mainly in the presentations of intensely emotional gestures and movements by non figurative objects and materials. Tierney, an internationally known puppet theater artist, has shown her work at Bitef in Belgrade, Fidena in Bochum, Espace Kiron in Paris, Akademie der Kuenste in Berlin, the Sidney Biannale, and other international and U.S. venues. In New York she performed at the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, and at every Jim Henson Internation Puppet Theater Festivals between 1992 and 2006. Tierney was a visiting lecturer at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts in the sculpture department from 1992-1994.
She is the founder and director of Five Myles, an exhibition and performance space in Crown Heights, that received an OBIE in 2000 for Tierney’s performance of Oscar Wilde’s Salome.
ARTIST INTERVIEW.
Stay tuned for the interview, to be released on August 3.
"I find that I understand artists so well, even if other people don't like their work, or if I don't like their work. I kind of know what they're aiming at. I know they're often after things that can't be explained. I can see that because I can see it in myself."
Tierney and her collaborators—especially wonder-making musician Jane Wang... have created
A WORK OF
INCANDESCENT AND
UNWORDLY BEAUTY.
-THE VILLAGE VOICE
GALLERY.
Discover photos and videos from Hanne's work.
CREDITS: A Play Called Not and Now, by Gertrude Stein, photo courtesy of the artist; Headshot courtesy of the artist; Homage to Popova: An experiment in puppetry, photo courtesy of the artist; 18 Stanzas Sung to a Tatar Reed Whistle, photo courtesy of the artist.