Artist Bio

Hannah Paras is a Junior at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art with a Fine Arts major and a Gender Studies minor.

Hannah's body of work explores the queer domestic space and the complexities of the lesbian identity through high-camp, vibrant, and visually queer artworks. Hannah defines "queer" not only as a sexuality identifier but as something being or becoming non-normative. Their style of making centers around the deconstruction and recontextualization of media and existing imagery to build queer, collage based works. World building is an important aspect of Hannah's work, focusing on queer futurism by redefining and imagining traditionally heteronormative spaces and objects.

Hannah's Works explores liminal spaces and identities, existence between subject and object, viewer and spectacle, inside and outside, domestic and public. Often working in multiples, repetition or patterns, relating to their fascination with apartment buildings, the multiple scenes within one building and the dynamics multiplicity creates in a shared domestic space. 

More About Hannah!

Hannah is a 20 years old art student, describing themself as a pink poodle lesbian who makes art to inspire queer joy in hetero dominated spaces. Their current style inspirations are victorian homes, cake, and alphabet soup. Hannah's favorite movie is Little Shop Of Horrors and they love to bake and sew!