BIOGRAPHY

Hannah Shipley is mixed media artist and educator from North Carolina. She has earned a BFA from Appalachian State University, and is currently continuing her education at the University of Florida. She is expected to receive her MFA in May 2026.

Introduced to painting and drawing at a young age, her work has evolved to explore a complicated familial past, whilst challenging the creation of identity and highlighting the incorrectness and messiness of memory. With a collaborative ideation process, her work engages storytelling through multiple perspectives, the act of remembering, and embracing the unknowable. Her work is not a method of fixing truth; rather, a constant revision of perception and understanding to whom and where we belong.

Shipley has exhibited in venues locally, regionally, and nationally. Her most recent exhibiton include Under Her Wing, in Gainesville, FL at 4most Gallery, as well as exhibitions at USM Museum of Art, Hattiesburg, MS, and Smith Gallery in Boone, NC.