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Hanan
Harchol was born in Kibbutz Kinneret, Israel in 1970, and moved to New
Jersey at the age of two. He received a BFA with Highest Honors in Painting
and
Drawing from The Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, where
he
was a four-year Merit Scholar. Hanan received a 1998 New Jersey State
Council
on the Arts Fellowship, and in 2002 received an MFA in Painting and Drawing
from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2004, Hanan was awarded
The Ronnie Heyman Prize, by The National Foundation for Jewish Culture.
Hanan
was recently published in the book “Jewish Art In America: An Introduction”,
by
Prof. Matthew Baigell, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc, Nov. 2006.
Hanan’s artwork has been exhibited around the country in museums
and
galleries, including The Chicago Cultural Center, The Museum of Jewish
Heritage
in New York, The Hebrew Union College Museum, and The Jersey City Museum,
as well as a solo exhibition in Warsaw Poland. His work was featured on
the
front page of The Chicago Tribune’s TEMPO section, and in ARTnews,
and
articles about Hanan’s work have appeared in Chicago Arts and Entertainment
News, The Jewish Week, and The Jewish Ledger. In his work, Hanan uses
family
narratives as a springboard for addressing larger psychological and sociological
themes pertaining to the human condition. The narratives take their form
in
paintings, drawings, animations, videos, and multimedia installations.
At the
heart of his narratives is a character, ‘The Nuclear Physicist’,
based on Hanan’s
father, an Israeli nuclear physicist of Eastern-European Jewish heritage.
In the
animations and videos, Hanan impersonates both of his parents’ voices.
For the past several years, Hanan has been focusing almost entirely on
his
animations, combining his drawings and paintings with video and photography
to create a new type of “painterly animation”. Hanan’s
animations have screened
at numerous film festivals worldwide. Some highlights are The Stuttgart
Festival
of Animated Film, where his film was a finalist in the Adult Television
Series
competition, Anifest International Festival of Animated Films in the Czech
Republic, The Brooklyn International Film Festival at The Brooklyn Museum,
where he won Audience Animation Favorite, The San Francisco Jewish Film
Festival (the world’s oldest and largest Jewish film festival),
The New York
Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center, The Boston Jewish Film Festival,
RiverRun
International Film Festival, The Washington Jewish Film Festival, The
Hartford
Jewish Film Festival at The Aldrich Museum with an opening-night screening,
The
Montreal Jewish Film Festival, The Mexico International Jewish Film Festival,
The
San Diego International Film Festival, New York’s 92nd Street Y’s
Reel Jews Film
Festival, The Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, and The San Diego Jewish Film
Festival, where Hanan was a resident artist and featured speaker, and
won
audience favorite.
Hanan supports himself as a professional classical guitarist. He has won
national
awards and competitions in guitar, and was broadcast numerous times on
96.3FM, WQXR, New York. Hanan has recorded seven CDs, and entertains at
various corporate, public, and private events, including regular performances
at
The Tavern On The Green, and other venues in New York.