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Hannah Niño Harris (b. 1991) is a mixed-media artist based in San Antonio. Her practice examines the emotional and physical labor women undertake in preserving heirlooms, memorabilia, and traditions. Drawing from family archives, vintage objects, and inherited materials, she transforms metal, ceramic, fiber, paper, and cyanotype into vessels for memory and cultural continuity.
Niño Harris holds dual BFAs in Ceramics and Painting and Drawing from The University of North Texas and an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from The University of Texas at Arlington. Her work has been exhibited throughout Texas, including exhibitions at S.M.A.R.T. SA, PAPER ROOM Studio, The Golden Rose Gallery, and San Antonio Art League & Museum, where she received the William & Elizabeth Chiego Patron Award in 2026. In addition to her studio practice, she is the Director and Exhibition Manager of Thrd Space Studio, where she co-organizes exhibitions supporting emerging and contemporary craft artists.
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Artist Type: Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Artisan, Ceramist, Jeweler, Mixed Media Artist, Textiles
Artist Style: Teaching Artist/Instructor: Instruction for Adults, Instruction for Children, Instruction for Seniors; Visual Art: Assemblage, Contemporary, Icongraphic/Iconoclastic, Narrative/Historical, Photo-Based Painting
Artist Medium: Clay; Drawing Media; Fiber/Fabric; Cyanotype
Artist Statement of Work
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My practice examines the labor women undertake in preserving heirlooms and family memorabilia, and the role of selective memory in the retelling of familial and personal histories. Drawing inspiration from storytellers and unreliable narrators, I fragment and recontextualize patterns, objects, and photographs to generate new narratives.
Found materials from family archives, vintage shops, and heirlooms operate as both subject and medium, embodying the complexity of memory itself. When such objects are absent, I reconstruct them through metal, ceramic, fiber, paper, or cyanotype, emphasizing the act of making as a form of remembrance and reinterpretation. Through this process, my work questions how memory is preserved and transmitted to a generation of new viewers.
