Hannah Doucet (she/her) is an artist, arts educator and cultural worker from Winnipeg (Treaty 1 Territory) currently based in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is a visual artist working within photography, video and sculpture to explore fantasy, illness, the body, anxiety and performativity. Her work extends the photographic medium into sculptural and installation works that emphasize the failure, artifice, materiality and malleability of the photographic medium. Her current body of work A Wish Stays With You explores personal, political, theoretical, and aesthetic inquiries embedded within the themes of illness, fantasy and wish fulfillment, all observed through the lens of her own experience receiving a wish trip to Disney World when she was ten after two years of treatment for Lymphoma.
Doucet has exhibited across Canada, with exhibitions at Neutral Ground (Regina) Duplex (Vancouver), PLATFORM ( Winnipeg), The New Gallery ( Calgary) and Gallery 44 (Toronto). Doucet was one of the inaugural winner of the PLATFORM photography award in 2017 and was long listed for the National Gallery of Canada’s New Generation Photography award in 2019. She is one of four founders of Blinkers, a project space based in Winnipeg, where she was a co-director until August 2021.
Photo by Sarah Bodri