Hannah Claus (member of Kenhtè:ke | Tyendinaga Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte) is a Kanien’kehá:ka and English visual artist who engages Onkwehon:we epistemology to highlight ways of understanding and being in relation with the world.
She obtained her AOCAD from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Tkaronto [Toronto] (1997) and her Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke [Montreal] (2004). A 2019 Eiteljorg Fellow and 2020 recipient of the Prix Giverny, recent exhibitions include Contextile: Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art (Guimarães, Portugual), Outside the Box (Iroquois Museum, Howes Cave NY) and the North American touring exhibition, Radical Stitch.
Her solo exhibition, tsi iotnekahtentiónhatie [where the waters flow] took place at the Canada House Gallery in London, England in October 2025. Claus’ installations belong to various public collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Eiteljorg Museum, North American Native Museum (Zurich, CH), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Global Affairs and the City of Montreal.
Concurrent with her studio practice, Claus is an Associate Professor in Frameworks and Interventions of Indigenous Art Practice in the Department of Studio Arts at Concordia University and holds a Concordia University Research Chair in Onkwehonwené:ha (New Scholar). She has been a board member of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (2013 – 2018) and the Conseil des arts de Montréal (2017-2024) and is currently Co-Director of the Indigenous Futures Research Centre at Concordia University. She is one of the co-founders of daphne, a new Indigenous contemporary arts centre based in Tiohtià:ke.
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