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C’naan Hamburger

C’naan Hamburger (b. 1984, Jerusalem, Israel; lives and works in New York, NY. MFA Painting Hunter College, 2023. BA, Tufts University, 2007.) Hamburger is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2023 and 2022, and the AXA Art Prize honorable mention in 2023 and prize finalist in 2021.

C’naan’s work is currently on view at Charles Moffett through April 20.

Her work has recently been exhibited by Kate Werble Gallery in New York, NY, and is held in the permanent collections of the Bartow-Pell Museum, Bronx, NY, and UMass Dartmouth, Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections. C’naan has been an outdoor educator for over a dozen years. Before pursuing her artistic practice, she was a World Champion skateboarder, named best female skater of 2001 by Transworld Skateboard Magazine; and in 2000, she won the World Cup of Skateboarding and the Van’s Triple Crown in Women’s Street.

C’naan Hamburger, Painting Class, 2023 Egg Tempera, pigment and ground NYC sidewalk on panel 11 x 12 inches (27.9 x 30.5 cm) Framed: 11 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 2 inches (29.2 x 31.8 x 5.1 cm). Photo by Andy Romer, courtesy of the artist and Charles Moffett.
C’naan Hamburger, Theatre Is The Domestication Of An Audience, 2023 Egg Tempera, pigment and ground steel construction plate on panel 14 x 18 inches (35.6 x 45.7 cm) Framed: 13 3/4 x 18 1/4 x 2 inches (34.9 x 46.4 x 5.1 cm).Photo by Andy Romer, courtesy of the artist and Charles Moffett.
C’naan Hamburger, Vanitas, 2023 Egg tempera, pigment and ground Manhattan Schist on panel 28 x 39 inches (71.1 x 99.1 cm) Framed: 29 3/8 x 40 3/8 x 2 inches (74.6 x 102.6 x 5.1 cm). Photo by Andy Romer, courtesy of the artist and Charles Moffett.
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  1. […] C’naan Hamburger joined us to talk about her exhibition, Vanitas, on view until April 20 at Charles Moffett Gallery. The title refers to a genre of master paintings from the Dutch Golden Age (1575-1675), but Hamburger says it can relate to so many other things. The works in the show are egg tempera paintings. To learn more, listen to the complete interview. […]

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