Hannah Sullivan Day is an American contemporary artist (b. 1997) primarily known for abstract landscape painting. Day grew up in Maine spending most of her time on the water, living aboard boats and summering on Cliff Island. She cultivated a deep attachment to saltwater bodies at a young age, where she experienced familiarity and comfort during times of turmoil. Her studio practice is entangled with dualities, such as: abstraction and figuration, conscious and unconscious, pleasure and pain, violence and fragility, industrial and organic, decay and reparation. Day thinks of painting as a kind of healing, where she is permitted to navigate thoughts and hard truths on a personal and societal level. Although critical reflection prompts her to make, Day resolves the work with a degree of aesthetic value; so that the experience is soothing for viewers, rather than triggering. In 2015—2017, Day attended San Francisco Art Institute where she studied environmental philosophy, feminist literature, photography, painting, printmaking and ceramics. In 2017 Day worked in art handling and installation at San Francisco Art Institute’s Gala: The Original Disruptor. Day worked alongside Taravat Talepasand and showed and sold her “Night Women” 2016 ceramic vessel in Taravat’s Pop Up Bazaar. Day also installed and deinstalled Lorena Perez Villers, Ribbonsnight, 2017. Day curated and showed her first solo exhibition, “Nurture in Nature” in Fall 2018 at Zandhead Gallery, Portland Maine. A year later she curated her plein air show “Sediment” at Friedman Gallery, Portland Maine. Currently Day is an independent curator and artist based in Portland Maine. Her primary income is from working at the Portland Museum of Art as a VME ambassador and the Institute of Contemporary Art as a Gallery ambassador and art handler. Day is enrolled at Maine College of Art and is anticipating graduation in 2020 with a degree in Painting and a minor in Sustainable Ecology Art and Design.