Angela Hennessy
2023 Eureka Fellow
Angela Hennessy is an Oakland-based artist and survivor of gun violence. Tending to themes of loss and liberation, her practice draws upon mourning practices that activate hair as a material exchanged between the living and the dead.
Hennessy’s work has been featured in exhibitions in San Francisco at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts and the Museum of the African Diaspora, and at the Oakland Museum of California and Pt. 2 Gallery in Oakland. She is in the collections of the de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA. She has received awards from Artadia, the Svane Family Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
She holds an MFA from California College of the Arts where she teaches courses on contemporary narratives of death. Hennessy is currently making sculptures and installations constructed with everyday gestures of domestic labor—washing, wrapping, stitching, weaving, brushing, and braiding.
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