Hana Yilma
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→https://brooklynrail.org/2024/02/artseen/Hana-Yilma-Godine-A-Brush-in-the-Universe/
→https://hyperallergic.com/hana-yilma-godine-a-hair-salon-in-addis-ababa-review/
→https://www.wnyc.org/story/new-manhatten-art-show-looks-role-women-ethiopia/
→https://news.artnet.com/art-world/studio-visit-hana-yilma-godine-2066306
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→ 2024 A Treatise on Color, Group Exhibition, Curated by J.E. Azmi. Fridman Gallery New York NY, September 4 – October 5
→ 2024 A Brush in the Universe, Solo exhibition, Fridman Gallery and Rachel Uffner Gallery New York, NY January 13 – March 2
→ 2022 Substance in Ethiopia, Artist-in-residence solo exhibition, Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY
→ A Hair Salon in Addis Ababa, Solo exhibitions, Fridman Gallery and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
→ 2021 Victory, Solo exhibition, National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. April 2 –18
→ 2020 Spaces within Space, solo exhibition, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY.
→ Spaces within Space, solo exhibition, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA.
→ 2019 Sensation, feeling: texture, juried exhibition, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA.
→ Group exhibition, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA.
→ Group exhibition, Muse Gallery, Columbus, OH.
→ 2018 Solo exhibition, Muse Gallery, Columbus, OH.
→ 2016 Group exhibition, Muse Gallery, Columbus, OH.
→ 2015 Women Annual Exhibition, Laphto Art Gallery, Addis Ababa.
→ 2013 Group exhibition, LELA Art Gallery, Addis Ababa.
→ 2012 African Identity, group exhibition, Sheraton Addis Ababa.
→ 2011 The Road Story, Alliance Ethio-France, solo exhibition, Sheraton Addis Ababa.
→ Neoscape, group exhibition curated by Leo Lefort. Atelier Fine Arts Gallery, Addis Ababa.
→ The Bathers, solo exhibition, National Theatre Art Gallery, Addis Ababa.
→ Fana Wagi project award exhibition, Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa.
→ 2010 Group exhibition, Ethiopian National Museum.
→ Artist-in-residence exhibition, Casa Da Xuventude de Ourense, Spain.
→ 2009 Group exhibition, KZ Hotel, Addis Ababa.
→ 2008 Group exhibition curated by Miheret Kebede, Addis Ababa Exhibition Center.
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Hana Yilma Godine‘s work is influenced by observations of her surroundings and social structures during her upbringing in the multicultural metropolis of Addis Ababa, and while traveling and studying in Europe and the United States.
Godine received an MFA from Boston University in 2020, having previously studied at Casa Da Zhventude de Ourence, Spain; the Abyssinia School of Fine Art and Design, and the Ale School of Fine Art and Design, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where her teacher was the modernist master Tadesse Mesfin.
Godine’s first U.S. solo exhibition, Spaces within Space, opened at Fridman Gallery in 2020. Her first institutional exhibition premiered at the National Museum of Ethiopia in April, 2021.
As a painter, I pay attention to the commonalities between people and the relationships they have with their environments. My artistic motivations and decisions draw from what I know and what I don’t, my own rational and intuitive observations, and preexisting visual and written languages.
I think about painting as a space that mediates time and place, bringing together people from a globalized world, and reconciling the past, present, and future into one unified form. Figures are central to my compositions. Their colorful, transparent, and collaged surfaces suggest embedded histories and embodied feelings. I work symbolically to communicate the complexity of women's lives and see them as a source of life within my paintings.
Growing up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a large city populated by people of many cultures, I have observed firsthand a variety of languages, religions, and cultural traditions. Visiting Europe and moving to the United States has inspired me further and exposed me to an even broader understanding of culture. I think about how these important and present qualities of life can be expressed through the visual language and the materiality of painting.
Accumulation of mark and color, the layering of space, and the use of different materials as a substance such as fabrics, printed images, wood, thread, and paint allows me to describe, visually, the realities of a specific place and it’s social and environmental situations and create a conversation in the global space. Preserving ideas from the fabrics in the process of making painting allows the fabric to function as a paint but not as a surface.
Working with a spectrum of transparency and opacity, I communicate the sensations of an environment such as atmosphere, air, wind, and speed, all of which evoke the flow and movement of life. My paintings also included drawing incorporated throughout them. I draw in paint first, then lose the drawing as I apply color with paint and fabric, and later, find it again.
My recent experimentation with fabric, historical printed images represents a huge shift in my studio practice in the way that it is informing the content and formal structures of my work. Moreover, it is a symbol of the connection between the body, the earth, and the Universe as a substance.
