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Hannah Rose Johansen is an emerging studio artist born in San Diego, California. She works in her in-apartment studio on oil and acrylic paintings, illustrations, and performative works. Hannah graduated from UCSD's Studio Art program and received her bachelors degree in 2014. Hannah is currently enrolled at Mesa college Museum Studies. She participates in San Diego county art shows and enjoys her membership with local feminist collective, FIG. Her subjects are usually distorted self portraits, taking on monstrous or alien forms. Sex, pain, and kitsch are focuses of her work. Her goals involve educating others on the experience of chronic illness through her artwork. 

The works I strive to create entice the viewer, alluring them into a more empathetic state. Once there I can, using narrative, adhere myself to the viewer’s heartstrings. I use the shimmering, butter like qualities of oil paint smeared on canvas to transport my audience. The delicate nature of my line work is betrayed by unfiltered content, adult in nature. I want the viewer to understand the monstrosity of chronic pain, and the joy of being a bisexual nonbinary woman. Those two sides of the coin that is persisting to live in a world that often doesn’t want you. I use performance art to capture the moments I find untranslatable without my physical body present.