Hannah Claus
Hannah Claus was born on February 7, 1969 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She grew up in Saint John, and she currently lives in Montréal, Quebec. She is a member of the Bay of Quinte Mohawks First Nation and she received her Associate of the Ontario College of Art and Design Diploma with Honors in Fine Arts in 1997, and her Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts from Concordia University in 2004. Claus is a multidisciplinary artist who creates suspended sculptural installations or videos that reference time, place, elements, or bodies of water. Her materials of choice include vellum or acrylic sheets printed with three-dimensional images, or natural materials such as porcupine quills.