Rania Hassan
Rania Hassan makes installations that combine knitting with painting to weave sculptural stories about our connections to time, place, and circumstance. The five main themes she works with embody ideas of time, memory, identity, synchronicity, and community. Rania’s artwork is included in the permanent collections of the National Institutes of Health (NIH, Bethesda, MD), Amazon Web Services (Herndon, VA), and the District of Columbia’s Art Bank Collection (Washington, DC). Previous solo exhibitions include The Front (New Orleans, LA), Gormley Gallery (Baltimore, MD), and Artisphere (Rosslyn, VA). She has given presentations about her artwork at area Universities (George Mason University, 2014) and Museums (Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, 2019; Textile Museum, 2012, 2015), and her work has been featured in publications including the Washington Post, Washington City Paper, and Vogue Knitting. In 2009, she received a Craft Award of Excellence from the James Renwick Alliance, and she has been awarded multiple Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program Grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
