{"id":2019,"date":"2025-08-16T21:31:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T21:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/?post_type=artist&p=2019"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:42:16","slug":"an-ha","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/artist\/an-ha\/","title":{"rendered":"An H\u00e0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An H\u00e0 (he\/him) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Boston. His practice centers on finding, collecting, arranging, and orchestrating materials such as discarded photographs, household dust, clothes, toys, and furniture. He stages and animates these materials to explore the poetic language within the everyday objects. His work evokes a sense of intimacy, where meaning is not overtly stated but subtly suggested. Through the transformation of discarded materials, H\u00e0 turns absence into presence, revealing what we carry with us and in us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e0 is a co-founder of Copenger, a curatorial and arts programming collective centered on community, organizing experimental gatherings across both conventional and unconventional spaces in the Greater Boston area. H\u00e0 was also a recipient of the Julie Graham Prize from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and was named a traveling fellow for Anne E. Borghesani Memorial Prize from Tufts University. He attended the Yale Norfolk School of Art in 2025 and is set to graduate with a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Untitled<\/em>, 2024
Household dust, found drawer
17 x 20.5 in.\u00a0
Courtesy of the artist
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Untitled<\/em>, 2024
Household dust, found drawer,
17 x 20.5 in.
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Untitled<\/em>, 2024
Household dust, paper crane, found drawer,
33.5 x 24 in.
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