Hank Reavis (b. 1997, Seattle, WA) is a Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in airbrush and collage. His work explores how modern image proliferation shapes personal and collective experience. Employing pixelation, hard-edge cropping, and visual fragmentation, Reavis isolates ordinary subjects from their original contexts. These partial images act as mnemonic cues, suggestive to a memory and its association without explicitly illustrating it. This action acknowledges the limits of recollection: the essence remains recognizable, but true or total recovery is impossible.
His paintings reconstruct images one pixel at a time. Translating a source image by hand introduces a controlled distortion; echoing through images the mutable nature of memory. Repetition, attention, and care, become tools in a prolonged engagement which shapes the work’s meaning. An otherwise unassuming subject acquires significance via intentional acts of looking and making.
Collage provides a more immediate rhythm. Functioning as a form of drawing, it allows ideas to develop in real time as fragments are combined, textures layered, and compositions revised. Reavis draws from personal photographs, online imagery, archival resources, cultural icons, graffiti, and the visual language of the internet, bringing individual associations into conversation with a broader cultural vocabulary. A collage can serve as a study or exist as a finished work in print or image transfer. His printed images are physically distressed with solvents, a visual quality akin to the deterioration present in his paintings.
Across his practice, Reavis considers how we assign value, how we respond to gradual transformation, and what it means to appreciate something while watching it change. Underlying the work is a respect for loss, a sense of gratitude for having known something long enough to see it age and an earnestness in the selection of his subjects.
instagram: @hankreavis
hankreavis@gmail.com
Education
2019
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
Solo Exhibitions
2026
I Can See It From Here, Mini-Mart City Park, Seattle, WA
2022
Maximum Overdrive, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Little Trees, ARTXIV, Seattle, WA
Group Exhibitions
2026
Horsepower, curated by Noelle Whitaker and Alissa Williams. InScope, Miami, FL
A Shadow of Your Former Self/A Silver Sixpence in Your Shoe, curated by Bergen Hendrickson. Sitting Room, NY
Campers, curated by Hank Reavis and Bergen Hendrickson. Georgetown Steamplant. Seattle, WA
Growing Forward: The Neddy at 30 Years. Railspur. Seattle, WA
Let There Be Light, curated by Anthony White. Cannonball Arts. Seattle, WA
2025
Handlers, curated by Noelle Whitaker and Grayson Richter. Common Ground. Seattle, WA.
My City’s Filthy, curated by Cynthia Brothers. A/NT Gallery. Seattle, WA.
Sensory Archive, curated by Grayson Richter. Seattle, WA.
Propagations, curated by Malcolm and Stella Ramos. Mt Fargo. Los Angeles, CA.
Common Ground, curated by Grayson Richter and Brennan Young. Seattle, WA.
2024
Amor Tuyo, curated by Ozzie Juarez. Tlaloc Studios. Los Angeles, CA.
Fuck, what’s my job today?, Curated by Lilypad Magazine. Waste, London UK.
Melt, curated by CHITO. Hometeam Gallery. Seattle, WA.
Vulnerable/Venerable, curated by Philippe Kim. Behnke Gallery. Seattle, WA.
Adult Contemporary, curated by Problem Child Advisory. Guerrero Gallery. Los Angeles, CA.
Dive With Me, curated by Charles Peterson. Hometeam Gallery. Seattle, WA.
2023
Under Pressure, curated by MR CARTOON. Control Gallery. Los Angeles, CA.
Crucial Mass, Superchief Gallery. Los Angeles, CA.
Group Therapy, FFTT. Seattle, WA.
Chromatic Dynamic… Stress!, Galleria Fran Reus. Palma, SPN.
Bring Flowers, Artxiv. Seattle, WA.
2022
Forest for the Trees, Artxiv. Seattle, WA.
Crusher, curated by Mariel Eplboim. New Image Art. Los Angeles, CA.
2021
Untitled Art Fair (with New Image Art). Miami, Fl.
Hank Reavis and Noah Trimble, Better Gift Shop. Toronto, CA.
In Crystalized Time, curated by Anthony White. Museum of Museums. Seattle, WA.
2020
Beyond the Streets, Digital Art Fair presented by NTWRK, 2020.
Crescendo, New Image Art, curated by Mariel Eplboim. Los Angeles, CA.
Home, Whaam! Gallery. New York, NY.
Fate in a Pleasant Mood, curated by Heather Benjamin. 182 Ave. C, New York, NY.
2019
More Than A Feeling, Whaam! Gallery. Miami, FL.
The Jacket Show, curated by Jesse Brown. Gift Shop Gallery. Seattle, WA.