ABOUT

Hallie Bahn is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working in non-traditional and expanded animation. Using sculpture, stop motion, and digital 2D animation, her practice looks to dissolve the traditional boundaries of screen-based digital animation and create interactive, physical relationships between the art and the viewer.

Bahn’s work has been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally, including at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art, A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton, Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, Public Functionary in Minneapolis, Marinaro Gallery in New York, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Arts Center in Buffalo, NY, Center for Mediterranean Architecture in Chania, Greece, and the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City, Mexico. Bahn was a 2026 winter artist-in-residence at the Wassaic Project, 2025 recipient of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement's Subvention Grant, 2022 Public Interest Technology Faculty Fellow, and 2020 Next Step Fund recipient. She was awarded the January 2027 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship and will be a 2026-2027 Civic Engagement & Service-Learning Faculty Fellow.

Bahn is based in Western Massachusetts where they are the Assistant Professor of Animation at UMass Amherst.