Hannah-Sophia Guerriero
Hannah-Sophia Guerriero (b. 2002, Oldham, UK) is a UK-based painter whose work is held in several private collections, including the Ryan Taylor Collection.
In 2024, she completed Louise Giovanelli’s Apollo Painting School programme. In 2025, Guerriero was selected for the Artworks Special feature in GalleriesNow (April edition).
Selected exhibitions include: 2026, Apollo Painting School: 2024 & 2025 Cohorts, The Grundy Museum and Gallery, Blackpool; DISPLAY, Parma, Italy (solo); Apollo Painting School: 2024 & 2025 Cohorts Alice Amati, London; 2025, Veils of Space, Alma Pearl Gallery, London (solo); Interchange, Heav11n, Manchester; ALL THE SMALL THINGS II, Soup Gallery, London; In Residence, In Transit Chapter II, Museo Cambellotti, Latina, Italy; Apollo Painting School, Alice Amati, London; 2024, In Residenza, In Transito, Museo Cambellotti, Latina, Italy; 2023, Selected Ten Student Exchange, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg; 2020, Future Creatives 2020, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester.
Concurrent Exhibitions: Showing at The Glasgow School of Art and Grundy Art Gallery
Grundy Art Gallery
28 March – 28 June 2026
Press Release:
Presented in conversation with, but separate to Louise Giovanelli’s solo exhibition From Here to Here to Here, this exhibition platforms emerging painters from the 2024 and 2025 cohort of Apollo Painting School.
The exhibition assembles a range of approaches to painting that reflect its continued relevance as a critical and evolving medium. While points of contact emerge between the practices, each artist speaks with their own singular language. Moving through abstraction and figuration, fictional constructs and personal memory, painterly openness and spatial rigour, the exhibition forms a constellation of distinct practices that offer a snapshot of emerging contemporary painting in the UK today.
BA, Degree Show, The Glasgow School of Art
29 May – 7 June 2026
Working in the legacy of Northern Renaissance precision, her practice interrogates the contemporary sublime through the mechanics of scale, attention, and duration. By either distilling dense materiality into the proportions of the handheld screen or marooning fragments within an expansive void, Guerriero generates a spatial excess that counters the visual saturation of digital culture. Through strategies of glazing, veiling, and formal restraint, she stages the painting as both image and object—holding the viewer within a paradox of intimacy and inaccessibility. This is a commitment to the slow image: a mode of resistance where meaning emerges through the reclaimed necessity of a singular gaze.
Farewell, 2026, Oil on canvas, 230 × 110 cm
Tension, 2026, Oil on pine wood panel, 9.8 x 6.7 cm
Subtle, 2026, Oil on pine wood panel, 9.8 x 6.7 cm
First Image: Subtle, 2026, Hannah-Sophia Guerriero, Oil on pine wood panel, 9.8 x 6.7 cm, (On show at GSA Degree Show, Glasgow)
Second Image: DISPLAY, Solo Show, Installation view, Fuit Hic, Hannah-Sophia Guerriero, Parma Italy
Third Image: DISPLAY, Solo Show, Installation view, Fuit Hic, Hannah-Sophia Guerriero, Parma Italy
Fourth Image: Grundy Art Gallery, Apollo Painting School, Installation view, Group Show, Hannah-Sophia Guerriero, The Two Central Miniature Paintings, Photo © Grundy Art Gallery (Brendan McGregor)
Fifth: Image: Seen, 2025, Hannah-Sophia Guerriero, Oil on pine wood panel, 9.5 x 7 x 2.5cm, In the Ryan Taylor Collection, (On show at the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool)
Sixth Image: Grundy Art Gallery, Apollo Painting School, Installation view, Group Show, Hannah-Sophia Guerriero, The Two Central Miniature Paintings, Photo © Grundy Art Gallery (Brendan McGregor)
Seventh Image: Installation view, Tension, 2026, GSA Degree Show, Glasgow
Eighth Image: Installation view, Subtle, 2026, GSA Degree Show, Glasgow
