Rraine Hanson

Rraine Hanson is a Jamaican transdisciplinary artist who designs worlds through mixed media to tell stories centering the imaginations of queer and trans people of colour. His visual style is heavily informed by surrealism and the aesthetics of his Caribbean upbringing and is always seeking to answer the question: what can be found in the crevice between our dreams and our memories? He was awarded the 2020 Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant for his short film Mooncake, which premiered at e-flux and has since been acquired by UCLA Film & Television's queer moving image archive. When they’re not experimenting with their own storytelling, they work on other productions helping art departments build a myriad of different worlds. The hands-on crafting experience informs the methodology behind all their personal creative endeavors, both written and visual. He has also curated for publications, exhibits and assisted film festival programming teams as a means to champion other unique and underrepresented makers and thinkers.