Dex Hannon

Dex Hannon is originally from Manchester now based in Blyth, North East England. His art lives in several private collections across the world. He has featured in books and magazines, both in the UK and abroad.

In 2025, he won the Collectors' Art Prize - Legends of Our Time Award.
In 2020, he won best in show for the International Art Folio 2020 Annual award.
In 2019, he was shortlisted for the Refresh Art Prize 2019.

Dex Hannon is a British multimedia artist whose work encompasses paint, digital art, film, sound, and photography. His practice is an exploration of transformation and reinvention. At its core is a guiding question: “What else could it be?” A single frame can ignite an entire cascade of creation, a painting, a film or a digital work, each one carrying within it the potential for the next. In this recursive approach, the boundaries between mediums dissolve. Paintings give rise to films, films fracture into digital works, and digital interventions in turn inspire new material explorations. Nothing is ever final. Each work functions simultaneously as culmination and inception, a node within an expanding network of possibility.

Hannon works across painting, film and digital media, frequently collaborating with alter...

1999 - 2002 Manchester Metropolitan University
Design and Art Direction BA hons

1998 - 1999 South Trafford College
Foundation in Art & Design

1989 - 1991 Stockport College
BTEC OND in Graphic Design

1988 - 1989 Stockport College
BTec nat dip Art & design

The Secret Salon: London Open 2025 18 October 2025 - Digital Art and Film - C and D, Sugar House, 4 Cooperage Yard, Hackney, London E15 2QR

ABSTRACTION 25 - Line, Form, and Harmony - Alliance Française Cusco - Peru - October 2025

Republic gallery: Solo Show - September - October 2025

Wow Northumberland : Ashington - Woodhorn Museum 15-02 2025 - 06-06-2025

The Path - Palazzo Pisani-Revedin, during the Venice Biennale September - November 2024

Northlight Arts - Leeds June - October 2024

Headway Arts Open - June 2024

Spring Awakening - Fox Yard Studio Art Gallery - May 2024

Wow Northumberland : Ashington - Woodhorn Museum 15-02 2024 - 06-06-2024

November 22 - Kraftstrom - B22
at the Contemporary Art Museum of Cusco - Peru

June 2020 -skt gallery

June 2019 - Shortlisted Artists Show - Refresh Art Prize London 5th Base Gallery

August -2017 – Joint Show – Editions – Dex Hannon – Munro Art Gallery Leeds

August – 2017 – Joint Show – Industria – Dex Hannon Hebden Bridge

June 2016 - Photoplay #02 - London Brewdog Synaesthesia performance

March 2016 - Lemonade Gallery - Synaesthesia performance for the 'Them' show

October 2015 - November 2016 - Kunsthuis Gallery, York

July 2015 - September 2016 - Outlaws Yacht Club, Leeds

May...