John Hanning is a Visual and Literary artist. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, where he creates collages, books, and paintings. His work explores themes of anxiety, surveillance, paranoia, the bankrupt morality of religion, commentary on American values, the LGBTQ and AIDS movements. Hanning’s work has been shown at Spritmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden; the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA; and The Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, Canada. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art Research Library, New York, NY; the Museum of Modern Art Research Library, New York, NY, the New York Public Library Research Division, New York, NY; the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, CA; and Camera Austria Public Library, Graz, Austria.