About

Through a practice of painting, sculpture, and video works, Oceanna Hain exposes the malleability, fragility and potential of the human form. Her work expands on the possibilities of the future body set forth by Transhuman discourse and investigates the liminal space the body resides in when it is in a transitional, unfixed state. Using an experimental process of cataloging the body through self portraiture and re-imagining it through paint and sculpture, the work offers a departure from reality and the known human form. Her current practice centers around themes of hybrid forms of physicality, navigating social and bodily boundaries regarding sex, gender and form, hierarchical relationships between subject and viewer and identity formations within embodiment.

Hain received a Bachelor of Arts and California Single Subject teaching credential from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California (2020). She completed her Master of Fine Arts at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia in 2023. Hain is based in Naarm (Melbourne) where she works as a teacher and continues her practice.

Education

2023
Master of Fine Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, AUS
2020
Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
  • Minors in Art History and Secondary Education
California Single Subject Teaching Credential, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

Exhibitions

2024
Liminality, The Cluster Collective: Dreams & Nightmares, Collarts, Melbourne, VIC - Collective
Push/Pull and Intertwine, QVWC x Women*Now, QV Women’s Center, Melbourne, VIC - Collective
The Body Malleable, RMIT Graduate Exhibition, RMIT Buildings 2 and 4, Melbourne, VIC - Collective
2023
The Body Malleable, RMIT Group Critique, Gossard Space Building 49, Melbourne
Becoming III, RMIT Discussion: “How gender and inclusivity intersect in the arts”, Melbourne
Push/Pull, RMIT Group Critique, Building 39, Melbourne
2022
Flesh Flux, RMIT Group Critique, Gossard Space Building 49, Melbourne
Transcendence, RMIT Group Critique, Online Presentation
Becoming, RMIT Group Critique, Online Presentation
2021
Glaring, RMIT Group Critique, Online Presentation
2020
Divine Feminine, LMU Undergraduate Senior Thesis Show, Los Angeles, CA - Collective