Hannah Lupton Reinhard

Born in Orange County in 1996, Hannah Lupton Reinhard attended the Rhode Island School of Art and Design. While studying, she came across a secret room called ‘The Crystal Palace’. Swarovski had donated half a million dollars worth of crystals to the school’s furniture department, and Lupton Reinhard, who was on the painting course, had discovered this by chance. She recounts story of her grandmother, who began making and selling Swarovski jewelry to Saks Fifth Avenue in the late 80s.

As a little girl, Lupton Reinhard spent hours obsessing over her grandmother’s great crystal collection, and this ‘shameless, child-like desire for sparkles’ remains to this day. The crystals finish almost every Lupton Reinhard painting in the original style she now refers to as ‘fantasy realism’. In her works, she engages with themes and objects from Judaism, the faith in which she was raised and of which she still practices steadfastly.

Lupton Reinhard’s debut solo exhibition Beshert: Beholden February 2022 at Rusha & Co. and was quickly followed by A House of Stars and Angels, a solo exhibition at the Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas. Her first solo show in New York City, Shekinah, Shiksas, And Other Nice Jewish Girls, opened in Spring of 2023 at Fredericks & Freiser. Her work can be found in the collection of ICA Miami and has been included in exhibitions at Loyal Gallery, Stockholm; Analog Diary, New York; Unit London; Bill Brady, Los Angeles; and Carl Kostyál, Stockholm.