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    • CONTACT
    • Statement + Bio
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  • PAINTINGS
    • Series
    • ABSTRACT LANDSCAPE
  • PROJECTS
    • Stand In Series
    • END PAPERS
    • Archive
  • BOOKS
    • Field Guide to Ambiguity
    • 2021 Edition: Contemporary Prayers
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      • Elements Curriculum
    • Help me [ ], do the thing.
    • Contemporary Prayers (Original)
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​BOOKS BY HANNAH BURR


Field Guide to Ambiguity  (Fifth Avenue Press)    2024 

Contemporary Prayers to Whatever Works (Simon & Schuster).    2021
 
the Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere (Fifth Avenue Press).     2019

Help me [   ], do the thing.     2016

Contemporary Prayers to * [whatever works]      2013

Field Guide to Ambiguity

This book, Hannah Burr's fifth and newest book project,  arrived in January 2024. Copies are available here.

Field Guide to Ambiguity is a book for learning to feel situated when you don’t know where you are. It’s a way to pause and orient when you are in life’s washing machine, without claiming to have your answers for you. It’s part journaling tool, part oracle and part artists' book, full of open-ended questions to help you relate freshly to what’s immediately around you.

Burr pairs the structure of a scientific field guide with dynamic reflection and artwork to explore our human relationship to uncertainty—from earth-shaking life events to the intimate, daily mystery of opening your eyes in the morning.

“It’s a tender situation, this openness, and you’re it.”
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“In the end, you yourself are ambiguity’s only bearings. You are the orienting principle of any given situation.“

Publisher: Fifth Avenue Press
Length:200 Pages
8 x 5"
ISBN: 978-1-956697-25-4

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The 2021 volume of Contemporary Prayers

The third in her prayer book series, this book is 208 pages of 80 new, prayers to visual abstraction in brush and ink, within each prayer. Published by Simon & Schuster. 

This book expands themes of the first two non-religious prayer books by Burr, and responds to our wild and disorienting times with chapters to navigate uncertainty and confusion with presence. 

Publisher: Simon & Schuster's Tiller Press (2021)
Length: 208 pages
​6.5 x 5.5”
ISBN13: 9781982154677

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Contemporary Prayers to * [whatever works] 2013 edition

 Burr's first book from 2013 is an artist's book of blunt prayers to nothing-in-particular. Burr uses these prayers to relax and enjoy seismic shifts in her life. They’ve helped her remember, as she forgets repeatedly, that there are larger forces at work, gravity for example, of which she is a part. These prayers help her accept and tap into whatever that is. Purchase this book.

ISBN: 978-0-9889166-0-9
6.5 x 5.5”
128 PAGES
$20
get the original first edition

Help me  [  ], do the thing.



 Burr’s second book expands audiences from the first, bridging generation, gender and religious belief. Prized by artists, designers, philosophers, kids, teens, seekers, secularists, and color savorers.
Cover design by ICA Boston’s Creative Director, L.Simon Hayes.
Focus on creative boldness through wordless visual petitions. Purchase  through here. 
Arrived 2016.

ISBN: 978-0-9889166-1-6
6.5 x 5.5”
128 PAGES
$20
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​The Elements: a love letter to
​all things everywhere

​An artist’s book about the elements of the periodic table and our inseparability from  everything, free of scientific jargon and the expert lens. 

This book is an extensive register of objects  in which each element can be found, and a playful, accessible introduction to the self in all things through images and words.  Each of us, our stuff, our people, places and things, are born in stars, burning, exploding, and colliding. So far, this has been called science and has been shared with us in expert jargon as if we were all going to be chemists one day.

Artist Hannah Burr has written and designed this book for everyone to have access to and a direct experience of the chemical elements. Purchase Elements here. 
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Publisher: Fifth Avenue Press (2019)
Length: 428 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9889166-1-6
​8.5 x 6.5”
​Price: $36
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​PRAISE FOR 'ELEMENTS'
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“Gorgeous, thought provoking, practical, mystical”          –  J. Margo

“The Elements: a love letter to all things everywhere helps humanize science, at a deep level, and at a really important time”                                                                                                             –  K. Berger

“Hannah Burr has mapped out, in color and language, the appearance of the elements in the mundane stuff of our lives. Enjoy this study of interconnectedness.“
                                                                                                         – L. Thomas

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SHOP FOR BOOKS, RELATED PRINTS AND POSTERS
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P R A I S E    F O R   B U R R ' S    B O O K S :
Very sweet, very open, very alive, honest, real. Thank you for holding space for expression of human experience in relation to ^*)(“””
“I go through periods of carrying Whatever Works around in my jacket pocket as if it were an illuminated manuscript and
I lived in Brugges in the 1490s.”
        —Darin Murphy, Director
           School of the Museum of Fine Arts Library
"I love the second one as much as the first!"
"A book about reframing, asking for help, remembering, and letting go."
"I've been turning to your books a lot lately for words of whatever I need at that moment. So grateful they are in the world."
"Every prayer is completely appropriate for me right now.  Honestly that makes me laugh and feel a little less alone and lost."

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DIA Beacon NY
ICA Boston MA
MOMA PS1 NY
CAC Cincinnati OH
Peabody Essex Museum MA
Portland Museum ME
Holter Museum MO
Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA
MOMA Manhattan NY
SFMOMA CA
Carnegie/Warhol Museum OA
Hirshhorn Museum DC
Portland Art museum, OR
LA County Museum of Art CA
Museum of Contemporary Art LA CA
San Diego Museum of Art CA
Wexner Center for the Arts OH
Des Moines Art Center IA
Columbus Museum of Art OH
Albright Knox NY
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN
​Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Wadsworth Atheneaum Museum of Art CT
Nelson Atkins Museum MO
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art AZ
Crystal Bridges Museum of Contemp Art AR
UC Berkely Berkeley Art Museum CA
Norton Simon Museum of Art Pasadena CA
Salchicha MO
Signal Return Press MI
​Ann Arbor Art Center MI
POST, MI
San Diego Museum of Art CA
New Britain Museum of Am art CT
​Delaware Center for the Contemporary Art MD
Orlando Museum of  FL
Rollins College Cornell Fine Arts Museum FL
Clyfford Still Museum, Denver CO
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Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Milwaukee Public  Museum
Provincetown Art Association and Museum MA
Worcester Art Museum MA
Broad Art Museum, MI
Grand Rapids Art Museum MI
Minnestoa Center for Book Arts MN
Saint Louis Art Museum MO
Nevada MOA NV
Brooklyn Museum NY
New Temporary Contemporary  PA
Mattress Factory PA
Frist Center for the Visual Arts TN
CAM Houston TX
Menil Collection TX
San Antonio Museum of Art TX
Madison Museum of WI
Winings Gallery ME
555 Gallery MA
Somes Sound Gallery ME
Lacoste Gallery MA
Esalen Institute CA
Gardner Museum MA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA
Gallery B, ME
Janice Charach Gallery, MI
​Blue Hill Books, ME
​Saugatuck Center for the Arts MI
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University of Michigan Library MI
Tisch Library of Tufts University MA
Brown University Rockefeller Library RI
School of the Museum of Fine Arts 
Library MA
MacDowell Colony Library NH
Peterborough Town Library NH
Blue Hill Public Library ME
Boston Public Library MA
​Brookline Public Library MA
The Floating Library MN
Room Project, Detroit MI
​Cambridge Insight Meditation Center MA
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