Contemporary Multidisciplinary Artist & Creator of Hawa Cat

Eve Hennessa
Contact: ehennessa@gmail.com

Eve Hennessa is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, performance, installation, digital media, writing, and creative entrepreneurship.

She works across physical and digital worlds, bringing deep artistic integrity to large-scale paintings, immersive installations, performance, NFT art, and emerging technologies. Her practice also includes dance, writing, and education around crypto, blockchain, and digital art.

Eve is the creator of Hawa Cat — her signature art character living at the intersection of fine art, collectible design, and contemporary culture. Through Hawa Cat and her broader studio practice, she creates museum-quality works, limited editions, custom portraits, digital collectibles, and expanding art universes for collectors, interior designers, and art lovers worldwide.

Education

Master’s in Fine Art
UNAM — Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Academia de San Carlos, Mexico City
Created immersive walk-in wood sculptures.

BFA
University of Southern Maine

Art Students League of New York

Selected Highlights & Press

Solo & One-Woman Exhibitions

Parish Gallery, Washington, DC
2004 solo exhibition: For Now We See Through a Glass Darkly
Smithsonian Archives of American Art:
https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/parish-gallery-records-17390

Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC

Art Registry, Washington, DC

Carole Jones Gallery, Chicago
1996

Public Art, Installations & Performances

Pink Line Project, Washington, DC
DCist Arts Agenda:
https://dcist.com/story/09/04/23/arts-agenda-93/

Sandy Spring Museum, Maryland

Museo de la Plástica Mexicana, Mexico City

Salisbury University Art Galleries
Here/Not Here exhibition, 2020
Site-specific performance and artist talk:
https://www.salisbury.edu/news/article/2020-8-21-Artist-Eve-Hennessa-Performs-in-HereNot-Here-Exhibition-11952

Notable Group Exhibitions & Press Mentions

Katzen Arts Center, Havana Biennial

Prism V: Facing Fear in the 21st Century
c.d. Edwards Studio
Featured artist Q&A:
https://www.eastcityart.com/profiles/east-city-art-profiles-qa-six-artists-prism-v-facing-fear-21st-century/

Washington Post review:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/in-the-galleries-drawing-as-meditation/2017/10/19/4b8500ba-b297-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html

ARTINA 2017: Art in Nature
Sandy Spring Museum
“Color Wheel” installation reviewed in The Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/museums/artina-2017-outdoor-sculpture-thats-about-the-outdoors/2017/09/06/1397ea40-8e67-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37_story.html

ARTINA 2016: Art in Nature
Sandy Spring Museum
Performed opening ceremony, Medicine Wheel:
https://washingtonsculptors.org/2016/06/11/artina-2016-art-in-nature/

Sculpture NOW 2016: Cartes Blanches
https://www.eastcityart.com/openings-and-events/washington-sculptors-group-presents-sculpture-now-2016-cartes-blanches-group-exhibition/

Sculpture REMIX 2017: Craft / Technology / Art
https://www.eastcityart.com/openings-and-events/washington-sculptors-group-glen-echo-park-partnership-present-sculpture-remix-2017-crafttechnologyart-group-exhibition/

Otis Street Arts guest artist critique
2016

Washington Sculptors Group Salon at Eve Hennessa’s studio
2017
https://washingtonsculptors.org/wp-content/uploads/newsletters/wsg_2017_no3_fall_web_correction.pdf

Corporate Art Collections

Amazon
Humana
Hallmark
Insight Property Group
CSC Mouser Electronic
SCPM West Seattle PCC
AstraZeneca, Bethesda
VillageMD Heights 2.0
Goldman Sachs
Google

Representation

ArtLifting Collection
https://www.artlifting.com/collections/eve-hennessa

Washington Sculptors Group Artist Profile
https://washingtonsculptors.org/2023/10/10/eve-hennessa/

Online Presence

Artist Portfolio
https://evehennessa.com/

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/nfteve_h/

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/NFTeve/

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nft-eve-

YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp9TE5V4MNVql14_f026FHw

Speaking & Social Media

Eve Hennessa shares art-creation content across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, giving audiences a closer look at her studio process, the Hawa Cat universe, and her multidisciplinary practice.

She is also available for talks on NFTs, blockchain in the arts, metaverse galleries, and the development of cross-disciplinary art projects.

Hawa Cat has been collected by people around the world. A Saudi Arabian princess owns one of my Hawa NFTs, and Hawa Cat has appeared on Times Square billboards twice. The work has also been shown several times in Miami during Art Basel, and exhibited in New York City and internationally.