About Aedan Hanley

Aedan Hanley is a contemporary painter based in Baja California, Mexico. His practice moves between psychologically charged figuration and registered abstraction, using saturated color, layered marks, text, and visible revision to explore the friction between what people present and what slips through.

Hanley first studied fine art and design at the University of Wisconsin before building a career in education and psychology, ultimately earning a doctorate in psychology. He returned to full-time studio practice following retirement in 2023. That background informs his interest in behavior, perception, memory, defense, and contradiction—but the paintings remain visual rather than clinical inquiries.

Across bodies of work including SE Nos Nota, Public Behaviors, and In The Margins, figures perform, defend, withdraw, posture, and miscommunicate while abstract systems shift, overlap, and slip out of alignment. The work is intended to register immediately from across a room, then become more complicated the longer a viewer stays with it.