LINDSAY HAND

Lindsay Hand

Lindsay Hand is a research-driven artist whose oil paintings explore historical trauma, power structures, and the fragile alliances that shape collective memory. Over the past two years, her work has deepened through focused inquiry into labor history, organized crime, and forensic visual analysis—culminating in a series of exhibits that blend archival research with narrative portraiture.

Primarily self-taught, Hand has exhibited her work in galleries, history museums, and cultural centers across the U.S., including the Irish Embassy and the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago. Her current bodies of work include a visual dossier series on early 20th-century mob alliances and an ongoing Jane Doe project that incorporates investigative field research and forensic-inspired techniques to honor unidentified victims.

Her painting style combines spectral realism and historical chiaroscuro with forensic narrative painting, ethical realism, and archival portraiture—creating emotionally charged works that evoke memory, tension, and unresolved histories. This hybrid approach positions her as a distinctive voice in ethically grounded, research-based art.