Hannah Longbottom Estrada is a queer and biracial artist originally from Los Angeles County, California. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts and Emergency Health Services from The George Washington University—a combination that reflects her interdisciplinary interests in visual storytelling and wellbeing. Her creative and professional work draws from both the medical and cultural heritage sectors, shaping a nuanced understanding of memory and identity.

Hannah recently worked as a conservation intern at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, where she supported the preservation of indigenous cultural materials. This work—grounded in ethics, sensitivity, and cross-cultural understanding—further informs her exploration of cultural inheritance and the impact of erasure across generations.

Working primarily in oil painting and printmaking, Hannah’s practice investigates the biopsychosocial effects of perpetual systemic harm. Her art is rooted in the complexities of diasporic identity, drawing from her Central American heritage and her family’s disconnect from their indigenous lineage. Through personal inquiry, she explores what it means to seek belonging without direct access to ancestral memory and examines the afterlives of colonialism. Her work reflects a broader interest in how histories translate through health, and how reconnecting with lost or obscured cultural threads can serve as both resistance and restoration.