Angela Hennessy is an Oakland based artist and survivor of gun violence. She constructs sculptures and installations with everyday domestic labor—washing, wrapping, stitching, knotting, brushing, and braiding. Her work has been shown at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, Museum of the African Diaspora, Oakland Museum of California, and Pt. 2 Gallery, and is in the collections of the de Young Museum and the Crocker Art Museum. Her audio guides, meditations, and poems have been featured at the Wattis Institute, de Young Museum, and SOMArts Gallery. 

Hennessy holds an MFA from California College of the Arts where she teaches courses on contemporary narratives of death. For many years she served as a hospice volunteer and death doula working with families on home funerals, death vigils, and grief rituals. She trained with Final Passages, International End of Life Doula Association, and the Grief Recovery Institute.

Her work has been recognized by San Francisco Artadia, Svane Family Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation, and most recently, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Award. She is on the advisory board of Recompose Seattle and lectures nationally on aesthetic and social practices that mediate the boundary between the living and the dead.