Hannah Bureau studied at Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Bard College, Rhode Island School of Design, and Massachusetts College of Art. She is a visiting critic for illustration at Rhode Island School of Design and has also taught at Boston Architectural College and Art Institute of Boston. Bureau has participated in exhibitions at venues throughout the Northeast. She is represented by Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont, Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and gWatson Gallery in Stonington.