Sharon Hayes

Sharon Hayes was born in 1970 in Baltimore, USA, and currently lives and works in New York. Her art practice engages video, performance and installation in an ongoing investigation into various intersections between history, politics and speech. She employs conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from artistic and academic practices such as theater, film, anthropology, linguistics and journalism, to explore new representational strategies that examine and interrogate the allegorical character of the present political moment.

Hayes’ selected solo exhibitions include In My Little Corner of the World, Anyone Would Love You, The Common Guild, Glasgow (2016) and Studio Voltaire, London (2016); Black Box: Sharon Hayes, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (2015); Sharon Hayes: Loudspeakers and Other Forms of Listening, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa (2014); There’s so much I want to say to you, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012); Habla, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2012); Elevator Music 20: Sharon Hayes, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY (2012); 9 Scripts from a Nation at War (collaboration), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012); focus: Sharon Hayes, The Art Institute of Chicago (2011); In the near future, Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery (2011), and others.