Stephen Hayes
These works are made in response to the changing landscape of America. The works began in one mode and have evolved into another. The notion of inversion is used as a metaphor for uncertainty and the abrogation of known civility.
Bouleversé #1, digital photograph, 30" x 30", 2021
Bouleversé #2, digital photograph, 30" x 30", 2021
Bouleversé #3, digital photograph, 30" x 30", 2021
Bouleversé #4, digital photograph, 30" x 30", 2021
Bouleversé #5, digital photograph, 30" x 30", 2021
Bouleversé #6, digital photograph, 30" x 30", 2021
Bouleversé #7, digital photograph, 30" x 30", 2021
Bouleversé #8, digital photograph, 30" x 30", 2021
Bouleversé #9, digital photograph, 30" x 30", 2021
Stephen Hayes has explored themes of the land, loss, sexuality, identity, beauty and violence in a career now in its fourth decade.
Hayes has held over thirty-five solo exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad and nearly seventy group shows curated by a broad diversity of curatorial voices that include: Kristy Edmunds, Cassandra Coblentz, Stuart Horodner, Linda Tesner, Bruce Guenther, Terri Hopkins, John Weber, Peter Frank, Willem de Looper and Mary Jane Jacob. Exhibitions of his paintings, prints and drawings have been reviewed in Art Forum, Art in America, Artweek and Oregon Arts Watch among others.
Works by Stephen Hayes are housed in the collections of the New York Public Library, the Frans Masereel Centrum voor Grafiek in Kasterlee, Belgium, The Portland Art Museum, The Hallie Ford Museum, The Gates Foundation, Lewis and Clark College and more than one hundred private and public collections in the United States, Europe and Japan. Support for his work has come in the form of fellowships, grants and residencies from The John S. Guggenheim Foundation, The Ford Family Foundation, The Ucross Foundation, WESTAF and the NEA, The Oregon Arts Commission and the Frans Masereel Center.
Hayes is a 2021 United States Artist Award nominee.
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