Sharon Hayes

Born 1970 in Baltimore, MD
Lives and works in New York, NY

Education

2003 Art, Interdisciplinary Studio, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (MFA)
2000 Studio, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1992 Anthropology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, Magna cum laude (BA)
1991  Performance, Trinity/LaMama, Performing Arts Program, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions and Performances

2014
Fingernails on a blackboard, Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, New York, NY
Sharon Hayes: Loudspeakers and Other Forms of Listening, curated by Heather Anderson, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

2013 
Public Appearances, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany

2012
Sharon Hayes: There's so much I want to say to you, curated by Chrissie Iles, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Sharon Hayes: Habla, curated by Lynne Cooke, Museo Nacoinal Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Sharon Hayes, Tanya Leighton at Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
Sharon Hayes, The Frances Young Tang Teachung Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY

2011 
focus: Sharon Hayes, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
In The Near Future, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2009
Andrea Geyer | Sharon Hayes, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland; traveled to: Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden
Sharon Hayes: The Future is Unthinkable, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium
We The People, Context Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland

2008
In the Near Future, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland; Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany

2007
I march in the parade of liberty, but as long as I love you I'm not free, organized by Massimiliano Gioni, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY

2006
10 Minutes of Collective Activity, o.T.Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Luzern, Switzerland

2005
Everything Else Has Failed! Don’t You Think It’s Time for Love?, Art in General, New York, NY
Room Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA; VideoIn, Vancouver, Canada
LaRebeca, Bogotá, Columbia

2002
Parlour Projects, New York, NY
Cambio de Lugar_Change of Place_Ortswechsel (with Andrea Geyer), Platform & Galerie Paula Boettcher, Berlin, Germany; Signal, Malmö, Sweden

2001
Cambio de Lugar_Change of Place (with Andrea Geyer), P.S. 1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Queens, NY

2000
Cambio de Lugar_Change of Place/The Interpreter Project (with Andrea Geyer), La Panaderia, Mexico City, Mexico

1999
Living Room, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX

Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances

2014
Moderation(s): The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands (forthcoming)
Gip Friheten! Take Liberty!, Nasjonalmuseet Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway (forthcoming)
Liebe, curated by Barbara J. Scheuermann and Cathrin Langanke, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (forthcoming)
In the Near Future: The Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland

2013
global aCtIVISm, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Schizophonia, curated by Anna Colin and Sam Thorne, Centre d’art contemporain la synagogue de Delme, Paris, France
Révolte Logique, Part II, Marcelle Alix, Paris, France
NOT NOW! NOW!, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
More Love: Art, Politics and Sharing Since the 1990’s, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, 55thVenice Biennale, Venice, Italy
In Heart of the Country, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland

2012
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, curated by Laura Hoptman, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Performing Histories (1), Yoshiko and Akio Morita Gallery at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Catch Phrases and the Powers of Language, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
The Air We Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
9 Scripts from a Nation at War, curated by Sabine Breitwieser and Martin Hartung, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Americans in New York, 1, Michel Rein Gallery, Paris, France
Demonstrations. Making Normative Orders, curated by Fanti Baum, Britta Peters and Dr. Sabine Witt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent, curated by Yaelle Amir, Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, PA
Idea is the Object, curated by Pavan Segal and Tracy Parker, D'Amelio Gallery, New York, NY

2011
Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954-003064: A Public Reading, in conjunction with Perfoma 11, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Glee, curated by Cecilia Alemani, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Speech Matters, the Danish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Found in Translation, the Solomon F. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
The Other Tradition, curated by Elena Filipovic, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, Belgium

2010
To the Arts, Citizens!, curated by Isabel Braga and Óscar Faria, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
Vectors of the Possible, curated by Simon Sheikh, Basis voor Actuele Kunst – BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands
Publics and counterpublics, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo – CAAC, Sevilla, Spain
Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present, curated by Douglas Crimp and Lynne Cooke, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Greater New York, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
This story is not ready for its footnotes, curated by Camilla Pignatti Morano and Pelin Uran, Ex Elettrofonica, Rome, Italy
Invisible Publics, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
Queer Voice, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon, 4th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand (catalogue)
Early Years, curated by Sebastian Cichocki, Ana Janevski, Katarzyna Karwańska and Joanna Mytkowska, presented by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland; Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany
Whitney Biennial, curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
Fall Out, GI Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark (catalogue)
Monument to Transformation, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain (catalogue)

2009
100 Years (version 2), P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
Come in, friends, the house is yours!, curated by Anja Casser,  Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Ecstatic Resistance, organized by Emily Roysdon, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO; X Initiative, New York, NY
Alan Kaprow Yard, organized by Helen Molesworth, Hauser &Wirth, New York, NY
11th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey (catalogue)
The Monument of Transformation, City Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
Talk Show, curated by Will Holder with Richard Birkett and Jennifer Thatcher, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Playing the City, curated by Matthias Ulrich, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
How to do things with Words, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Saints and Sinner, the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Gallery and Lower Rose Gallery, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Audio, Video, Disco, curated by David Bussel, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland

2008
9 Scripts from a Nation at War, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Parsons The New School for Design in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, New York, NY
2 x [(2 x 20) + (2 x 2)] + 2 = X x (desperately) trying to figure out the world), curated by Konrad Bitterli, Part 1: Mai36 Galerie, Zurich; Part II: Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
Frieze Projects, curated by Neville Wakefield, London, England
Time Crevasse, Yokohoma Triennale 2008, Shinko Pier Exhibition Hall, Yokohama, Japan (catalogue)
The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
Democracy in America: The National Campaign, Creative Time in association with Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY and the Walker Art Center and the Unconvention, Minneapolis, MN
Not Quite How I Remember It, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Freeway Balconies, curated by Collier Schorr, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
No More Reality. Step 3: SHARED FOLDER, de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
9 Scripts from a Nation at War, Tate Modern, London, England
Intimacy, curated by Anne Pasternak, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp.002954-003064, A PublicReading, Tate Modern, London, England
Perplexed in Public, Lisson Gallery and LUX, London, England
Experimental Marathon Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavik, Iceland
Two or three things I know about her, curated by Helen Molesworth, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
On Procession, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
War Stories, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
voiceoverhead, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2007
25 Years Later: Welcome to Art in General, UBS Gallery, New York, NY
documenta 12 (collaborative project), Kassel, Germany
In the Eye of the Storm – Im Auge des Zyklons, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything, Elizabeth Foundation, New York, NY
Media Burn, Tate Modern, London, England
Exile of the Imaginary: Politics, Aesthetics, Love, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria

2006
Media Burn, Tate Modern, London, England
Altered, Stitched and Gathered, P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center, Queens, NY
Wieder und Wider: Performance Appropriated, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Considering the Institution, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
Knowing You/Knowing Me (collaboration with Andrea Geyer), Camera Austria, Graz, Austria; Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Cooling Out. On the Paradox of Feminism (collaboration with Andrea Geyer), Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland; Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork, Ireland; Kunstraum, Lüneburg, Germany
The F Word, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Was Wäre Wenn #4, JET, Berlin, Germany
When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York, NY

2005
In the Poem About Love You Don’t Write the Word Love, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland; traveled to: ARGOS centre for art and media and Musée du Cinéma, Brussels, Belgium; Artists Space, New York, NY; Midway Contemporary Arts, Minneapolis, MN; OVERGATEN—Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
I Beg Your Pardon, or the Reestablishing of Cordial Relations, Vera List Center for Arts and Politics, New York, NY
Patriot (with Andrea Geyer) Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
PERFORMA 05, New York, NY
Old News, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Identify! Studies on the Political Subject, New School for Social Research, New York, NY
e-flux video rental, 53 Ludlow Street, New York, NY; traveled to: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA; Centre Culturel Suisee, Paris, France, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigåo – Fundaçåo, Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Habeas Corpus, Third Forum on Public Art, Mexico City, Mexico
Imagine, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Republican Like Me, Parlour Projects, New York, NY
LTTR: Practice More Failure series, Art in General, New York, NY
Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac, Serbia and Montenegro
Bonn Biennia1 2004, Bonn, Germany
Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Side Effects, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

2003
GO!, Liquidación Total, Madrid, Spain
Repetition: Pride and Prejudice, curated by WHW, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
Sandwiched, Public Art Fund, New York, NY
Western: Terms of Use, Challotenborg Center for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Echo Sparks, Ars Electronica Museum, Linz, Austria
The Real Me, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
I am a Curator, Chisenhale Gallery, London, England
Charlottenborg Autumn Exhibition 2003, Kunsthal Charlottenborg,Copenhagen, Denmark
Former den Organisation, Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität Lüneberg, Germany; Hochshule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

2002
Secondary Sources, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
A Show to Show that a Show is Not Only a Show, The Project, Los Angeles, CA
Democracy When?, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Social Sectors, Kunstalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Organisationtional Form, curated by Roger M. Bürgel and Ruth Noak, Skuc Gallerija, Ljublijana, Slovenia

2001
Teil Von…?, Akt. 3, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
The Interpreter Project, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
RAIN Project, Fotofest, Houston, TX

2000
Open Studios, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY

1998
Keeping Track of the Joneses, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

Lectures, Conferences, Symposia, and Screenings

2014
ACTS - Festival for Performative Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark (forthcoming)
“Flying: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Kate Millett,” School of Arts, Birkbeck, University of London, London, England (forthcoming)
“WoWmen!” Kaai Theater, Brussels, Belgium (forthcoming)

2013
“NOT NOW! NOW!” Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria

2010
Eternal Tour festival: “From Abstraction to Activism,” Jerusalem and Ramallah, Palestine

2009
“Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used To Be,” co-programmed by Brooke O’Harra and Sharon Hayes), Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY
Artists on Artists Lecture Series: “Sharon Hayes on Merce Cunningham,” Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY, March 2, 2009

2008
“Nine Scripts from a Nation at War - In Conversation,” Conference with the 9 Scripts from a Nation at War artists Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander and David Thorne, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England, June 9, 2008
“Spheres of Interest,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, May 2, 2008
“Looking Back Now. Performance over Three Decades: 1960s-1980s,” Discussion between art historians Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Johanna Burton, and Barbara Clausen, Moderated by Sharon Hayes, The New School, New York, NY, April 24, 2008
“An Evening with Sharon Hayes: On Politics and Desire,” Modern Mondays, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, February 25, 2008
“An Evening of Images and Ideas,” the New Museum, New York, NY, January 10, 2008

2007
Roundtable Discussion: Feminist Future Series, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, November 2007
Performance Studies International #13, New York University, New York, NY, Conversation with art historian Janet Kaplan, November 2007
Symposium: “Now is Winter,” Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, October 2007

2006 
Symposium: “Re-doing Performance,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2006

2005 
Panel Discussion: “Art, Law and the Patriot Act,” University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 2005

2003
Presentation: “‘After/Before: A Voiceover;” Symposium: “Public Affairs: Performance as Political Action,” Museum Modern Kunst, Vienna, Austria, 2003
Film/Video Program: “RECORD,” Gallery 2102, Los Angeles, CA, August 2003
Film Program: “What Lies Between: The Autobiographical Impulse in Film and Video, Introduction to two Jill Godmilow films: ‘I try not to be my own widow: The Performative Copy’,” University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2003

2002
Feminisms Conference, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, Sweden, 2002
Paper: “Cambior de Lugar_Change of Place_Ortswechsel,” Camp TT, 2002, CalArts, Valencia, CA
Presentation Symposium: “Radical Time,” University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2002

2001
Symposium: “Sites of Collective Memory,” Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY, 2001

2000
Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 2000 National Conference, Washington, 2000
Paper: “Lesbian Living Rooms: Performing Site, Site Performing,” 2000

1999
Paper: “Begin at the Beginning: Hi, I’m Sharon Hayes,” Rhode Island School of Design, Queer Arts Festival, Providence, RI, 1999

Grants, Fellowships, Residencies and Awards

2013 The Alpert Award in the Arts
2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, Art Matters Grant
2006 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swing Space
2005 Smack Mellon Artist Residency Program
New York State Council of the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
2004 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 120 Broadway Workspace, artist residency
Banff Centre for the Arts, IntraNation residency
2003 International Arts Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), artist residency
2001-03 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education
2001 Charles Speroni Memorial Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles
Edward J. and Alice Mae Smith Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles
2000 D’Arcy Hayman Award, University of California, Los Angeles
1999 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, MacDowell Colony Fellow
1994 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

Public Collections

Colección Isabel y Agustin Coppel, Mexico City, Mexico
Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, Paris, France
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Tate, London, England
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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