Sharon Hayes, Everything Else Has Failed! Don’t You Think It’s Time For Love?, 2007, documentation of performance, United Bank of Switzerland, New York, courtesy the artist & Tanya Leighton Gallery; photo Andrea Geyer
Sharon Hayes, In the Near Future, London, 2008, multiple-slide-projection installation, 3 actions, 3 projections, 243 slides, projection dimensions variable, courtesy the artist & Tanya Leighton Gallery
Sharon Hayes has been appointed to the standing faculty of the Department of Fine Arts, where she will teach both undergraduate and graduate studio courses and seminars. She is a highly accomplished video, performance and installation artist whose work examines the intersection of history, politics and speech, with a focus on the language of 20th-century protest groups. She was formerly associate professor at the Cooper Union, where she taught since 2008.
Hayes’ work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Her projects have been in major international exhibitions and at Penn’s ICA (2010). She has received extensive reviews in both public media and respected journals; numerous monographs of her work in the context of contemporary art have been published. Hayes has also received three of the most prestigious awards in her field: The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Anonymous Was A Woman Award, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, and the Guggenheim Fellowship.
Hayes is teaching Graduate Studio in both Fall and Spring semesters, and in the spring will teach Video 1 and a new studio course on performance.
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