Michael Henry HAYDEN

Profile

Born in 1981 in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, U.S.A. Graduated with a Master Degree in Fine Arts from University of Southern California in 2009. A visual artist based in Los Angeles. His works explore personal and cultural relationships to the natural environment. Hayden has presented solo exhibitions at Moskowitz Bayse and Acme Gallery, and two-person exhibitions at Del Vaz Projects, The Finley,and Left Field. His works are held in the collections of the LA County Museum of Art and the Hammer Museum. 

Recent exhibitions
2023 “Cloud Nine,” Madonna Inn / Left Field Gallery, San Luis Obispo, California
2021 “Reflexions,” Del Vaz Projects, Santa Monica
2021 “Waiting for the Canyon’s Echo,” Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles
2020 “Grammars of Creation,” Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles
2019 “The Nothing That Is,” Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, California

Other activity
2004 Residency - Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York

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*Michael Henry Hayden’s residency was made possible by an artist residency partnership with 18th Street Arts Center through the Call to Dream: The Sam Francis Fellowship and TOKAS.

About works

His recent work teases the boundaries between painting and sculpture to explore personal and cultural relationships to the natural world. Using rubber molds cast from natural plants and geology in his immediate environment, he creates building blocks for compositions that fuse dimensional forms with a painter’s vocabulary of color and illusionistic depth.