Hayley Barker

Born in Oregon, 1973 

Lives in Los Angeles


Education:

MA & MFA Intermedia, University of Iowa, IA, 2001

BA Fine Arts, University of Oregon, OR, 1996


Selected Solo Exhibitions:

6/2024: "The Ringing Stone," Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

6/2023: "Last Morning at El Centro," CVG Foundation, Beijing

2/2023: “Laguna Castle,” Night Gallery, Los Angeles

7/2022: "BOZO HOUSE," BozoMag, Los Angeles

4/2022: “The Spider: Hayley Barker & Shari Urquhart,” SHRINE, New York City

9/2021: “Incense,” The Armory Art Fair with SHRINE, New York City

10/2020: "The Grass is Blue,” SHRINE, New York City

10/2019: “LATE BLOOMER” BozoMag, Los Angeles


Selected Group Exhibitions:

10/2025: "All Nature Has a Feeling," Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen

2/2025: "Wings of a Butterfly," Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

5/2024: "Towards the Celestial: ICA Miami's Collection at 10 years," Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

5/2024: "Afterglow: A Collaboration with Night Gallery," Acquavella Gallery, Palm Beach

3/2024: "Connections: Wingate Studio at David Krut Projects," New York

1/2024 "Arcadia and Elsewhere," James Cohan, New York

7/2023: "PUBLIC PRIVATE," Pond Society, Shanghai

6/2023: "PRESENT ’23: Building the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art," Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio

2/2023: “Death of the Outsider,” SHRINE, Los Angeles

4/2022: “Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes,” Acquavella, New York City

1/2022: “Shrubs,” Night Gallery, Los Angeles

5/2021: “36 Paintings,” Harper’s, East Hampton, NY

11/2020: “Eartha,” Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR

5/2020: “New Beginnings...,” Nicodim, Los Angeles 3/2020: “Connections,” SHRINE, New York

7/2019: “Summer Formal,” La Loma Projects, Los Angeles


Fellowships/Awards/Residencies:

2024: Courances, France

2021: Steep Rock Artist Residency, Washington, CT 

2018: Gas, Residency, Los Angeles, CA

2013: Caldera Artist in Residence


Selected Reviews/Features:

8/2024: “Edinburgh Art Festival Review,” Jonathan Jones, The Guardian

8/2024: “Edinburgh Art Festival Review 2024,” Samuel Reilly, The Telegraph

8/2024: “Banksy’s monkeys are charming - we need more feel-good art,” Laura Freeman, The Times

8/2024: “Edinburgh Art Festival 2024 Review,” Laura Cumming, The Observer

7/2024: “The Art Diary July 2024,” Rev Jonathan Evans, Artlyst

6/2024: “Hayley Barker Reflects on Ritual, Nature and The Moon,” Rory Mitchell, Ocula Magazine

10/2023: “Hayley Barker’s Secret Garden,” The Chinese New York Times

9/2023: “Los Angeles artist Hayley Barker’s Lush, Transfixing Landscapes are Autobiographical Tributes to Nature,” Jo Lawson-Tancred, ArtNet News

9/2023: “Artists at Work: Hayley Barker,” Sóla Saar Agustsson, East of Borneo

6/2023: "Hayley Barker," Revue Eclipse

2/2023: “A Brush with the Californian Sublime,” Jennifer Remenchik, Hyperallergic

2/2023: “Hayley Barker Takes Us Back to The ‘Laguna Castle,’” Gwynn Vitello, Juxtapoz Magazine

2/2023: “New Programme Matches Artists with Los Angeles Communities for Residencies,” Lyndsay Knecht, The Art Newspaper

2/2023: “Hayley Barker’s Visions of Nature,” Michael Slenske, W Magazine

9/2022: “Full of Life: Hayley Barker,” Paul Maziar, Bomb Magazine

4/2022: “The Spider: Shari Urquhart and Hayley Barker at Shrine,” Juxtapoz

2/2021: Openings: Hayley Barker, Barry Schwabsky, Artforum (Print) 12/7/2020: “The Allure of Interconnection,” Lindsay Costello, Oregon ArtsWatch

11/30/2020: “Hayley Barker’s Landscapes Embody A Feminine, Earth-Based Spirituality,” Brienne Walsh, Forbes 

8/2020: “Turning to Art for Spiritual Sustenance,” Jennifer Remenchik, Hyperallergic

5/2020: “Women in Repose: Hayley Barker; Radioactive Paintings,” Julie Schulte, Artillery

11/2019: “Hayley Barker’s LATE BLOOMER: Love Everything That Flows,” Paul Maziar, LA Weekly

11/2019: KCRW Art Insider, Feature, Lyndsay Preston Zappas, KCRW 

9/2019: Review of “Summer Formal” at La Loma Projects,” Lorraine Heitzman, Art and Cake 

3/2019: “In SoCal, Artists Foster Roving, Alternative Spaces in Face of Change,” Jennifer Remenchik, Hyperallergic

7/2/18: "take care," Artforum Critics Pick, Arshy Azizi, Artforum 

4/17/18: " AirTight Garage." David Pagel, LA Times

4/2018: “The Divine Joke,” Exhibition Essay, Barry Schwabsky, Anita Rogers Gallery, New York

8/16/2017: “Goddess Ghosts,” Catherine Wagley, LA Weekly

2015: “Artists Make Good Theologians,” Sarah Sentilles, Harvard Divinity Bulletin

5/12/2014: "Apparition Hill" Review, John Motley, The Oregonian

5/11/2014: Visual Art Source Editorial Feature: Apparition Hill", Richard Speer, Visual Art Source

4/28/2014: "The Longing to See: Barker’s 'Apparition Hill'", Sarah Sentilles, Oregon ArtsWatch

10/2011: Review of “Cathedrals,” Sue Taylor, Art in America


Selected Bibliography:

8/2024: "The Side Woo," Podcast Interview with Thibault

2/2024: "Altar," Published by Shrine

9/2023: "Laguna Castle," Published by Night Gallery

8/2023: "Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing," Acquavella Gallery

11/2022: “Mutant Musings on time, magic, animism, transitional moments, and more with Hayley Barker,” Edgar Fabián Frías

3/2020: Episode 84: Akina Cox & Hayley Barker, The People podcast


Collections:

Brooklyn Museum, New York

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

CVG Foundation, Beijing

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Museo Inimá de Paula, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

New York Public Library Collection

Olivia Foundation, Mexico City

Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa

The Warehouse Collection, Atlanta, Georgia

Yageo Foundation, Taiwan

1% for the Arts, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon