Born May 1970. Lives and works in New York City
Education
University of California, Los Angeles, MFA, 2003
Whitney Independent Study Program, New York City, 1999-2000
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, BA, 1992
Trinity/LaMama Performing Arts Program, New York, NY, 1991
Solo Exhibition
2006
o.T.Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Luzern, Switzerland
2005
Art-in-General, New York, NY
Room Gallery, University of California, Irvine
VideoIn, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
2004
La Rebeca, Bogotá, Colombia
2003
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Parlour Projects, Williamsburg, NYC
‘Cambio de Lugar_Change of Place_Ortswechsel’ (with Andrea Geyer), Plattform, Galerie Paula Boettcher, Berlin, Germany
‘Cambio de Lugar_Change of Place_Ortswechsel’ (with Andrea Geyer), Signal, Malmö, Sweden
2001
’Cambio de Lugar_Change of Place’(with Andrea Geyer), P.S. 1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Queens, NY 1999
’Living Room’, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Exile of the Imaginary: Politics, Aesthetics, Love, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2006
Wieder und Wider: Performance Appropriated, MuMok, Vienna, Austria
Considering the Institution, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
Knowing You/Knowing Me, Camera Austria, Graz (collaboration with Andrea Geyer)
Cooling Out. On the Paradox of Feminism, Baselland, Switzerland; Kunstraum, Lüneburg (collaboration with Andrea Geyer)
In the Poem About Love You Don’t Write the Word Love, Artists Space, New York, NY
The F Word, The 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
I Beg Your Pardon, or the Reestablishing of Cordial Relations, Vera List Center for Arts and Politics, New York, NY
Patriot, Contemporary Centre for Art, Baltimore, MD (with Andrea Geyer)
2004
Habeas Corpus, Third Forum on Public Art, Mexico D.F.
Imagine, Deitch Projects
Republican Like Me, Parlour Projects, New York, NY
LTTR: Practice More Failure series, Art in General, New York, NY
Bonn Biennial, Bonn, Germany
Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac, Serbia and Montenegro
Side Effects, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Shoot Yourself, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
2003
‘Repetition: Pride& Prejudice’, curated by WHW, Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
‘GO!,’ Liquidación Total, Madrid, Spain
‘Mix, 17, Resistance is Fertile’, New York, NY
‘Sandwiched’, Public Art Fund, New York, NY
‘Western: Terms of Use’, Challotenborg Center for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
‘MFA Thesis Exhibition’, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
‘Echo Sparks’, projection exhibition, Vienna, Austria
‘The Real Me’, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
2002
‘Communique,’ Secondary Sources, Front Room Gallery, Williamsburg, NYC
‘Symbionese Liberation Army Screeds #13, 16, 20 & 29’, The Project, Los Angeles, CA
‘The Communicator Series’, Democracy When, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
‘Cambio de Lugar_Change of Place_Ortswechsel’ (with Andrea Geyer), Social Sectors,Kunstalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
2001
‘The Interpreter Project, Kunstalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
‘The Interpreter Project’, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2000
’Cambio de Lugar_Change of Place’ (with Andrea Geyer), La Panaderia, Mexico D.F., Mexico
‘The Interpreter Project’, Whitney Independent Study Project, New York, NY
1999
Five29NinetyNine: Symposium and Exhibition, New York, NY
1998
’Keeping Up With The Jones’, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
SELECTED SCREENINGS AND PERFORMANCES
2006
Low-Intensity Conflict, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Artists Cinema, Frieze Art Fair, London, U.K.
2005
In the Near Future, PERFORMA05, New York, NY
In the Poem about Love you Don’t Write the Word Love, Argos, Belgium, Brussel
2004
Spoken Word DJ, LTTR: Practice More Failure, Art-in-General, New York, NY
My Fellow Americans, 1981-88, Parlour Projects, Williamsburg, NY
Shoot Yourself, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
2003
Mix 17: Resistance is Fertile, New York, NY
2001
(Re)collecting Eleanor Roosevelt, Kunstalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
2000
The Interpreter Project, La Panaderia, Mexico D.F., Mexico
The Interpreter Project, Sites of Collective Memory, symposium, New York, NY
The Lesbian, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
1999
The Lesbian, The Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca, NY
The Lesbian, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
Five29NinetyNine: Symposium and Exhibition, New York, NY
1998
The Lesbian, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY
Keeping Up With The Jones, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1997
Lesbian Love Tour, 45 living rooms across country, USA
Joined at the Hip, Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York, NY
FITS, Dixon Place, New York, NY
1996
Joined at the Hip, P.S. 122, New York, NY
How to Make Lemonade: A Demonstration Speech, P.S. 122, New York, NY
How to Make Lemonade: A Demonstration Speech, H.E.R.E., New York, NY
1995
Rest Position, P.S. 122, New York, NY
Rest Position, W.O.W. Café, New York, NY
Stalling, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Stalling, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY
Stalling, Brown University, Providence, RI
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Openings, “Julia Bryan-Wilson on Sharon Hayes,” ARTFORUM, May 2006, 278-9.
Johannah Burton, “Sharon Hayes,” ARTFORUM, March 2006, 294.
Cathy Lebowitz, “You Had to be There,” Art in America, February 2006, 51.
Shana Lukter, “Ghost of the Public,” X-TRA, Volume 8, Issue 1, 2005.
Marta Schwendener, “Sharon Hayes, 10 Minutes of Collective Activity,” TimeOut NY, August, 2003.
Benjamin Young, “In Translation,” Social Sectors catalogue, March 2002.
Mike Fleming, “Baffling Search for ‘The Lesbian,’” Houston Voice, June 11, 1999, 20.
Anthony Connolly, “Inside the Lesbian Living Room,” Houston Voice, June 4, 1999, 13.
Rachel Mattson, “Natural Herstory,” The Village Voice, November 24, 1998
Laurie Stone, “Sharon Hayes,” Out Magazine, November, 1998.
Wendy Weiner, “Don’t Fence Her In,” American Theater Magazine, March, 1998.
Joseph Carman, “The Grand Tour,” New York Blade News, November 6, 1998, Vol. 2, No. 4.
Julia M. Klein, “’’Lesbians in their Natural Habitat,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 10, 1998, E1.
Kevin Riordan, “Performance Artist explores many faces of lesbian life,” Courier-Post, September 8, 1998, Living Section.
Suki John, “Shorthand,” The Village Voice, November 7, 1995.
Henry Baumgartner, “Visited on Me/Stalling,” Dancing on a Line, October 24, 1995.
Alice Naude, “Poetry and Motion,” Manhattan Spirit, Dance Pick, October 26, 1995.
PUBLICATIONS
“Familiarity, irony, ambivalence: an email conversation between Sharon Hayes and Yvonne Rainer,” Work the Room: A Handbook of Performance Strategies, oe and b_books: critical readers in visual cultures #8, ed. Ulrike Müller, Berlin, 2006.
“Conversation #3: December 14, 2005,” Who Cares, Creative Time Books, 2006, 97-143.
“An Eye for an Ear and Vice Versa,” catalogue for Katya Sander, The Most Complicated Machines Are Made of Words, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria.
Now Entering Brooklyn, Public Art Fund, catalogue for Sandwiched, 2003.
First Person: Performance from Mexico D.F. and Los Angeles, DVD, 2003.
“Something Like a Bridge: A Conversation on the Occasion of “Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art in the 1970s,” Conversation between Leslie Dick, Sharon Hayes, Mary Kellly and Kerry Tribe, X-tra, Volume 5, Number 3, 2003.
“notes on : Cambio de Lugar_Change of Place_Ortswechsel,” LeTTeR, Vol. 1, November 2002.
“Interpretations of the National Park Service,” Cabinet Magazine, Issue 7, Summer 2002.
“Problematic One,” Democracy When catalogue, May 2002, 15.
“Unstable Realities: The Work of Lam Kin-Hung and Lana Lin,” The Wight Biennial catalogue, October 2002.
GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / RESIDENCIES
2006-7
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swing Space
2005
Smack Mellon Artist Residency Program NYSCA Individual Artist Grant
2004
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 120 Broadway Workspace, residency
Banff Centre for the Arts, IntraNation residency
2003
International Arts Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS), artist residency
2001-2003
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education
2001
Charles Speroni Memorial Scholarship, UCLA
Edward J. and Alice Mae Smith Scholarship, UCLA
2000
D’Arcy Hayman Award, UCLA
1999
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
MacDowell Colony Fellow
1994
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, artist residency
