BIOGRAPHY

Born: Baltimore, Maryland 1970
Resides: Brooklyn, New York
Education: University of California, Los Angeles (M.F.A., 2003);
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (1999–2000);
Bowdoin College (B.A., 1992)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007
New Museum, New York.

2005
Art in General, New York.
Room Gallery, University of California, Irvine.

2004
Espacio La Rebeca, Bogotá.

2003
“10 Minutes of Collective Activity,” Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. Traveled.

2002
Parlour Projects, Brooklyn.

2000
“Cambio de Lugar/Change of Place” (with Andrea Geyer)/The Interpreter Project, La Panadería, Mexico
City. Traveled.

1999
DiverseWorks Art Space, Houston.

Selected Group Exhibitions, Performances, and Screenings

2007
“Documenta 12” (collaborative project), Kassel, Germany.
“25 Years Later: Art in General,” UBS Gallery, New York.
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything,” Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Gallery, New York.
“Exile of the Imaginary: Politics, Aesthetics, Love” (“Exil des Imaginären”), Generali Foundation, Vienna.

2006
“Media Burn,” Tate Modern, London.
“Altered, Stitched and Gathered,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York.
“Wieder und Wider: Performance Appropriated,” MuMok, Vienna.
“Cooling Out: On the Paradox of Feminism” (with Andrea Geyer), Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland. Traveled.
“The F Word,” The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.
“Was Wäre Wenn #4,” JET, Berlin.
“When Artists Say We,” Artists Space, New York.

2005
Performa 05: nine street performances at various locations, New York.
“In the Poem About Love You Don’t Write the Word Love,” Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. Traveled.
“Patriot” (with Andrea Geyer), Contemporary Museum, Baltimore.

2004
“Identify! or Studies on the Political Subject,” New School University, New York.
“e-flux video rental (EVR),” New York. Traveled.
“Habeas Corpus,” Third Forum on Public Art, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (SAPS), Mexico City.
“Republican Like Me,” Parlour Projects, Brooklyn.
“Explosion LTTR: Practice More Failure,” Art in General, New York.
“Side Effects,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade.

2003
“sister” (text animation, video for the band Rhythm King and Her Friends), Berlin.
“Repetition: Pride and Prejudice,” Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia.
“Sandwiched,” Public Art Fund, New York.
“Echo Sparks,” Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria.

2002
“Organizational Form” (“Organisationen”), Skuc Gallerija. Lubijana, Slovenia.
“A Show to Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show,” The Project Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Social Sectors, WUK/Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna. Catalogue.
“FotoFest 2002,” Houston, Texas.

2001
“Akt. 3,: Teil Von . . . ?” Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna.

Selected Bibliography

2007
Latimer, Quinn. “Sharon Hayes,” Modern Painters (December–January).

2006
Bryan-Wilson, Julia. “Openings: Sharon Hayes,” Artforum (May).
Burton, Johanna. “Sharon Hayes,” Artforum (March).
Lebowitz, Cathy. “You Had To Be There: Performa 05,” Art in America (February).

2005
Lutker, Shana. “Ghost of the Public,” X-TRA (Fall).

2003
Schwendener, Martha. “Sharon Hayes, 10 Minutes of Collective Activity,” Time Out New York (August).

1999
Mattson, Rachel. “Natural Herstory,” Village Voice (November 24).
Stone, Laurie. “Sharon Hayes,” Out (November).

1998
Klein, Julia M. “Lesbians in Their Natural Habitat,” Philadelphia Inquirer (September 10).