Nancy Haynes | |
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| Born | 1947 (age 78–79) Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Known for | Painting |
Nancy Haynes (born 1947) is an American artist and educator. She lives between New York City, and Huerfano County, Colorado.
Nancy Haynes was born in 1947, in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Haynes is a conceptual artist. Her art-historical influences cite Marcel Duchamp, Mondrian, Dan Flavin, On Kawara and Ad Reinhardt, but as Marjorie Welish noted in her essay, “Nancy Haynes, A Literature of Silence”, Haynes’ also has influences from literature.[citation needed]
In Haynes’ recent paintings, the canvases began to “evolve from a paler shade of a given pigment to a darker one, creating a horizontal movement that pulls the eye toward an unseen source of light.”
More notable works include her autobiographical color charts series (2005–2013), which employ swatches of color contained within grids, meant to give an autobiography of the artist.
Haynes began exhibiting her work in the late 1970s and has since held numerous solo exhibitions. Selected solo exhibitions are below:
In addition to her painting career, Haynes has contributed to the academic field through teaching and lectures. She served as a visiting lecturer at Princeton University in 2000 and lectured at the Carpenter Center at Harvard University in 1992.[citation needed] From 1986 to 1989, she was an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College in New York.[citation needed]
Haynes has been awarded by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1995, The National Endowment for the Arts in 1987 and again in 1990, and the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1987.[citation needed]
Her work is included in museum collections, including:
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