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Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
36th Bienal de São Paulo

6 September 2025 – 11 January 2026

Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years
Grey Art Museum, New York

1 April – 19 July 2025

Biography

Born 1970, Baltimore. Lives and works in Philadelphia.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

Come Out, Come Out, Art on the Underground, Transport for London

2022

What Do We Want, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

2021

Ricerche, The Common Guild, Glasgow
An Army Of Lovers Cannot Lose, Tanya Leighton, Berlin with Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice, 36th Bienal de São Paulo
Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years, Grey Art Museum, New York

2024

Queer Histories, The São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo
Walk This Way, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better than the Real Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960, The Warehouse, Dallas
Black with love, intact as a flower, Michela Rizzo Gallery, Venice
Allegory of Happiness, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Trento, Italy
On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine

2023

It’s Human Nature?, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
Comizi d’Amore, Georg Kargl, Vienna
Contemporanea International Film Festival, Turin
(Wahl-) Familie, Die, Wir, Sind, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg

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Sharon Hayes, In the Near Future, 2009

35 mm multiple-slide-projection installation, Dimensions variable, Edition of 3 + 1 AP

Sharon Hayes, In the Near Future, 2009

35 mm multiple-slide-projection installation, Dimensions variable, Edition of 3 + 1 AP

Installation view, Deutsche Guggenheim, 2012

In the Near Future

‘In the Near Future’ is a performance-based artwork in which Hayes stages anachronistic and speculative protest actions in an ongoing investigation into the figure of the protester, the speech act of the protest sign and the contemporary political construction of public space and public speech.

‘In the Near Future’ exists in two parts: the first part is a series of performative actions and the second is an installation in which the photographic documents of these actions are projected from multiple slide projectors. Taken over several years in locations of current or historic public speech or protest - Brussels, London, New York, Paris, Vienna, Warsaw - the performative-actions of ‘In the Near Future’ are not constructed as a literal reenactment of a past protest but rather function as a citation of sorts: one that marks both the memory of a past protest and the possibility of a future one.

Sharon Hayes, In the Near Future, 2009

35 mm multiple-slide-projection installation, Dimensions variable, Edition of 3 + 1 AP

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