Sharon Hayes

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

6 September 2025 – 11 January 2026

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, I KNOW THAT THE EARS ARE THE ONLY ORIFICE THAT CAN'T BE CLOSED, 2008

Silkscreen print on paper, 45.5×29 cm, 17⅞×11⅜ in, Edition of 25 + 4 AP

Deutsche Bank, the main sponsors of the Frieze Art Fair 2008, invited Sharon Hayes to create a unique artists' edition. 15 free editions could be found in the Deutsche Bank magazine, available at the fair. Hayes’s edition, I KNOW THAT THE EARS ARE THE ONLY ORIFICE THAT CAN’T BE CLOSED, 2008, explores the mapping of political desire onto personal desire and vice versa.

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