Donté K. Hayes Virtual Artist Talk

About the event

The Fine Arts Department presents an artist lecture and exhibition of work by Donté K. Hayes, supported by the Forst Endowed Visiting Artist Program.

Hayes’s art practice pulls from an interest in hip-hop culture, history, and science fiction. For Hayes, ceramics becomes a bridge to conceptually integrate disparate objects and images for the purpose of creating new understandings and connections with material, history, and social-political issues. The artworks suggest the past, discuss the present, and explore possible futures interconnected to the African Diaspora.

Hayes’s artwork has been presented at the 1-54 art fair in London and at Design Miami in Florida. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, in Texas.

Hayes is a 2019 Ceramics Monthly Magazine Emerging Artists and Artaxis Fellow and is the 2019 winner of the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art from the Gibbes Museum of Art. He is represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, Florida.