Installation view, Close My Eyes To See, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, 2023. Photo by Eric Cortes.
Hayley Quentin creates introspective, resonant works informed by mysticism, wisdom traditions, science-fiction, and human experience. Throughout her work, repeated motifs shimmer in and out of observation, an echo of Quentin’s inimitable layering process. Each piece is allowed to reveal itself over time, endlessly. As a whole, Quentin is forming a mythic visual language, a syncretic accretion of her pursuits of the unknowable edge.
Quentin was born in Los Angeles, California, during the year of the comet that is her namesake. She received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2023. Recent exhibitions include Signal Fires at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in Los Angeles and a three-person booth at The Armory Show in New York. Quentin has presented two solo exhibitions with LOOCK Galerie in Berlin, Germany. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles and Wolfgang Gallery in Atlanta. Quentin was the 2022 recipient of The Martha Alf Foundation Grant. She was recently included in New American Paintings Pacific Coast Issue #169. Notable press includes The Wall Street Journal and Hyperallergic.
She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.