Installation view, Close My Eyes To See, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, 2023. Photo by Eric Cortes.

Hayley Quentin creates introspective, resonant works informed by science fiction, mysticism, wisdom traditions, and a human’s 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 Infinity’s Edge at Nazarian / Curcio (2025) and Signal Fires at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (2024) in Los Angeles. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles and Wolfgang Gallery in Atlanta. Quentin has presented two solo exhibitions with Loock Galerie in Berlin, Germany, as well as a three-person booth at The Armory Show in New York in 2023.


Notable press includes Artforum (the March 2026 Issue), The Wall Street Journal (2023), and Hyperallergic (2023). Quentin was the 2022 recipient of The Martha Alf Foundation Grant. Her work was featured in New American Paintings Pacific Coast Issue #169, and was a shortlisted artist for The Hopper Prize (Fall 2025).


She is based in Los Angeles, California.