Hayley Barker facts for kids
Hayley Barker is an American painter known for her unique and thoughtful artworks. She creates paintings that often explore nature, mystery, and deep feelings.
About Hayley Barker
Hayley Barker was born in Oregon, a state in the United States. She loved art and studied it at the University of Oregon and the University of Iowa. After finishing her studies, she became a professional painter. Today, Hayley lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Her paintings have been shown in many art galleries and museums across the country, including New York and Chicago.
What Her Art Is About
Hayley Barker's paintings often make you feel like you are looking into a dream or a secret world. She uses thick paint to create rich textures, making her art feel very alive.
In 2011, an art critic named Sue Taylor wrote about Barker's show called "Cathedrals." Taylor said that Barker's paintings show a very strong connection to nature, like forests and skies. She also mentioned how Barker uses oil paint in a way that makes it look rich and beautiful. Taylor even compared Barker's paintings to the famous artists Georgia O'Keeffe and Vincent van Gogh.
Barker's "Cathedrals" series was inspired by the childhood diary of Opal Whiteley. Opal had special, spiritual experiences and saw the world in a very unique way. Barker wanted to imagine and show this different way of seeing things in her art.
Later, in 2020, art critic Barry Schwabsky wrote about Barker's first solo show in New York. He said that Barker's paintings show spaces that are hard to describe. He called them "spaces of passage," meaning places of change or transition. Her artworks often talk about mystery and what lies beyond what we can easily see or understand.
In 2024, Hayley Barker had a solo exhibition called "The Ringing Stone" in Edinburgh, Scotland. A reviewer from Wallpaper* magazine called it "One of the most beautiful shows" at the Edinburgh Art Festival. The main painting in this show features a very old carved stone from the island of Tiree.
Solo Art Shows
Hayley Barker has had many solo art shows where only her work was displayed. Here are some of them:
- 2017 "New Paintings" Bozo Mag/Abode, LA
- 2018 "AMPM," Holding Contemporary/Williamson Knight, Portland, OR
- 2018 "Hayley Barker: Open Studio," Bozo Mag, LA
- 2019 "LATE BLOOMER," Bozo Mag, LA
- 2020 ALAC, Bozo Mag, LA
- 2020 "The Grass is Blue", SHRINE, NYC
- 2021 "Incense", The Armory Art Fair with Shrine, NYC
- 2022 "The Spider," SHRINE, NYC
- 2022 "Bozo House," BozoMag, Los Angeles
- 2023 "Laguna Castle," Night Gallery, Los Angeles
Group Art Shows
Hayley Barker has also been part of many group art shows, where her work was shown alongside other artists. Here are some of them:
- 2018 "The Divine Joke," Anita Rogers Gallery, NY
- 2018 "Take Care," GAS, LA
- 2019 "Summer Formal," La Loma Projects, LA
- 2020 "Conscious Collaboration with Spirit," SOIL Gallery, Seattle
- 2020 Connections: Shrine, NYC
- 2020 "New Beginnings..." Nicodim, LA
- 2020 NADA: This is fair
- 2020 "Untitled, (But Loved)" Bosse & Baum, London
- 2020 "Eartha" Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
- 2021 "The Language of Flowers," Reyes Finn, Detroit, MI
- 2021 "36 Paintings," Harper's East Hampton
- 2021: "The Rock," BozoMag in collaboration with Pocket Studio, Los Angeles
- 2022: "Shrubs," Night Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2022: "Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes," Acquavella Gallery, NYC
- 2023 "Death of an Outsider," SHRINE, Los Angeles
