Born 1970, Baltimore. Lives and works in Philadelphia.
Come Out, Come Out, Art on the Underground, Transport for London
What Do We Want, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Ricerche, The Common Guild, Glasgow
An Army Of Lovers Cannot Lose, Tanya Leighton, Berlin with Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles
Walk This Way, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany
Black with love, intact as a flower, Michela Rizzo Gallery, Venice
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
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
Born 1970, Baltimore. Lives and works in Philadelphia.
Come Out, Come Out, Art on the Underground, Transport for London
What Do We Want, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Ricerche, The Common Guild, Glasgow
An Army Of Lovers Cannot Lose, Tanya Leighton, Berlin with Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles
I March in the Parade of Liberty but as Long as I Love You I’m Not Free, New Museum, New York
Nel Mezzo, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Echo, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
If They Should Ask, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia
In My Little Corner of the World, Anyone Would Love You, The Common Guild, Glasgow
In My Little Corner of the World, Anyone Would Love You, Studio Voltaire, London
Black Box: Sharon Hayes, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Fingernails on a Blackboard, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Sharon Hayes: Loudspeakers and Other Forms of Listening (curated by Heather Anderson), Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
Public Appearances, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Sharon Hayes: There's so much I want to say to you (curated by Chrissie Iles), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Habla (curated by Lynne Cooke), Museo Nacoinal Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Sharon Hayes, Tanya Leighton at Proyectos Monclova, Mexico D.F.
Sharon Hayes, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York
focus: Sharon Hayes, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
In The Near Future, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
Andrea Geyer | Sharon Hayes, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden
Andrea Geyer | Sharon Hayes, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Sharon Hayes: The Future is Unthinkable, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp
We The People, Context Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
In The Near Future, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
In The Near Future, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art
I march in the parade of liberty, but as long as I love you I'm not free (organized by Massimiliano Gioni), New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York
o.T.Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Luzern, Switzerland
Everything Else Has Failed! Don’t You Think It’s Time for Love?, Art in General, New York
Room Gallery, University of California, Irvine, California
VideoIn, Vancouver
LaRebeca, Bogotá
Parlour Projects, New York
Cambio de Lugar_Change of Place_Ortswechsel (with Andrea Geyer), Platform & Galerie Paula Boettcher, Berlin; Signal, Malmö, Sweden
Cambio de Lugar_Change of Place (with Andrea Geyer), Museum of Contemporary Art PS1 , Queens, New York
Cambio de Lugar_Change of Place/The Interpreter Project (with
Andrea Geyer)
La Panaderia, Mexico City
Living Room, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas
Walk This Way, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany
Black with love, intact as a flower, Michela Rizzo Gallery, Venice
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
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
It’s Human Nature?, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg (forthcoming)
Comizi d’Amore, Georg Kargl, Vienna (forthcoming)
Contemporanea International Film Festival, Turin (forthcoming)
(Wahl-) Familie, Die, Wir, Sind, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg
What is the Proper Way to Display a Flag?, Museum für moderne Kunst, Weserburg
Paint the Protest, Off Paradise, New York
To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Shifting the Silence, SFMoMA, San Francisco
Performing Past-Present: Transforming Reenactment, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Pennsylvania
A Decade of Acquisitions of Works on Paper, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
After August Sander, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
All that We Have In Common, MoCA Skopje, North Macedonia
Yesterday we said tomorrow, Prospect 5 Triennial, New Orleans
Pictured as a Poem, KAI10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
One Escape at a Time, 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul
Burning Speech, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
New Grit: Art & Philly Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Mapping the Collection, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Commonwealth, Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia
Read My Lips, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Politics of Rhetoric, The Print Center, Philadelphia
Nothing Will Be As Before, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Artists for Studio Voltaire, Studio Voltaire, London
Department of Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota
I can call this progress to halt, LACE, Los Angeles
Change of State, Essex Street, New York
The Revolution Will Not Be Gray, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
Curators’ Series #9. Way of Living (curated by Arcadia Missa), David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Regarding Spectatorship: Revolt and the Observer, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
Public Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970s – Now, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
A Prologue to the Past and Present State of Things, Delfina Foundation, London
The Art of Our Time, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
See you at the barricades, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Self-Timer Stories, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Walking Sculpture 1967-2015, deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
A Voice Remains: Andrea Bowers, Sam Durant, Hans Haacke, Sharon Hayes, Mary Kelly & Carrie Mae Weems, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Sharon Hayes, Tony Lewis, Adam Pendleton, Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, New York
Actions Must Match Words, Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme, Quebec
All Tomorrow’s Past, Kunsthaus Hamburg
Self-Timer, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Zero Tolerance: Miami, National YoungArts Foundation, Miami
Zero Tolerance, MoMA PS1, New York
Syster, The Borås Museum of Modern Art, Borås, Sweden
RESPOND, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn
The Militant Image: Picturing What Is Already Going On, Or The Poetics of the Militant Image, Camera Austria, Graz
What’s love got to do with it?, Hayward Gallery, London
The Institute of Sexology, Wellcome Collection, London
Moderation(s): The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Grip Friheten! Take Liberty!, Nasjonalmuseet Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art, Norway
Liebe (curated by Barbara J. Scheuermann and Cathrin Langanke), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
In the Near Future: The Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
in Warsaw, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Someone Like Me, Murray Guy, New York
global aCtIVISm, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Révolte Logique, Part II, Marcelle Alix, Paris
Schizophonia (curated by Anna Colin and Sam Thorne), Centre d’art contemporain la synagogue de Delme, Paris
See Under: Actor, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel
NOT NOW! NOW!, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
More Love: Art, Politics and Sharing Since the 1990s, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (curated by Massimiliano Gioni), 55th Venice Biennale, Venice
In Heart of the Country, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Keywords and the Powers of Eloquence, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language (curated by Laura Hoptman), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Performing Histories (1), Yoshiko and Akio Morita Gallery at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Catch Phrases and the Powers of Language, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
The Air we Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA)
9 Scripts from a Nation at War (curated by Sabine Breitwieser and Martin Hartung), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Americans in New York, 1, Michel Rein Gallery, Paris, France
Demonstrations. Making Normative Orders (curated by Fanti Baum, Britta Peters and Dr. Sabine Witt), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Five Acts: Chronicles Of Dissent (curated by Yaelle Amir), Marginal Utility, Philadelphia
Idea is the Object (curated by Pavan Segal and Tracy Parker), D'Amelio Gallery, New York
Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954-003064: A Public Reading, in conjunction with Perfoma 11, MoMA, New York
Glee (curated by Cecilia Alemani), Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Speech Matters, The Danish Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice
Found in Translation, Guggenheim, New York; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
The Other Tradition (curated by Elena Filipovic), Wiels, Brussels
To the Arts, Citizens! (curated by Isabel Braga and Óscar Faria), Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
AS SO CI ATIONS, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Vectors of the Possible (curated by Simon Sheikh), Basis voor Actuele Kunst – BAK, Utrecht
Publics and counterpublics, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo – CAAC, Sevilla, Spain
Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to
the Present (curated by Douglas Crimp and Lynne Cooke), Reina Sofia, Madrid
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Greater New York (curated by Klaus Biesenbach), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
This Story Is Not Ready For Its Footnotes (curated by Camilla Pignatti Morano and Pelin Uran), Ex Elettrofonica, Rome
Invisible Publics, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo
Queer Voice, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (catalogue)
4th Auckland Triennial: Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon, Auckland, New Zealand (catalogue)
Early Years(curated by Sebastian Cichocki, Ana Janevski, Katarzyna Karwańska and Joanna Mytkowska), presented by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Kunstwerke, Berlin
2010 Whitney Biennial (curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Fall Out, GI Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark (catalogue)
Monument to Transformation, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain (catalogue)
100 Years (version 2), PS1, New York
Come in, friends, the house is yours! (curated by Anja Casser), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Ecstatic Resistance (organized by Emily Roysdon), Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri; X Initiative, New York
Alan Kaprow Yard (organized by Helen Molesworth), Hauser & Wirth, New York
11th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul (catalogue)
The Monument of Transformation, City Gallery Prague
Talk Show (curated by Will Holder with Richard Birkett and Jennifer Thatcher), The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Playing the City (curated by Matthias Ulrich), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
How To Do Things With Words, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Saints and Sinner, The Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Gallery and Lower Rose Gallery; The Rose Art Museum, Watham, Massachusetts
Audio, Video, Disco (curated by David Bussel), Kunsthalle Zürich
9 Scripts from a Nation at War, REDCAT, Los Angeles
Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Parsons The New School for Design in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, New York
2 x [(2 x 20) + (2 x 2)] + 2 = X x (desperately) trying to
figure out the world)(curated by Konrad Bitterli), Part 1: Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich; Part II: Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
Frieze Projects(curated by Neville Wakefield), London
Yokohoma Triennale 2008 – Time Crevasse, Shinko Pier Exhibition Hall, Yokohama, Japan (catalogue)
The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
Democracy in America: The National Campaign, Creative Time in association with Park Avenue Armory, New York and the Walker Art Center and the Unconvention, Minneapolis
Not Quite How I Remember It, The Power Plant, Toronto
Freeway Balconies (curated by Collier Schorr), Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
No More Reality. Step 3: SHARED FOLDER, de Appel, Amsterdam
9 Scripts from a Nation at War, Tate Modern, London
Intimacy(curated by Anne Pasternak), The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, New York
Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp.002954-003064, A Public Reading, Tate Modern, London
Perplexed in Public, Lisson Gallery and LUX, London
Not Quite How I Remember It, The Power Plant, Toronto
E-flux Video Rental, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo
Perdigåo – Fundaçåo, Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Experimental Marathon Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir
Two or three things I know about her (curated by Helen Molesworth), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts
On Procession, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
War Stories, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston
voiceoverhead, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
In The Poem About Love You Don’t Write The Word Love, Overgaden – Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen
25 Years Later: Welcome to Art in General, UBS Gallery, New York
documenta 12 (collaborative project), Kassel
In the Eye of the Storm – Im Auge des Zyklons, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
In the Poem about love you don't write the word love, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
E-Flux Video Rental, Centre Culturel Suisee, Paris
E-Flux Video Rental, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts
If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything, Elizabeth Foundation, New York
Media Burn, Tate Modern, London
Exile of the Imaginary: Politics, Aesthetics, Love, Generali Foundation, Vienna
Media Burn, Tate Modern, London
Altered, Stitched and Gathered, P.S. 1, Queens, New York
In the poem about love you don’t write the word love, Artists Space, New York
Wieder und Wider: Performance Appropriated, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Considering the Institution, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Knowing You/Knowing Me(collaboration with Andrea Geyer), Camera Austria, Graz; Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Cooling Out. On the Paradox of Feminism (collaboration with Andrea Geyer), Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland; Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, England; Kunstraum, Lüneburg, Germany
The F Word, The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Was Wäre Wenn #4, JET, Berlin
When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York
In the Poem About Love You Don’t Write the Word Love, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; ARGOS and Musée du Cinéma, Brussels (traveled to: Artists Space, New York; Midway Contemporary Arts; OVERGATEN—Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen)
I Beg Your Pardon, or the Reestablishing of Cordial Relations, Vera List Center for Arts and Politics, New York
Patriot (with Andrea Geyer) Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
PERFORMA 05, New York
E-Flux Video Rental, Portikus, Frankfurt
Old News, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Identify! Studies on the Political Subject, New School for Social Research, New York
e-flux video rental, New York
Habeas Corpus, Third Forum on Public Art, Mexico
Imagine, Deitch Projects, New York
Republican Like Me, Parlour Projects, New York
LTTR: Practice More Failure series, Art in General, New York
Yugoslav Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac, Serbia and Montenegro
Bonn Biennia1 2004, Bonn, Germany
Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
Side Effects, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
GO!, Liquidación Total, Madrid, Spain
Repetition: Pride and Prejudice(curated by WHW), Gallery Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
Sandwiched, Public Art Fund, New York
Western: Terms of Use, Charlottenborg Center for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Echo Sparks, Ars Electronica Museum, Linz, Austria
The Real Me, Occidental College, Los Angeles
I am a Curator, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Charlottenborg Autumn Exhibition 2003, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Former den Organisation, Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität Lüneberg, Germany; Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
Secondary Sources, Front Room Gallery, Williamsburg
A Show to Show that a Show is Not Only a Show, The Project, Los Angeles
Democracy When?, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Social Sectors, Kunstalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Organisationtional Form (curated by Roger M. Bürgel and Ruth Noak), Skuc Gallerija, Ljublijana, Slovenia
Teil Von…?, Akt. 3, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
The Interpreter Project, University of California, Los Angeles
RAIN Project, Fotofest, Houston
Open Studios, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
Keeping Track of the Joneses, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York