Nancy Haynes


Nancy Haynes is an artist living and working in New York. She was born in Connecticut and shares her time between living in New York City and the Huerfano Valley in Colorado.

Paintings

Haynes is a conceptual artist. Her art-historical influences cite Marcel Duchamp, Mondrian, Dan Flavin, On Kawara and Ad Reinhardt, but as Marjorie Welish noted in her essay, “Nancy Haynes, A Literature of Silence”, Haynes’ also has influences from literature. Welish states:
In Haynes’ recent paintings, the canvases began to “evolve from a paler shade of a given pigment to a darker one, creating a horizontal movement that pulls the eye toward an unseen source of light.”
More notable works include her autobiographical color charts series, which employ swatches of color contained within grids, meant to give an autobiography of the artist.

Notable exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions
Haynes has been awarded by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1995, The National Endowment for the Arts in 1987 and again in 1990, and the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1987.

Public collections

Her work is in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Hood Museum of Art in Dartmouth, NH, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, the Denver Art Museum, Haags Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, Holland, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX, The Ackland Museum, in Chapel Hill, NC, The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA, The Rose Art Museum at Bradeis University in Waltham, MA, The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, The San Diego Museum of Art, The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA and the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, among many others.