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.

Exhibitions

Haynes began exhibiting her work in the late 1970s and has since held numerous solo exhibitions. Selected solo exhibitions are below:Compressing Light, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany, 2025A madeleine dipped in ink, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria, 2022Paintings: to the poets, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria, 2017Nancy Haynes: this painting oil on linen, Regina Rex, New York, 2017Nancy Haynes: anomalies and non sequiturs, Regina Rex, New York, 2015Nancy Haynes: Recent Paintings, George Lawson Gallery, Los Angeles, 2012Selected Small Paintings, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, 2020Dissolution, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, 2009Nancy Haynes, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria, 2006Nancy Haynes, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria, 2002Between Two Appearances, Stark Gallery, New York, 2000Nancy Haynes, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria, 1998

Teaching and Lectures

In addition to her painting career, Haynes has contributed to the academic field through teaching and lectures. She served as a visiting lecturer at Princeton University in 2000 and lectured at The Carpenter Center at Harvard University in 1992. From 1986 to 1989, she was an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College in New York.

Awards

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 included in major American and European museums, including:

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 in Brooklyn, New York
The Hood Museum of Art in Dartmouth, NH
The Addison Gallery of American Art at the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA
The Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware
The Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, Netherlands
The Kunstmuseum Den Haag at The Hague, Netherlands
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX
The Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC
The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA
The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA
The Harvard Art Museums at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA
The Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA
The UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA