This page contains links to articles, interviews, and videos that can be incorporated into course syllabi or used for individual student research. For detailed event information, visit saic.edu/cate.
Sharon Hayes: Ricerche: Four
Thursday, October 9, 6:00 p.m. CT
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street
Faculty can reserve tickets for their classes here.
Followed by a conversation with Hayes and audience Q&A.
All CATE events will have real-time captioning (CART). The Gene Siskel Film Center is ADA accessible and its theaters are equipped with hearing loops. For other accessibility requests, please visit saic.edu/access or write cate@saic.edu
Artist Sharon Hayes presents Ricerche: four, a powerful and deeply moving two‑channel video composed from interviews with groups of LGBTQ+ elders across the United States. Weaving together participants’ insights on sex, identity, joy, and survival gained across lifetimes, the work is an insistent reminder of the galvanizing force of shared testimony and intergenerational connection.
Sharon Hayes uses video, performance, sound, and public sculpture to examine the intersections of history, politics, and speech. Her work seeks to unravel reductive historical narratives and reactivate dormant pathways for imagining political resistance. She lingers in the grammars—linguistic, affective, and sonic—through which resistance takes form, aligning her practice with a heterogeneous field of voices and actions that challenge normative behaviors, unjust social contracts, and prescriptive notions of time. Hayes’s work is rooted in collaboration and sustained by a vital commitment to performance and the radical potential of non-normative public space. She sees public space as a site for unregulated, unpredictable encounters and collective possibility. Hayes has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including at Neue Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Andrea Rosen Gallery (New York), Tanya Leighton Gallery (Berlin), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid). Her work has also been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York). She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2024); a Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2024); a United States Artists Fellowship (2021); a Pew Fellowship (2016); a Guggenheim Fellowship (2014); the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2013); an Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2013); and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship (2007). She is professor and chair of Fine Arts at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.
Sharon Hayes Explores Performance, Identity, and History
Dorris, Jesse | Penn Today | May 28, 2024
On Ricerche and Research: Sharon Hayes in Conversation with Ruth Erickson
Erickson, Ruth | VoCA Journal | March 13, 2024
The Space of an Encounter: An Interview with Sharon Hayes*
Shanks, Gwyneth, and Sharon Hayes | Theatre Journal, vol. 74 (3) | p. E-73-E-83 | September 2022
*This is a library resource that requires ARTIC login
Sharon Hayes
Taft, Catherine | Artforum | Summer 2021
Sharon Hayes Turns the Camera on People Who Have Found Their People
Klett, Maddie | Frieze | May 19, 2021
Commitment and Desire in Sharon Hayes’s Ricerche: Three
Gogarty, Larne Abse | Tate Papers, vol. 25 | November 2017
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist Sharon Hayes
Pew Center for Arts & Heritage | May 5, 2017
Speaking to Strangers: Sharon Hayes and the Publics of Politics*
Maimon, Vered | TDR: Drama Review, vol. 59 (3) | p. 29–48 | September 2015
*This is a library resource that requires ARTIC login
Sharon Hayes Sounds Off*
Bryan-Wilson, Julia | Afterall, vol. 38 (1) | p. 16–27 | March 2015
*This is a library resource that requires ARTIC login
We Have a Future: An Interview with Sharon Hayes*
Bryan-Wilson, Julia, and Sharon Hayes | Grey Room, vol. 37 | p. 78–93 | October 2009
*This is a library resource that requires ARTIC login
The Non-Event*
Hayes, Sharon | Art Journal, vol. 70 (3) | p. 45–46 | September 2011
*This is a library resource that requires ARTIC login
Sharon Hayes*
Apostol, Corina L., and Nato Thompson | in Making Another World Possible | 2020
*This is a library resource that requires ARTIC login
Sharon Hayes
by
Queer
by
Sharon Hayes
by
Conversations at the Edge Lecture Recordings
Conversation at the Edge video recordings (2016–present.) Available with SAIC login credentials.