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Artist Talk: Donté K. Hayes
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Cosmic Artifacts
Donté K. Hayes
Artist Talk | Thursday, November 6, 2025 | 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition on view November 6 – December 19, 2025
Please join us for an in-person artist talk with Donté K. Hayes. The talk is in conjunction with his exhibition, Cosmic Artifacts, on view in the Jane Hartsook Gallery. To read more about the exhibition, click here.
Hayes is a New Jersey-based artist. He earned his MA and MFA from the University of Iowa and his BFA from Kennesaw State University. His work has been shown internationally, including Design Miami (FL; 2025), Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw, GA; 2023), the Armory Show (New York, NY; 2021), and the 1-54 Art Fair (London, England; 2019). Hayes’s work is part of the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Gardiner Museum, and the Institute Museum of Ghana, among others. He has received many prestigious awards, including the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art from the Gibbes Museum of Art, the 2019 Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist Award, and the 2022 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant. Hayes has been a resident artist at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Penland School of Craft, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. He is represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, Florida.
The talk is free and open to the public with RSVP.
