photo courtesy Tim Race
Anthony Hawley (b.1977) is a New York City-based multidisciplinary artist and writer whose hybrid practice spans sound, video, drawing, installation, text and performance. His work is driven by a fascination with the interplay between narrative, power, various technologies old and new, and the many roles language plays in our lives, be they oppressive, liberatory or otherwise. He has exhibited nationally and internationally with notable solo projects presented by Lubov Gallery (NY) (2023), the Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process series (NY) (2020); The Salina Art Center (KS) (2018); Spazju Kreattiv (Malta) (2016); and Vox Populi Gallery (PA) (2014). In 2016, CounterCurrent, The Menil Collection, and Aurora Picture Show collaborated to produce his five-day multimedia performance work “Fault Diagnosis,” engaging audiences across the city of Houston with live performance, projections, a 1985 Nissan Pulsar NX turned micro-cinema, and audio narratives via a GPS-triggered app. He is a MacDowell fellow (2023, 2012), and has also been awarded residencies at VCCA, the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Art Farm, and Avaloch Farm and Music Institute among others.
Hawley is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, including the hyrbid poetry/drawing artist book dear donald...(2021). He is also the author of several chapbooks from Ugly Duckling Presse, Counterpath Press, and others, and his poems have been published widely in The Paris Review, The New Republic, Denver Quarterly, The Bennigton Review, Verse, The Colorado Review, VOLT, 1913, Tupelo Quarterly and many more. His writings on art and film appear frequently in Art in America, Art Papers, Artforum, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, CARLA, Frieze, Hyperallergic, and MUBI notebook.
With violinist/vocalist Rebecca Fischer, he makes up the duo The Afield, which recently premiered works at The Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center (2022), Carnegie Hall (2022), and Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn (2020).
Hawley received his BA and MFA in Writing from Columbia University as well as an MFA in Art Practice from The School of Visual Arts.
He teaches at Hunter College in the MFA Studio Art Program and at MICA’s Low Residency MFA program as well as at the BFA Fine Arts program at SVA.
Press
Interview with Andrew Woolbright, Below Grand Gallery, 2021
Hyperallergic, “A Performance Protest Against the ‘Petty Thuggery’ of Fascist Monsters”
NPR MUSIC Premiere's "Remnant", Anthony Hawley's video for Valgeir Sigurðsson's new track performed by violist Jonah Sirota
on The Book of Spells with Rebecca Fischer at Fiendish Plots
on Ten Tiny Dances at Countercurrent 16 in Texas Arts and Culture
on Countercurrent 16 in Texas Arts and Culture
on "Drake Ghost" drawings in Culure Island
interview with Culture Island, April 2015
on "Loculus," DargerHQ, Lincoln, NE 1015
on "Passenger", Vox Populi, Philadelphia, 2014