Artist Bill Hayward (b 1942) works in a wide array of media, including: photography, film, painting, music, sculpture, and dance. In all cases, Hayward’s work is primarily inspired by mud, blood, possibility and the drama of living forms. To these ends, his work explores the human body—its outward appearance and innermost feelings—often entering territories of vulnerability and emotional risk. Vaginal echo.
Memories surfaced, some pleasant, some frightening. I left Bill’s studio at dusk feeling both lighter and more vulnerable, the way one might feel after a psychological breakthrough. Stacey Harwood, Editor, The Best American Poetry
Hayward’s works has been exhibited in galleries and performance centers in France, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, the UK and throughout the United States.
His film BENT in collaboration with Grounded Aerial was featured on W Magazine’s Fashion Films site. His first feature film Asphalt, Muscle & Bone was awarded at numerous film festivals worldwide throughout 2019. His just completed second feature, Chasing Dragons - Designing the Dead is releasing Spring 2024.
Hayward’s books include: Cat People (Doubleday, 1978), bill hayward (Paglia Press 1989), Bad Behavior (Rizzoli, 2000), and Chasing Dragons - An Uncommon Memoir in Photographs. (Glitterati, 2015)
Hayward is on the board of the literary journal NOON; is a contributor to The Best American Poetry Blog, and is the Artist-in-Residence for Psychology Tomorrow Magazine.
He is a co-founder of The Maine Photographic Workshops (now the Maine Media Workshops), wherein he taught Master Class Workshops in portraiture and the creative process. He has also taught Master Classes at the International Center of Photography (New York City); Palm Beach Photographic Workshops (West Palm Beach, Florida), and the Art Kane Photo Workshops (Cape May, New Jersey).
Hayward lives and in works in New York City.
Hayward’s on line at: www.billhayward.com, and instagram: billhaywardnyc.
Forget all the clichés about the eyes being the window of the soul, or you are what you wear. Hayward has devised a means to finger-print the imagination, with forensic exactitude.
Ah... there are democratic humanists, still!
David Cohen, artcritical
PORTRAITS OF THE COLLABORATIVE-SELF
A partial selection of some past Portrait Performances and Installations:
Independence Hall - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Martin Luther King Jr. Historic Site - Atlanta, Georgia
Golden Gate National Parks/Alcatraz - San Francisco, California
Boston African American National Site and Bunker Hill/Boston National Historical Park - Boston, Massachusetts
Lowell National Park - Lowell, Massachusetts
Golden Spike National Historic Site - Promontory Summit, Utah
Little Bighorn Battlefield - Crow Agency, Montana
One-Room School House - Big Timber, Montana
Dealey Plaza and The Texas Theater - Dallas, Texas
Hopewell Culture NHP - Chillicothe, Ohio
Point of Beginning - East Liverpool, Ohio
Las Vegas, Nevada
LA/Hollywood/Southern California - California
World Trade Center - NYC
Medicine Wheel NHS - Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming
Working Cowboys - Livingston, Montana
Ft McHenry - Baltimore, Maryland
Santa Fe Performing Arts Center - Santa Fe, New Mexico
Williams Center for the Arts, “The Roethke Humanities and Performance Art Festival” Lafayette College - Easton, Pennsylvania
Skillman Gallery, “Bill Hayward’s The American Memory Project” Lafayette College - Easton Pennsylvania
New Harmony, Indiana
Selma, Alabama
Zero-One Gallery - Los Angeles, California
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Los Angeles, California
“33 Crosby”, 33 Crosby Street, NYC
“Meet The Artist” - Apple Store, Soho - NYC
“Fashion’s Night Out - NYC” - Apple Store, 14th Street - NYC
“Fashion’s Night Out - NYC” - The High Line Hotel - NYC
“On The Corner”, The Roger Smith Gallery - NYC
“Bill Hayward’s The Human Bible - 41st & Eighth” - NYC
Martin Art Center - Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
