Hailey Howe - Multidisciplinary Artist
Through sculpture, performance and installation, Hailey Howe explores concepts of extorting the abject through the body, creating permanence within mortality and the fragility within gender roles and sexuality. In her practice, she utilizes a wide range of materials including metals, fibers, concrete, plaster and silicones. Howe pushes the manipulation of these materials to the absolute furthest point, pushing tension within the concepts of the works as well as the physicality.
Within her sculptural work, the body is often exaggerated and extorted to fit in themes of violence and vulnerability. This abstraction of the body speaks in the same language as the manipulation of material. Processes in the work carry a sense of both violence and care; ranging from forging, welding and dismantling as well as sanding, smoothing and staining. The balance between the two processes are very important in Howe’s work, as she strives to demonstrate the necessity of both masculinity and femininity through physicality.
Inspired heavily by surrealist and feminist art movements, her work pulls from genuine and raw expression. As she further intertwines performance and installation alongside the sculptures, the objects begin to take on a life of their own. The use of movement and space further the feeling sensitivity throughout the pieces; it allows the viewer to live through the art just as the objects do.
Hailey Anne Howe
2003 Born in Troy MI
Lives and works in Detroit MI
Education
2021 Graduated from Troy High School, Troy MI
2025 Graduated from the College For Creative Studies, Detroit MI
Exhibitions
2022 Student Exhibition, College for Creative Studies, Detroit MI
2023 Student Exhibition, College for Creative Studies, Detroit MI
2024 Student Exhibition, College for Creative Studies, Detroit MI
2024 Annual Scholarship Awards & Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit MI
2024 Taking Care: Site Specific Installation Exhibition, Herman Kiefer Hospital, Detroit, MI
2024 HOT DAM, juried by Katie Pfohl, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit MI
2024 Nest, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit MI
2024 U R What U Eat, Someday Detroit, Detroit MI
2024 Leafless: Juried Student Exhibition by Sara Nickleson, College For Creative Studies, Detroit MI
Honors/Awards
2024 Create The Change Scholarship Award
2024 Ross Family Scholarship Award
2024 College For Creative Studies Dean's Award Scholarship
2024 B&E Ford Completion Scholarship
2024 MCNAMARA Scholarship
2024 John F. Korachis Scholarship Award
Bibliography
2024 Detroit Artists Market HOT DAM! Highlights; written by Hayla Hay