Haley Hasler works exclusively in the realm of the painted self-portrait and represents herself as a central point in an endlessly revolving domestic drama. Hasler illustrates the joys, fantasies, theatrics, realities and challenges of being both a devoted mother and an artist in a world that tells women that they can have it all with a flourishing career and parenthood. Hasler depicts the joy, frustration and humor of family life through carnival colors, extravagant costumes, and elaborate surroundings. Hasler states “I conceive of a painting as a kind of theater, a stage set for my characters and protagonists.” Through her life events coupled with fiction and fantasy, Hasler explores the role of women in today’s society through the lens of art history, culture and domesticity.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019  (un)tamed. Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2018  Haley Hasler. Fort Collins Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO

2015 Fruits, Flowers, Leaves and Branches. Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2015 The Tooth Fairy and Other Women. The Esther and John Clay Fine Arts Gallery, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, WY

2013 Balancing Act. The Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY

2010 Haley Hasler. Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY

2009 Haley Hasler. Evoke Contemporary,  Santa Fe, NM

2006 New Paintings. Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2004 New Paintings. Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2001 New Figuration in the Old Dominion. Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

2000 A Season in the Garden of Eden. Gallery 1234, Trinidad, West Indies

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Art of the State, Juried Exhibition, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO

2018 In Her Own Image: Self Portraits by Women 1900-2018. Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA

2018 Likeness. Artlab. Fort Collins, Co

2017 Women Painting Women: In Earnest. Traveling Exhibition. Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN and Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

2016 and 2017 Off the Hook Summer Arts Festival Exhibition. Carnegie Center for Creativity, Fort Collins, CO

2014 Sight Specific: A Selection of American Perceptual Paintings. Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA

2014 Get Real: New American Painting. Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL

2014 The Expressive Voice: Brought to Light, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham MA

2012 Separation Anxiety, Pelham Arts Center, Pelham, NY

2010 Separation Anxiety. Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

2010 Women Painting Women. Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, SC

2009 Dress Code. Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO (three-person exhibition with Deborah Oropallo and Kate Kretz)

2009 ART342 Resident’s Exhibition. Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO

2008 As Others See Us. Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT

2007 Go Figure! The Figure in Contemporary Art – A Response to Art History. McIninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University

2007 Narrative Paintings. Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD

2006 Bethesda Painting Awards Finalist Exhibition. Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD

2005 Since I Don’t Know When. Faculty Show, University of Virginia. Off-Grounds Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

2004 30 Years – Three Decades of New Art. Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

2003 Contemporary Realism. ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA

2003 Interior Dialogues. The Andrew Gallery, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

2003 New Talent. Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2003 The Best of PVCC – Works by PVCC Faculty. Piedmont Virginia Community College Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

2003 Group Exhibition. Office of the General Assembly, Richmond, VA

2002 Biennial 2002. Juried Show. Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA

2002 Paintings from the Piedmont. First Prize, Juried Show. McGuffey Arts Center, Charlottesville VA

2000 Figure, Fantasy, and Illusion. Selections from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection. Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

1999 Young Masters ’99. Annual exhibition of graduate work from Boston University and Yale. Glass Mountain Gallery, Bantam, CT

1999 New Models. Master’s Thesis Exhibition. Fuller Gallery, Boston University, MA

1995 National Society of Arts and Letters Awards Recipients Show. Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN

AWARDS RECEIVED

2019 Art of the State, Second Place Juror’s Award. Denver, Colorado

2014, 2015, 2016  Jason and Lucy Greer Foundation for the Arts, Fort Collins, CO

2009-2010 Studio Residency. ART342, Fort Collins, CO

2007 Arts Alive Artist’s Fellowship. Fort Collins, CO

2004, 2002, 2000 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award. Individual Painting Grant, Montreal

2003 Golden Foundation for the Arts Grant

2003 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship

2001 Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship

1999-2000 U.S. Fulbright Grant to Trinidad & Tobago. Painting the Trinidad Carnival, Creative Arts Center, University of the West Indies

1997-1999 Dean’s Scholar. Full-tuition scholarship, Boston University

1995 Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship

1995 Honors Summer Internship Grant to Florence, Italy. Indiana University

1995 National Society of Arts and Letters Visual Artist Award

1995 Senior Honors Achievement Award. Indiana University

1994 Vermont Studio Center Assistantship

1994 Honors Grant. Indiana University

1994 Pygmalion Annual Art Award. Bloomington, IN

1994 Liquitex Excellence in Art Grant

1993 Frances Hook National Art Scholarship

FEATURED IN

International Artist, Evolution of the Self Portrait. Solo Feature article. Oct/Nov 2018

Americn Art Collector, Transformative Portraits. Solo Feature article. October 2018

Get Real: New American Painting. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville in partnership with the University of North Florida, 2014

100 Boston Painters. Edited by Chawky Frenn. Schiffer Publishing, 2011

Professional Artist Magazine, cover and feature. June 2011

Artpulse. Review of Separation Anxiety. Spring 2011

American Art Collector, Art Basel Selections. December 2010

Art Magazine, Charleston. 2010

New American Paintings, Western Edition 2009 and Mid-Atlantic Edition 2005 

American Art Collector, solo exhibition preview feature article. November 2009

Stacy Nick. Fort Collins Coloradoan, Ticket cover story, January 15, 2009

Jennifer Leigh Johnson. Northern Colorado GO, January 23-29, 2009

Susan Froyd. Westword, January 15-21, 2009 (Denver)

The Book of Sleep. Poems by Eleanor Stanford. Cover image. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008

Jessica Dawson. The Washington Post, October 26, 2007

Cate McQuaid. The Boston Globe, December 21, 2006

Ruth Latter. The Charlottesville Daily Progress, November 10, 2005

Laura Parsons. The Hook, November 2005 (Charlottesville)

Cate McQuaid. The Boston Globe, September 24,2004

Stuff at Night, September 28 – October 11 2004 (Boston)

Ron Hasson. The Charlottesville Observer, June 18, 2003

Ruth Latter. The Charlottesville Daily Progress, March 6, 2003

Reed Williams. The Charlottesville Daily Progress, April 25, 2002

Ruth Latter. The Charlottesville Daily Progress, May 2, 2002

Monica McTighe. C-ville Weekly, May 14-20, 2002

Liz Jessup. More! Monthly, June 2002

Ruth Latter. The Charlottesville Daily Progress, September 20, 2001

Aaron Steinberg. C-ville Weekly, September 18-24, 2001

Sonja Sinaswee. Trinidad Guardian, May 9, 2000

Trinidad Express, April 26, 2000

Trinidad Newsday, April 27, 2000

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

Rhodes Art Center, Northfield Mount Hermon School, MA

Bermudez, Trinidad, West Indies

Indiana University, Honors Division Collection, Bloomington, IN

EDUCATION

1997-1999 College of Fine Arts, Boston University. Boston, MA: MFA – Painting
1993-1995 Indiana University. Bloomington, IN: BFA – Painting
Vermont Studio Center, 1994 
Chautauqua Institution, 1993

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2011-2014 Instructor, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
- Drawing I, Drawing II
-Figure Drawing

2005-2006 Instructor of Drawing and Painting. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
- Introduction to Drawing 
- Elementary Theory of Painting II

2001-2005 Instructor of Drawing, Painting, and Design. Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA
- 2D Design Fundamentals
- Drawing I, Drawing II
- Painting I, Painting II, Advanced Painting Critique

1999-2000 US Fulbright Program, Fulbright Fellow to Trinidad & Tobago, Artist in Residence, Instructor, Independent Researcher, Creative Arts Center, University of the West Indies

1997-1999 Graduate Teaching Assistant. College of Fine Arts, Boston University, Boston, MA
- Drawing I
- Painting II
- Materials and Techniques of Painting


OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2018 Behind the Creative Eye. Lecture. OSHER Lifelong Learning Institute, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

2018 Women in Painting. Lunch lecture, Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO

2016 Portraiture. Lecture at Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO

2014 Women Painting.  Panel discussion in conjunction with Get Real exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL

2013 Women, Art, and Power Roundtable, Casper College Humanities Festival, Nicolaysen Artr Museum, Casper, WY

2013 Lecture. In conjunction with exhibition. Lincoln Center Art Gallery, Fort Collins, CO

2009 Visiting Artist. School of Fine Arts, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
- lecture, critique of undergraduate and graduate work during two-day visit

2009 Visiting Artist, Drawing Class. Department of Art, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  
-met with drawing classes during exhibition of my work at FCMOCA

2005, 2006, 2007, 2018 Visiting Artist. College of Fine Arts, Boston University, Boston, MA
- lectures, critiques of undergraduate work 
-served as visiting artist to study-abroad students in Tuscany, Italy