Cosby Hayes

Cosby Hayes

Cosbyhayes@gmail.com

 8509330651

   912 Delores Drive, Tallahassee, FL, 32301

My work employs recognizable imagery from multiple eras spanning centuries, woven together as a personal narrative. I reference historical imagery from movements and cultures that never encountered one another, yet through them, a common thread is found.

Using architecture and symbolism through a lens that references the aggressive and sometimes audacious nature of graffiti.   I explore the need to enshrine one’s existence as it fosters creativity, individualism, and the attempt at immortality.

There is a desire to be noticed or remembered through an idolized infamy, which leads many to vandalize and destroy in the name of one’s altar ego. My work aims to harness this vandalistic mentality in an attempt to explore the innumerable styles and techniques used throughout time to make one’s mark on the world.

I aim to provoke the viewer to search for some resolution within my work when comparing current and past cultural phenomena.

The figures I paint initiate a visual dialogue with regards to Man’s primeval struggle and search for an existence beyond his physical limitations, no matter the cost. A declaration: “I was Here.”

Cosby Hayes

 

850.933.0651

5430 Lawton Ct. Tallahassee, Florida. 32317

cosbyhayes@gmail.com

 

 

Education________________________________________________________

 

Florida State University: Tallahassee, Florida, May 2014

Bachelor of Fine Art in Studio Art

 

Relevant Experience_______________________________________________

 

iGrow Community Garden: Tallahassee, FL

Artist, April 2014

  • Collaborated with local residents of Tallahassee’s lower income community to design and paint a mural with children from the surrounding neighborhoods during a spring gardening festival

 

KCCI 2017 Catalyst Member: Tallahassee, FL

 

 

Exhibitions_______________________________________________________

 

2012            Stuart Riordan Retrospective, TCC Fine Art Gallery, Tallahassee, FL (featured guest artist)

 

2012            It’s Political, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL (juried exhibition)

 

2013            25th Art in Gadsden, Gadsden Art Center, Quincy FL (juried exhibition)

 

2014            BFA Thesis Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

 

2014             Shift: Emerging Artists from Florida State University, Thomas Dean Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (pop-up group Exhibition)

 

2015            Views From The Otherside, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL, Solo Exhibition.

 

2015            Average Joe Group Exhibition, Concrete Beach Brewery, Miami Florida, Currated by Yo-Miami.

 

2016             5TH Annual Paint Me Miami, Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami Florida, Juried Group Exhibition

 

2016            2ND Biannual Perez Art Museum Miami Staff Art Exhibit, University of Miami Gallery, Miami Florida

 

2016            [NON] Organico (Mural Exhibition), ‘ACE Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

 

 

Curated Exhibitions_______________________________________________

 

2012            Gutter Lords, Renditions Gallery, Tallahassee, FL (collaborative/group Exhibition showcasing local graffiti artists’ shift into the Fine Art World)

 

2015            Works by Cosby Hayes and Kemeys Goethe at One Spark 2015, Burrito Gallery, Jacksonville, FL

 

 

Residency______________________________________________________

 

2016                                     Resident Artist at Yo Space Galley and Artist Studio, Miami Florida

 

           

2016                                     Proyecto ‘ACE, Artist in Residence Program, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

 

 

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