Grace Lynne Haynes
Grace Lynne Haynes
Grace Lynne Haynes is a California born visual artist currently based in New Jersey. She creates lusciously composed paintings containing bright textures and patterns. Intricate moments are juxtaposed against flat, black swaths of paint shaped to represent black female bodies. The artist’s painterly devices lead the viewer to question the very nature of color and how historically symbolic meanings surrounding colors and shades, especially black, are constructed. In Haynes’s work, black appears aspirational, dignified, and sublime. The result is a network of images addressing complex topics and stereotypes surrounding black femininity.
Formally, Lynne is a master of color play and conveying textural details. In Mourning, a young woman lays lounging in luxuriously painted patterns against washes of color. Anticipation contains tender moments as the hands rest on swaths of delicately layered areas of patterning and puffy tufts of material that compose a sweater. You can almost feel how soft that sweater is.
Grace Lynne Haynes, an inaugural member of Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal residency, is included in the 2020 edition of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Art & Style. Her first Los Angeles solo exhibition is in March of 2020 at the Band of Vices Gallery, and she will follow it up with a solo exhibition at Luce Gallery in Italy this October.
Haynes has exhibited at the Ontario Museum of History and Art, Untitled Art Miami and Paul Robeson Gallery of Rutgers University, Newark. She was a selected artist in Daily Collector’s online article “20 Painter’s Who Are Shaping the Next Decade”, and her work has been published in New American Paintings, Creative Quarterly, and Culture Type.
Grace Lynne Haynes - Curriculum Vitae
B. Los Angeles, CA, lives & works in New Jersey
Education
2017 Art Center College of Design - BFA Illustration & Social Innovation Minor
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Band of Vices - “SHADES OF SUMMER”
2020 Luce Gallery (upcoming)
Group Exhibitions & Fairs
2020 Dakar Biennale (upcoming)
2020 Dallas Art Fair (upcoming)
2020 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair NY (upcoming)
2019 Untitled Art Fair Miami
2019 Paul Robeson Galleries “Black & White”
2019 The Other Art Fair
2019 Glass Rice “Line to the Girls”
2019 Band of Vices Group Exhibition
2019 Art Share LA Plus One Exhibit
2018 Ontario Museum of History and Art
2018 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
2017 New Image Art Gallery “Theresa Chromati’s: View From the Rooftop”
2017 HIVE Gallery “Feminine” Show
2017 South La Community Coalition “Re-Imagining Justice”
2016 Art Center College of Design’s “Fresh Eyes Cuba Installation Exhibit”
2016 Art Center College of Design’s Student Gallery
Publications
2020 Daily Collector’s “20 Painters Who Are Shaping The New Decade”
2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Art & Style
2020 New American Paintings Spring 2018 & 2020 Edition
2020 Creative Quarterly Issue 54
2020 The Wing Yearly Publication
2019 American Illustration 35 Annual & 36 Online Archive
2018 Fields Magazine
2016 El Camino Myriad
Residencies & Awards
2019 Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal Residency Inaugural Finalist
2019 House of Sedulo Artist in Residence
2018 Vermont Studio Center Residency Painting Fellowship Award
2018 Eastside International Residency
2018 Project Art Teaching & Social Impact Residency
2018 Los Feliz Charter School Artist in Residence
2018 World Learning Cultural Exchange Program Recipient
Select Private Collections
2020 Beth Rudin DeWoody (The Bunker Art Space)
2019 Kelley Williams (Board of the Smithsonian Museum)
2018 Jesse Willams
2018 Nina Chanel Abney
2018 Cheryl Riley & Courtney Sloane
2017 Mark Romanek
Bibliography
2020 Culture Type - Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal Announcement
2019 Voyage LA Artist Feature
2019 The Context Artist Feature
2018 Medium: An Interview w/ Grace Lynne Haynes
2017 Design Matters Student Spotlight
2016 Fashion Finishing School Artist Feature & Interview
Talks & Conferences
2018 Re-Constructing Practice ACCD Round Table Moderator
2018 AIGA Conference
2018 Open Engagement Guest Speaker
2017 Design Futures Conference
2017 Brioxy Leaders of Color Conference
2017 UI/UX Design Service Jam
2017 NAFKI Annual Science Conference
2016 KIPP Guest Speaker