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Cameron Hayes ![Hayes Helen Keller Annie Sullivan Phiz And Mark Twain The Day Helen Keller Realised Everything Had A Word 2006](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/2510/Hayes-Helen-Keller-Annie-Sullivan-Phiz-and-Mark-Twain-the-Day-Helen-Keller-Realised-Everything-Had-a-Word-2006.jpg) Cameron Hayes Hellen Keller, Annie Sullivan, Phiz and Mark Twain the Day Helen Keller Realised Everything Had a Word, 2006 Biography Australian painter Cameron Hayes creates densely populated, dystopian worlds that call to mind the grotesquerie of Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights—but Hayes’ scenes address the modern world. Hayes blends stories ripped from present-day headlines and fictional themes, in effect producing paintings filled with charged contemporary subjects: pollution, political corruption and terrorism, economic inequality, and the sexualization of children in the media. One of his most controversial series centered on the Australian Aboriginal community of Tiwi Island, which Hayes painted in his signature, unsettling style, populating landscapes with graffiti and squalor; the show was cancelled amid public outcry, before being hosted elsewhere. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View CV ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/artistCV/hayes_bio_new_190508_153553.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Packet ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/hayes_Selected-Press.pdf) Exhibitions [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Warhol-Moonwalk-pink-1987.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/348-group-exhibition-airspace) Oct 2023 – Feb 2024 Group Show [ Airspace ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/348-group-exhibition-airspace) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Hayes/2018-Hayes/postcard-image_Hayes-resize.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/331-cameron-hayes-1-6-2-17-2018) Jan 05 – Feb 16, 2018 Cameron Hayes [ Cameron Hayes ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/331-cameron-hayes-1-6-2-17-2018) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Hayes-Orphanages-Make-the-Best-Skyscrapers-detailA-2011.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/290-tattles-hayes-4-2-5-7-2011) Apr 01 – May 06, 2011 Cameron Hayes [ Tattles ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/290-tattles-hayes-4-2-5-7-2011) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Group/2008-drawing/Golub-Dog-Fight-1994.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/270-drawing-review-group-11-22-12-23-2008) Nov 21 – Dec 22, 2008 Group Show [ Drawing Review: 37 Years of Works on Paper ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/270-drawing-review-group-11-22-12-23-2008) [See All Exhibitions ](/past_exhibitions/cameron-hayes) ![Hayes Before There Were Laws For Corporate Pedophilia 2003](/assets/artist_images/Hayes-Before-There-Were-Laws-for-Corporate-Pedophilia-2003.JPG) Cameron Hayes Before There were Laws for Corporate Pedophilia, 2003 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Hayes Before There Were Laws For Corporate Pedophilia 2003]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cameron Hayes Before There were Laws for Corporate Pedophilia, 2003 oil and linen ![Hayes When The Rain Came The Terrorists Didnt Know Which Way Was Up 1999]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cameron Hayes When the Rain Came the Terrorists Didn't Know Which Way Was Up, 1999 oil on linen ![Hayes Mengele In Argentina 2002 2003]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cameron Hayes Mengele in Argentina, 2002-2003 oil on linen ![Hayes In The End Pavlov 2007]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cameron Hayes In the End Pavlov Saw Only Bells and Saliva, 2007 oil on linen ![Hayes The Russians Knew Perfectly Well 2007]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cameron Hayes The Russians Knew Perfectly Well That the Happiness of the African Animals Was That They Had Such Low Expectations before the Pets Were Introduced, 2007 oil on linen ![Hayes The Race To Be The First Celebrity Jack The Ripper Versus The Elephant Man 2011]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cameron Hayes The Race to Be the First Celebrity: Jack the Ripper versus the Elephant Man, 2011 oil on linen ![Hayes Orphanages Make The Best Skyscrapers 2011]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cameron Hayes Orphanages Make the Best Skyscrapers, 2011 oil on linen ![Hayes North Gallery Installation View 3](/assets/exhibition_images/Hayes-North-Gallery-installation-view-3.jpg) Cameron Hayes, 2008 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Hayes North Gallery Installation View 3]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cameron Hayes, 2008 installation view ![Hayes South Gallery Installation View 6 2008]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cameron Hayes, 2008 installation view ![Hayes South Gallery Installation View 2 2008 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cameron Hayes, 2008 installation view ![Hayes Installation Shot 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Tattles, 2011 installation view ![Hayes Installation Shot 2]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Tattles, 2011 installation view ![Hayes North Gallery Installation View 3](/assets/exhibition_images/Hayes-North-Gallery-installation-view-3.jpg) ![Hayes South Gallery Installation View 6 2008](/assets/exhibition_images/Hayes-South-Gallery-Installation-view-6-2008.jpg) ![Hayes South Gallery Installation View 2 2008 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Hayes-South-Gallery-Installation-view-2-2008_1.jpg) ![Hayes Installation Shot 1](/assets/exhibition_images/Hayes/2011-Tattles/Hayes-Installation-Shot-1.JPG) ![Hayes Installation Shot 2](/assets/exhibition_images/Hayes/2011-Tattles/Hayes-Installation-Shot-2.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Hayes North Gallery Installation View 3]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cameron Hayes, 2008 installation view ![Hayes South Gallery Installation View 6 2008]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cameron Hayes, 2008 installation view ![Hayes South Gallery Installation View 2 2008 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Cameron Hayes, 2008 installation view ![Hayes Installation Shot 1]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Tattles, 2011 installation view ![Hayes Installation Shot 2]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Tattles, 2011 installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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