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.

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Exhibitions

Oct 2023 – Feb 2024 Group Show Airspace

Jan 05 – Feb 16, 2018 Cameron Hayes Cameron Hayes

Apr 01 – May 06, 2011 Cameron Hayes Tattles

Nov 21 – Dec 22, 2008 Group Show Drawing Review: 37 Years of Works on Paper

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Cameron Hayes

Before There were Laws for Corporate Pedophilia, 2003

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Before There were Laws for Corporate Pedophilia, 2003

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When the Rain Came the Terrorists Didn't Know Which Way Was Up, 1999

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Mengele in Argentina, 2002-2003

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In the End Pavlov Saw Only Bells and Saliva, 2007

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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

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