Donte K. Hayes

Finding myself in the Bermuda Triangle, 2015, 1/4 Edition

Linoleum Relief Print on BFK Rives Printmaking Paper

12 x 10 inches; framed: 17 x 15 inches

Courtesy of the artist

www.dontekhayes.com, @dontekhayes

Donte K. Hayes graduated summa cum laude from Kennesaw State University with a BFA in Ceramics and Printmaking with an art history minor. Donte received his MA and MFA with honors from the University of Iowa and is the 2017 recipient of the University of Iowa Arts Fellowship. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane, The Gibbes Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Newark Museum of Art, Wellin Museum of Art, Stanley Museum of Art, Des Moines Art Center, and the Institute Museum of Ghana, Accra, Ghana among others. Donte was awarded a prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant Award in 2022. He is also a 2019 Ceramics Monthly Magazine Emerging Artists and Artaxis Fellow. Hayes has been in residence at MacDowell, Bemis Center, Township 10, Marshall, Penland School of Craft, Hambidge Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts. Donte is the 2019 winner of the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern art from the Gibbes Museum of Art.