BIO:
Khae Haskell is an interdisciplinary visual artist, draftsperson, and illustrator. Haskell has shown in a variety of venues throughout New York, including Established Gallery, The Governors Island Art Fair, The Old Stone House, The Other Art Fair, and Trestle Gallery. They received their MFA in Visual Art at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and their BA in Communications Design at Marymount Manhattan College. Haskell was awarded residencies at ChaShaMa North Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, and completed an art handling apprenticeship in the Crozier Fine Arts Apprenticeship Program. They have self published two books of their Decomposed drawings and are currently working on a book of their Flourished drawings. Haskell was recently awarded the Young Talent Award by the Affordable Art Fair and Arts Gowanus. They will be executing a site specific installation accompanied by a solo exhibition during the Affordable Art Fair in New York in March.
Haskell’s Pronouns are They, Them, Theirs.
STATEMENT:
My making begins with a natural treasure hunt of the world around me. I often become a watcher, an observer, sometimes feeling like a voyeuristic outsider searching for the inspiration that presents itself throughout my path of travel. My inspiration often navigates throughout the unwanted elements of nature while making brief visits within the desired ones. I am in awe of the things you don’t want to see as well as the items that are considered attractive. Imagery of decomposing animal flesh, rotting vegetation, blossoming botanicals, textures on tree bark and oyster shells; these are some of the components that prompt my visual language. I receive these optical specimens and transform them in a manner that is slightly tolerable to experience, almost to the point of gratification. The transformation typically begins with delicately rendered pen and ink graphic drawings on paper and translucent media. The drawings are produced with elegance which in turn allows them to live on the aesthetic plane. Some of my studies are broken down into abstracted versions executed through site specific installations and collages.
These works exist as two series that connect; Decomposed and Flourished, both series are observations of the various stages and occurrences of natural life rendered through many variations of the act of drawing.
Collage pieces, studio view, 2022.
CV
Khae Haskell (b.Boston 1983, USA)
www.khaskell.com
Gender Pronouns: They, Them, Theirs
Education
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, MFA Visual Art, 2020
Marymount Manhattan College, Bachelor of Art/Communications Design, 2005 Cum Laude
Select Solo Exhibitions
2023 Effloresce, Affordable Art Fair, NYC
2022 Flourish/Fester, Established Gallery, Brooklyn
2020 Decomposed, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn
2011 The Debutante Ball, 17 Frost Gallery, Brooklyn
2007 Endangered, The Gershwin Hotel, NYC
2005 Untitled Solo Exhibit, Midoma Gallery, NYC
2005 WILD, The Black and White Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, NYC
Select Group Exhibitions
2023 Hybridity, Ante Curatorial,The Yard, Brooklyn
2022 Warm Wishes, Established Gallery, Brooklyn
Off The Wall, Culture Lab, Long Island City, NYC
Investigations, Hewitt Gallery of Art, NYC
Welcome Home, Mojo Supermarket Gallery, Brooklyn
Re-Imagining Rural, Chashama, Brooklyn
Bloom, R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Louisiana
The Other Art Fair, Knockdown Center, NYC
2021 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn Expo Center, Brooklyn
Gowanus Night Heron Case Study, TI Art Studios, Brooklyn
Just Like Real Life, MASS ARTxSOWA, Boston, MA
Emergence, BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY
Nature Contained, Old Stone House, Brooklyn
Gowanus Night Heron, Rabbit Mover’s Parking Lot, Brooklyn
2020 The SHIM Master’s Show, SHIM Art Network, NYC
Drawings In A Time Of Social Distancing, Long Island City Artists, Queens
Well Being, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
Bird, Nest, Nature, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Untitled Group Exhibition (Upcoming), Old Stone House, Brooklyn
Massart Masters, Scollay Square Gallery, City Hall, Boston
Altered States, Pleides Gallery, NYC
Happy New Fear, Friday Gallery, Brooklyn
2019 Vision Quest, Artspace Gallery, Hartford, CT
Synapses, Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, NYC
The Fridge Art Fair, NU Hotel, Brooklyn
On Site, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn
Artworks, Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn
Processing, The Old Stone House, Brooklyn
2018 On Site, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn
Sequence, Gowanus Swim Society Mobile Gallery, Brooklyn
South Brooklyn Open Studios, Trestle Art Space, Brooklyn
Creature, LIC Arts Open Gallery, Queens
Sugar Is Sweet: A pop up for the Caribbean, Nu Hotel, Brooklyn
Artworks, Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn
2017 Gowanus Emeritus, 313 Butler Gallery, Brooklyn
Good-Buy Gowanus, Mobile exhibit for Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn
Sunset Open Studios, Trestle Art Space, Brooklyn
ArtWorks, Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn
2016 Art Works, The Gowanus Loft, Brooklyn
Rally: Queer Art and Activism Now, Dixon Place, New York
The Creative Climate Awards, Human Impacts Institute, New York
Alumni Show, Hewitt Gallery of Art Marymount Manhattan College , New York
Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn Art Space
The Peoples Choice, The Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn
2015 Telestrations, Halyards, Brooklyn
Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn Art Space
Mini Matisse, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn
Gowanus Marketplace, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn
Alumni Show, Hewitt Gallery of Art ,Marymount Manhattan College, New York
ArtWorks, Site:Brooklyn
Awards and Residencies
Affordable Art Fair Young Talent Award, 2023
Urban Glass Scholarship, Intro to Neon, Winter 2023
Vermont Studio Center Residency, May 2022
Chashama North Artist Residency, June 2021
Crozier Fine Arts Apprenticeship Program, Winter/Spring 2021