{{Short description|American painter (born 1947)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox artist | name = Nancy Haynes | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1947}} | birth_place = Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | known_for = Painting | training = | movement = | notable_works = | patrons = | awards = }} thumb|Nancy Haynes, ''Edward Said (from the library)'', 2019, Oil on linen, 11 × 14 × 2 inches, (28 × 35.6 × 5 cm)
'''Nancy Haynes''' (born 1947) is an American artist and educator. She lives between New York City, and Huerfano County, Colorado.
== Early life == Nancy Haynes was born in 1947, in Waterbury, Connecticut.{{r|metmuseum1}}<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Modern_and_Contemporary_Art_at_Dartmouth/zYUchmXTDxUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Nancy+Haynes+1947&pg=PA75&printsec=frontcover |title=Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art |date=2009 |publisher=Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College |isbn=978-1-58465-786-6 |editor-last=Kennedy |editor-first=Brian P. |pages=75 |language=en |editor-last2=Burke |editor-first2=Emily S.}}</ref>
== Paintings == Haynes is a conceptual artist.<ref>{{cite web|last=Nackman|first=Rachel|title=Rachel Nackman on Nancy Haynes|url=http://www.artequalstext.com/rachel-nackman-on-nancy-haynes/}}</ref> Her art-historical influences cite Marcel Duchamp, Mondrian, Dan Flavin, On Kawara and Ad Reinhardt, but as Marjorie Welish noted in her essay, “Nancy Haynes, A Literature of Silence”, Haynes’ also has influences from literature.{{Citation needed|date=April 2026}}
In Haynes’ recent paintings, the canvases began to “evolve from a paler shade of a given pigment to a darker one, creating a horizontal movement that pulls the eye toward an unseen source of light.”<ref>{{cite web|last=Muchnic|first=Suzanne|url=http://www.georgelawsongallery.com/artists/n_haynes_writing.html|title=Nancy Haynes Writing|publisher=ArtNews}}</ref>
More notable works include her autobiographical color charts series (2005–2013), which employ swatches of color contained within grids, meant to give an autobiography of the artist.
==Exhibitions==
Haynes began exhibiting her work in the late 1970s and has since held numerous solo exhibitions. Selected solo exhibitions are below:
* ''Compressing Light'', Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany, 2025{{r|galeriethomasschulte1}} * ''A madeleine dipped in ink'', Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria, 2022{{r|galeriewinter2022}} * ''Paintings: to the poets'', Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria, 2017{{r|galeriewinter2017}} * ''Nancy Haynes: this painting oil on linen'', Regina Rex, New York, 2017{{r|hyperallergic1}}{{r|reginarex2017}} * ''Nancy Haynes: anomalies and non sequiturs'', Regina Rex, New York, 2015{{r|artnews1}}{{r|reginarex2015}} * ''Nancy Haynes: Recent Paintings'', George Lawson Gallery, Los Angeles, 2012{{r|latimes1}} * ''Selected Small Paintings'', George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, 2020{{r|sfgate1}} * ''Dissolution'', Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, 2009{{r|nytimes1}} * ''Nancy Haynes'', Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria, 2006{{r|galeriewinter2006}} * ''Nancy Haynes'', Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria, 2002{{r|galeriewinter2002}} * ''Between Two Appearances'', Stark Gallery, New York, 2000{{additional citation needed|date=February 2025}} * ''Nancy Haynes'', Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria, 1998{{r|galeriewinter1998}}
==Teaching and lectures==
In addition to her painting career, Haynes has contributed to the academic field through teaching and lectures.{{r|galeriethomasschulte1}} She served as a visiting lecturer at Princeton University in 2000 and lectured at the Carpenter Center at Harvard University in 1992.{{Citation needed|date=April 2026}} From 1986 to 1989, she was an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College in New York.{{Citation needed|date=April 2026}}
==Awards==
Haynes has been awarded by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1995, The National Endowment for the Arts in 1987 and again in 1990, and the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1987.{{Citation needed|date=April 2026}}
== Public collections ==
Her work is included in museum collections, including: *Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York{{r|metmuseum1}} *Museum of Modern Art in New York{{r|moma1}} *Whitney Museum of American Art in New York{{r|whitney1}} *Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York{{r|brooklynmuseum1}} *Hood Museum of Art in Dartmouth, NH{{r|hoodmuseum1}}{{r|dartmouth1}} *Addison Gallery of American Art at the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA{{r|agaa1}} *Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware{{r|dam1}} *Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, Netherlands{{r|bonnefanten1}} *Kunstmuseum Den Haag at The Hague, Netherlands{{additional citation needed|date=February 2025}} *National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.{{r|nga1}} *Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX{{r|mfa1}} *Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC{{r|ackland1}} *Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA{{additional citation needed|date=February 2025}} *Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA{{r|ram1}} *Harvard Art Museums at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA{{r|fogg1}} *Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA{{r|davis1}} *UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA{{r|uclahammer1}}
==References== {{reflist|refs=
<ref name=ackland1>{{Cite web |url=https://ackland.emuseum.com/objects/2581/untitled |title= Nancy Haynes |date= 1990 |publisher= The Metropolitan Museum of Art |website= Acland.emuseum.com |access-date= February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=agaa1>{{Cite web |url= https://addison.andover.edu/search-the-collection/?embark_query=/objects-1/portfolio?records=10&query=mfs%20all%20%22Nancy%20Haynes%22&sort=9&searching=Nancy%20Haynes |title= Nancy Haynes |publisher= Addison Gallery of American Art |website= Addison.andover.edu |access-date= February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=artnews1>{{Cite web |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/nancy-haynes-at-regina-rex-4004/ |last=Maine |first=Stephen |title=Nancy Haynes at Regina Rex |date=April 27, 2015 |publisher=ARTnews |website=artnews.com |access-date= February 28, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=bonnefanten1>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bonnefanten.nl/en/search?SearchableText=Nancy+Haynes&Language=en&portal_type=artwork24411 |title=Untitled |publisher=Bonnefantenmuseum |website=bonnefanten.nl |access-date=February 27, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=brooklynmuseum1>{{Cite web |url= https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/124411|title= Untitled |date=1986 |publisher= Brooklyn Museum |website= brooklynmuseum.org |access-date= February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=dam1>{{Cite web |url= https://emuseum.delart.org/people/5587/nancy-haynes/objects |title= Nancy Haynes |publisher= The Delaware Art Museum |website= delart.org |access-date= February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=dartmouth1>{{cite book |url= https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/explore/print-archive/modern-and-contemporary-art-dartmouth-highlights-hood-museum-art |last1=Kennedy |first1=Brian P. |last2=Shubert Burke |first2=Emily |author-link= |date=January 1, 2009 |title=Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art |publisher= Hood Museum of Art Dartmouth College and the University Press of New England |page=240 |isbn=1584657863 |access-date=February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=davis1>{{Cite web |url= https://davis.emuseum.com/objects/9606/untitled?ctx=4ddcbc6ef56ceda589d3ceca09cba5ef67c25f62&idx=0 |title= Nancy Haynes |publisher= Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |website= davis.emuseum.com |access-date= February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=fogg1>{{Cite web |url= https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections |title= Nancy Haynes |publisher= The Harvard Art Museums |website= harvardartmuseums.org |access-date= February 26, 2025}}</ref> <ref name=galeriewinter1998>{{Cite web |url= https://www.galeriewinter.at/en/exhibitions/1982-1998/nancy-haynes/ |title= Nancy Haynes |website= galeriewinter.at}}</ref>
<ref name=galeriewinter2002>{{Cite web |url= https://www.galeriewinter.at/en/exhibitions/haynes2002/ |title=Nancy Haynes |website= galeriewinter.at}}</ref>
<ref name=galeriewinter2006>{{Cite web |url= https://www.galeriewinter.at/en/exhibitions/haynes2006/ |title=Nancy Haynes |website= galeriewinter.at}}</ref>
<ref name=galeriewinter2017>{{Cite web |url= https://www.galeriewinter.at/en/exhibitions/nancy-haynes-to-the-poets/ |title= paintings: to the poets |website= galeriewinter.at }}</ref>
<ref name=galeriewinter2022>{{Cite web |url= https://www.galeriewinter.at/en/exhibitions/nancy-haynes-a-madeleine-dipped-in-ink/ |last=Hussey |first=Miciah |title=a madeleine dipped in ink |website= galeriewinter.at }}</ref>
<ref name=galeriethomasschulte1>{{Cite web |url= https://www.galeriethomasschulte.com/exhibitions/181-compressing-light-nancy-haynes/ |title=Compressing Light |website= galeriethomasschulte.com}}</ref>
<ref name=hoodmuseum1>{{Cite web |url= https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/search-collections?on_view_only=0&photos_only=0&downloads_only=0&artist=Nancy%20Haynes&orderby=early_date |title=Nancy Haynes |publisher=Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, NH |website=hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/ |access-date=February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=hyperallergic1>{{Cite web |url= https://hyperallergic.com/374118/nancy-haynes-this-painting-oil-on-linen-regina-rex-2017/ |last=Yau |first=John |title= Nancy Haynes Invites Us to Look Closely |date=April 23, 2017 |publisher= |website= Hyperallergic |access-date= February 27, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=latimes1>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2012-oct-22-la-et-cm-nancy-haynes-review-20121015-story.html |title= Art Review: The Sensual Intelligence of Nancy Haynes |last= Ollman |first= Leah |publisher= |date= October 22, 2012 |website= Los Angeles Times |access-date= February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=metmuseum1>{{Cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/633000 |title= Nancy Haynes - Once |last= Bunker |first= John |publisher= |date= 1990 |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date= February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=mfa1>{{Cite web |url= https://emuseum.mfah.org/people/6179/nancy-haynes/objects |title= Nancy Haynes |publisher= |website= Metropolitan Museum of Art|access-date= February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=moma1>{{Cite web |url=http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/22738?locale=en |title= Nancy Haynes, Untitled (TC/NH 1/94 #A07) |publisher= |date= 1994 |website= Museum of Modern Art, New York |access-date= February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=nga1>{{Cite web |url= https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.6841.html |title= Nancy Haynes |publisher= National Gallery of Art |date= December 7, 2018 |website= nga.gov |access-date= February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=nytimes1>{{Cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE4D91530F935A35750C0A96F9C8B63 |last=Johnson |first=Ken |date=March 6, 2009 |title=Nancy Haynes: Dissolution |website=archive.nytimes.com |access-date=February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=ram1>{{Cite web |url= https://rosecollection.brandeis.edu/objects-1/thumbnails?records=60&query=Artist_Maker%3D%222306%22 |title= Nancy Haynes |publisher= The Rose Art Museum |website= rosecollection.brandeis.edu |access-date= February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=reginarex2015>{{Cite web |url= http://reginarex.org/exhibition.asp?exID=551&img= |title=Nancy Haynes: anomalies and non sequiturs |website= reginarex.org}}</ref>
<ref name=reginarex2017>{{Cite web |url= http://reginarex.org/exhibition.asp?exid=576 |title=Nancy Haynes: this painting oil on linen |website= reginarex.org}}</ref>
<ref name=sfgate1>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Haynes-is-worth-getting-to-know-3188621.php |last=Baker |first=Kenneth |date=May 15, 2010 |title=Haynes is Worth Getting to Know |website=SFGate.com |access-date= February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=uclahammer1>{{Cite web |url= https://collections.hammer.ucla.edu/search?artworks[query]=Nancy%20Haynes |title= Nancy Haynes |publisher= |website= Hammer Museum |access-date=February 26, 2025}}</ref>
<ref name=whitney1>{{Cite web |url=https://whitney.org/collection/works/10951 |title= Nancy Haynes, Untitled |publisher= |date= 1989 |website= Whitney Museum of American Art |access-date= February 26, 2025}}</ref>
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== External links == *[http://www.artequalstext.com/rachel-nackman-on-nancy-haynes/ Rachel Nackman on Nancy Haynes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180306083225/http://www.artequalstext.com/rachel-nackman-on-nancy-haynes/ |date=2018-03-06 }} *[http://staging.artequalstext.com/elizabeth-donato-on-nancy-haynes/ Elizabeth Donato on Nancy Haynes] *[http://nancyhaynes.net/home_files/Haynes%20overview.pdf Overview of Nancy Haynes Work]
==Further reading== * {{cite book |last=Riley |first=Charles A. |date=1998 |title=The Saints of Modern Art: The Ascetic Ideal in Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Music, Dance, Literature, and Philosophy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tTk5LqMgnZAC&pg=PA101 |publisher=University Press of New England |pages=101–103 |isbn=978-0-87451-765-1}}
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