Roger Hayes - email at: rehsll@gmail.com, or sally.roger@seasurf.net

Born (1962) and raised in Detroit, Michigan. Attended graphic art courses at the Center for Creative Studies, 1978 - 1981.
Found my way into the then International Neo-Expressionist movement with a heavy emphasis on the narrative figurative. Showed in alternative space galleries in Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus.
Moved to the west coast and left a void behind that soon became filled with controversy. Works submitted to the heavily media-picketed Fear No Art exhibit in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which instantaneously became notorized by Right-wing picketers, the daily Detroit Free Press and nightly television. The event was noted in a October 15 1990 Newsweek article on obscenity within the then current context of Robert Maplethorpe and Jesse Helms, and two of my pieces were sited for their edgy content. An exhibit at Ann Arbor's 111 Art was viewed by the wife of Jimmy Carter's cabinet minister Zbignew Breszinski, who was then curator of Eastern European art in Washington D.C., with entourage. She had been in Ann Arbor debuting a new collection of Eastern Bloc Art at the University of Michigan. She was infuriated at my show and as a result the show was closed by the police 3 days later.
Teaming up with Jacques Karamanoukian in 1987 caused my work to focus on the influence of Art Brut. Before long my work was exported to France and shows on the continent started coming in. I first exhibited at the Galerie Meduane, in Laval, France in 1988. In 1999 I was fortunate to be one of a small group of American artists invited to exhibit at one of Europe's foremost Outsider/ Art Brut venues, Halle St. Pierre, in the heart of Paris, located just below the Sacre-Coeur. I maintained this association through the early years of the 21st century, and was able to have my works located in the Musee de L'Art Brut, in Lausanne, Switzerland, as well as in the Creation de L'art Franche, in Begles, France.

Statement:

There's already a surfeit of reality around us; as an artist, why would I want to produce more?
The "accidental" by far parallels "reality" in a much more accurate way. I prefer a series of events, that define, loosely, the circumstances of a painting session.
The painting is an arena, the "ring" in which the contestants, the paint and the artist, fight it out, or dance.
I can't imagine any other definition.


Roger Hayes: Resume


Solo Shows

2007 Cassidy's, Portland, OR
2005 Astoria Visual Arts Gallery, Astoria, OR
Zeitgeist Gallery, Detroit, MI
1993 Red Eye Books, Saint Claire Shores, MI
Galerie Jacques, Ann Arbor, MI
1990 Le Minotaure Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
1989 111 Art, Ann Arbor, MI
1988 Acme Art, Columbus, OH
1987 Sheldon Ross Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1985 Race Street Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI

Group Shows

2008 Oregon State Fair, Salem, OR
Behavioral Health at AVA Gallery, (juror), Astoria, OR
10 X 10, Riversea Gallery, Astoria, OR
Roger Hayes Invitational, Cannon Beach Arts Association, CB, and Astoria, OR
Cannon Beach Group Show, CB, OR
Gallery L'une, Manzanita, OR
2007 Astoria Artists at Cassidy's, Portland, OR
2006 Astoria Visual Arts Group Shows, Astoria, OR
2005 Northwest Invitational, Oregon State University, Eugene, OR
2004 Roger Hayes and Friends, AVA Gallery, Astoria, OR
2003 The Zeitgeist, Portland, OR
Not of This World, SAW, Seattle, WA
Next Now, PSU Littman Gallery, Portland, OR


Nocturnal Visions, The Modern Zoo, Portland, OR
Paris/Berlin, with Nick Knapton, Alderbrook Station, Astoria, OR
2002 Visitations, with Sally Lackaff, AVA Gallery, Astoria, OR
Three Painters, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR
2001 World Trade Center Response, AVA Gallery, Astoria, OR
Drawing Show, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR
Zeitgeist Benefit Exhibit, Zeitgeist Gallery, Detroit, MI
Galerie Scavongelli, Paris, France
2000 Espace Galerie Meduane, Laval, France
Galerie Halle St. Pierre, Paris, France
1999 Dionysos a Paris, Meteques et Exiles, Galerie Halle St. Pierre, Paris, France
1998 Elkerr/Hayes, Zeitgeist Gallery, Detroit, MI
Group Show, Riversea Gallery, Astoria, OR
1996 Palace Gallery, Portland, OR
Art Space, Bay City, OR
Warrenton Arts Council, Warrenton, OR
Works on Spartina Paper, Moby Dick Hotel, Nahcotta, WA
1995 Palace Gallery, Portland, OR
Tango Exposition D'Art Postal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Black and White Works, Ricciardi Gallery, Astoria, OR
1993 Group Show, Galerie Scavongelli, Paris, France
Galeria Biegas, Detroit, MI
Red Eye Books, Saint Claire Shores, MI
1992 Palace Gallery, Portland, OR
Culture Shock Gallery, Portland, OR
Ten on the Edge, Ricciardi Gallery, Astoria, OR
Group Show, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR
1991 Group Show, Art Space, Bay City, OR
1990 Benefit For Armenian Earthquake Survivors, Ann Arbor, MI
1989 Fear No Art, 111 Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Blue Gallery, Portland, OR
ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
C.A.G.E., Cinncinati, OH
Galerie Jacques, Ann Arbor, MI
Group Show, Galerie Meduane, Laval, France
1987 Kresge Art Museum, 1986 Grant Recipient Exhibit, East Lansing, MI
Michigan Council For The Arts, Grant Recipient Exhibit, Detroit, MI
Artists in Action, Henry Ford Centennial Library, Dearborn, MI
1986 Lucas, Hayes, Owens, Spaces, Cleveland, OH
1984 Detroit Focus, Detroit, MI
1983 Detroit, Focus Detroit, MI
1982 Detroit Focus, Detroit, MI

Awards

1986 Creative Artist Grant, Michigan Council For The Arts

Collections

Art Brut Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
Estate of Jacques Karamanoukian, Paris, France
Creation de la Franche, Begles, France
Yoko Adachi, Tokyo, Japan

Publications

Red Red, Limited Edition Serigraph Book, Berlin, Germany
A Contre Silence, In memory of Gilles Pajot, Paris, France
Decharge, Paris, France
Newsweek, The Arts, Mixed Signals on Obscenity, October 15, 1990