Sharon Hayes (1970, Baltimore. Lives in Philadelphia) works with video, performance, sound, and public sculpture to reveal intersections between history, discourse, and social resistance, deconstructing historical narratives and reopening pathways to alternative understandings of the present. Her practice investigates the linguistic, affective, and sonic grammars that shape processes of dissent. Hayes has exhibited at the New Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and participated in the 55th Venice Biennale.