(born 1970 in Baltimore, MD; lives and works in New York)
Sharon Hayes is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes performance and video. In her performance at the New Museum in late 2007, “I march in the parade of liberty, but as long as I love you I’m not free,” she confronted the conflict between the public and the private by reciting a letter to her lover about the war in Iraq through a megaphone outside the museum. Last year, she participated in Creative Time’s “Democracy in America: The National Campaign,” enlisting over 100 people at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions to read a text addressing political desire and romantic love to forefront the LGBT movement. Her work has been exhibited in major institutions worldwide including P.S.1 in New York and the Tate Modern.
