Sylvie Hayes-Wallace

Sylvie Hayes-Wallace’s sculptural practice explores the confinements of the self in its thoughts, feelings, and the body as a barrier between the inner self and exterior world. Mapping out interior and outer existence, she pulls from an ever-evolving personal archive of markers of time, belongings, notes, and ephemera. Guided by the measurements of her own body, she incorporates these archives into wire and glass cages, curtains, columns, and collages that create a complex self-portrait without being representational. By taking inventory of the self, Hayes-Wallace attempts to understand, organize, and contain the chaos of the mind by mirroring the precarious constructs of our interior world and exterior surroundings. 

Sylvie Hayes-Wallace (b. 1994, Cincinnati, Ohio) lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. She has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Silke Lindner, New York, NY (2024); Chapter NY, New York, NY (2024); In Extenso, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2023); A.D. Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Bad Water, Knoxville, TN (2022); and Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY (2021), among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Galerie Eli Kerr, Montréal, Canada (2026), Paulina Caspari, Munich (2025), White Columns, New York (2025), Rose Easton, London (2024), Chapter NY, New York, NY (2023), Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY (2022), and King’s Leap, New York, NY (2021), among others.