Hugh Hayden

Hugh Hayden (b.1983, United States of America) worked for a decade as an architect before becoming a full‐time sculptor. He has said that his art “asks the viewer to examine their place within the ever-shifting ecosystem that is the American Dream, an environment that is both seductive and threatening.”

Recent solo exhibitions include Huff and a Puff at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (2023), Lincoln, Massachusetts; Brier Patch at the Madison Square Park Conservancy (2022), New York City; and Boogey Men at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (2021). His work is held in numerous public collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

For Ground/work 2025, Hugh Hayden created the End, a massive upside‐down ribcage out of hemlock trees harvested from a forest near the Clark's campus. The skeletal form suggests a remnant of some giant's life (its race cannot be identified from the bones).