Working on Garden of Future Follies, 2016
Hadley Howes is an artist, scholar, educator, organizer, and member of a care collective in Tsi tkarón:to. Their research in abolitionist and artistic praxes is informed by their experience working with queer & trans social justice initiatives, creating art in public space, and their international exhibition history working in research-rich, site-responsive and multimedia installation. Hadley works with relational methodologies to configure artworks in collaboration with and response to people, places and histories. Through a critically engaged research practice, community outreach initiatives, and innovative production techniques, their artwork highlights the divergent journeys that inflect our interpretation of past, present and future histories.
Since 1999, Hadley has been exhibiting, publishing and performing across Turtle Island and at international venues including the 4th Marrakech Biennale, the 19th Biennale of Sydney, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, Seattle Art Museum, Mass MoCA, Kunstwerke Berlin, Witte de With Rotterdam, the Bergen Art Museum, and Le Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble. Hadley’s first permanent public commission, Garden of Future Follies, was commissioned by Waterfront Toronto and installed in Toronto’s Canary District in the spring of 2016. Since then, they have been dedicated to seeking out methods of working collectively, collaboratively, or in service to community groups, collective projects, anti-oppression movements and decolonizing initiatives.