Biography

Hayley Chi Hay Chiu (b. 2001) is a second-generation Chinese Canadian painter based in Toronto. She specializes in oil painting and has a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University (2023).
Hayley documents a journey of continuous becoming and the search for “home”, retelling her world with fables and fantasy. Her work is characterized by surreal depictions of the body and its environment, feelings of in-betweenness and desire, and imagery from her heritage that she was never fully part of. Combining realism with overtly overlaid images, she breaks any illusion that her paintings are direct representations of reality, but one that explores the mythologies we create to find charm in mundanity.

Solo Exhibitions

2024 When the mud settles, Abbozzo Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2023 Half Plus Half, Ascent Gallery, Etobicoke, Ontario

Group Exhibitions

2024 Art Toronto, SSEW Project, Toronto, Ontario

2024 I Notice a Sound That's Out of Place, the plumb, Toronto, Ontario

2024 SEVEN Magazine Issue 02 Launch Party, Foy House, Toronto, Ontario

2024 Fresh Catch, Durand Coffee, Hamilton, Ontario

2024 Artist Project, Better Living Centre, Toronto, Ontario

2024 Youth, Truth, and Imagination, Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery, North York, Ontario

2023 Next Steps Exhibition, Etobicoke Civic Centre, Etobicoke, Ontario

2023 TONIC. 401 Richmond, Toronto, Ontario

2023 GradEx 108, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario

2023 Paraline, Midnight Arcade, Toronto, Ontario

2023 Collective Momentum, Riverdale Hub Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2022 Gathering Divergence, Ada Slaight Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario

2022 Blueprint for a Collective Home, Great Hall Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario

2022 Navigating Identity in the Asian Diaspora, Ada Slaight Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario

Awards and Scholarships

2024 Untapped People's Choice Award, Artist Project Toronto

2023 Drawing and Painting Medal, OCAD University

2023 Nora E. Vaughan Award, OCAD University

2019 Richard Lemieux Memorial Scholarship, OCAD University

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