Donté K. Hayes is a 2019 Ceramics Monthly Magazine Emerging Artist and Artaxis Fellow. He is the 2019 winner of the 1858 Prize for contemporary southern art from the Gibbes Museum of Art and was one of 20 award recipients of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation’s 2022 grant cycle. He is represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, FL.
Hayes graduated summa cum laude from Kennesaw State University, earning a B.F.A. in ceramics and printmaking with a minor in art history. He also received his M.A. and M.F.A. with honors from the University of Iowa and is the 2017 recipient of the University of Iowa Arts Fellowship.
His artwork has been presented at the 1-54 art fair in London, Design Miami, and in a solo presentation at the 2021 Armory Art fair in New York. Recent art exhibitions include groups shows at the Museum of Science + Industry in Chicago, the Trout Museum of Art in Appleton, Wisconsin, and the 2021 Atlanta Biennial at the Atlanta Contemporary in Georgia. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Des Moines Art Center, and the Newark Museum of Art, among others.
At MacDowell, Hayes spent time working on new ceramic sculptures and exploring new forms in porcelain. A portion of this work was shown in the 2023 group exhibition In Conversation at Chautauqua Institution in New York.
