Born in 1969, Isabelle Hayeur is a Canadian artist known for her photographs and her experimental videos. Her work is situated within a critical approach to the environment, urban development and to social conditions. Since the late 1990s, she has been probing the territories she goes through to understand how our contemporary civilizations take over and fashion their environments. She is concerned about the evolution of places and communities in the neoliberal sociopolitical context we currently live in. Her artistic approach examines the relations between nature and culture in a world where their (false) opposition is a dominant ideology that still structures our Western societies.

Her artworks have been shown at the National Gallery of Canada, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in Berlin, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, Tampa Museum of Art, Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain, Today Art Museum in Beijing and Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie à Arles. She has also actively participated in international artists’ residencies, notably at the Rauschenberg Residency, Sitka Center for Arts and Ecology, The Studios of Key West, the International Studio & Curatorial Program ISCP, A Studio in the Woods / Tulane University, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Wall House #2 Groninger Museum, amongst others.

“Artists and scientists are both asking questions about the world, they’re just doing it in different ways”
Alex Braidwood
Director, Iowa Lakeside Lab Artists-in-Residence Program

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