About

Clarity Haynes (b. 1971, McAllen, TX) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and upstate New York.  She is a queer feminist painter engaging with the body, the archive, and LGBTQIA+ activist culture. Her primary projects are the Torsos series (ongoing since 1997); the Altars series (ongoing since 1999); and the Crowning series (begun in 2020). 

Her work has been widely exhibited, including at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Montclair Art Museum, Brandeis University’s Kniznick Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, and the Bunker Art Space. She is represented by New Discretions, in New York City. 

Haynes is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, a Pollock-Krasner Award, a Community Arts Regrant Award from the Brooklyn Arts Council and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. 

Her work has been discussed in The New York Times, Artforum, The New Yorker, CULTURED Magazine, and New York Magazine, amongst others. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Leslie-Lohman Museum, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, the Rena Rowan Breast Center of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, and the Brooklyn Museum Feminist Art Base, as well as numerous significant private collections.