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She received an Master of Fine Arts from Parsons The New School for Design in New York City in 1989 and a Bachelor of Science from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1987.
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Paula Hayes
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Hayes has lived and worked in New York City for over two decades and is known for her terrariums and other living artworks, as well as her large-scale public and private landscapes. A major theme in Hayes" work is the connection of people to the natural environment, and much of her work is concerned with the care that is required to grow and maintain largeand small-scale ecosystems. Early Life and Hayes was raised on a farm in upstate New New York
While studying at Parsons, she started a gardening business to support herself.
In the early nineties, Hayes began exhibiting her work in galleries throughout New York City, including Fawbush Gallery, Air Corps Project Room, White Columns, and Andrea Rosen Gallery. Hayes currently works out of her studios in Brooklyn and the East Village.
Hayes has exhibited in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art, Lever House, The Fawbush Gallery, Salon 94, and Marianne Boesky Gallery. The Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, New New York The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Los Angeles
The Schaffhausen Museum in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Galerie fur Landscaftkunst in Hamburg, Germany.
The Patricia Low Galerie in Gstaad, Switzerland. And Eigen and Art in Berlin, Germany, among many others
Clients who have commissioned private landscapes include: Hauser & Wirth Gallery in New York, West Hotel in Miami, Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany, Marianne Boesky, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Nicholas Rohatyn, Rafael and Diana Viñoly, David and Monica Zwirner, Mickey and Jeanne Klein, Andrea Rosen, and Jill Stuart and Ron Curtis.
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