╼ Haiden Hall Creates ╾
Meet the Artist
Haiden E. Hall (he/they) is a Kentucky-born multimedia artist. He is originally from Elizabethtown, KY, and currently resides in Louisville, KY.
After graduating high school in 2018, he received the Potter College Creative Arts Scholarship for Art & Design at Western Kentucky University (WKU) to pursue a degree in Fine Arts. However, they changed direction a year later, choosing to move towards a different and unexpected passion: developmental and sustainable economics. He graduated from WKU in 2021 with a B.S. in Business Economics and worked in the corporate finance sector for three years before pivoting back to art as a way to grapple with growing health issues and life changes. His education in sustainability and economic development heavily influences their art, and each work begins with the foundation of environmental consciousness.
Artist Statement
I have always found beauty in dichotomy. This beauty has both inspired and described my work and who I am as a multimedia artist. I embrace essentialism in my work, or the practice of knowing when enough is enough.
I want to put on the canvas exactly enough for the viewer to experience the kind of emotions I hope to invoke and no more. I strive to use the canvas as an outlet for my pain, mental and physical, releasing my stream of consciousness, and know when it's time to step away and leave with relief.
Embodying the world's dichotomies and what is essential allows me to focus on conceptualizing complex feelings and emotions into more digestible works.
My work always begins with a foundation of environmental consciousness. Every purchase and decision I make throughout the artistic process is rooted in not consuming any more than necessary.
Most of my canvases were bought secondhand from thrift shops. My materials are a hodgepodge of art supplies from friends, my wife’s childhood craft bin, and purchases from my college years. I use extra fabric to stretch my own canvases over scrap wood found in the streets around my home.
Using and reusing materials in innovative and creative ways is, and always will be, part of my process.
“I want to put on the canvas exactly enough for the viewer to experience the kind of emotions I hope to invoke and no more.”