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Born and raised on Long Island, Haley Hayden (1999) is an oil and acrylic painter based in New York. She obtained her BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2022. Hayden's work delves into the strange, poignant, and vulnerable aspects of everyday life. She draws from her lived experiences, imagination, memory, and outside artistic influences like music and poetry. This culmination of source imagery results in open-ended stories on canvas. While the images that surface may touch on taboo subjects like solitude, death, and nightmares, they are not without humor, playfulness, and some comfort.