As part of the acclaimed Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series, this is the first comprehensive publication to capture Hayes's unique blend of performance and social engagement which has been at the forefront of questions of feminist history, queer time, and protest culture for over a decade.

This book is the first to feature all of Hayes's most significant projects, from the ten-hour performance My Fellow Americans: 1981-1988 to her Monument Lab addressing the absence of monuments to women in Philadelphia.

American artist Sharon Hayes uses photography, film, video, sound, performance, and text to interrogate the intersections between the personal and collective sphere. Her deeply affective and queer approach to history and politics draws particular attention to the language of twentieth-century activism as well as drama, anthropology, and journalism. A professor of fine art at the University of Pennsylvania, Hayes's work has been shown at the 2010 Whitney Biennial, Documenta 12 in Kassel, and the 55th Venice Biennale, as well as in the most prestigious museums around the world. Her re-examination of protest, speech, and history is one of the most powerful reflections of the complexity and the urgency of our times. 

Sharon Hayes
‘Sharon Hayes’, 2018
English
Edited by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jeannine Tang, Lanka Tattersall
Published by Phaidon, London
Printed by Phaidon Press Ltd
Designed by Melanie Mues, Mues Design, London
Publication photographed by Nick Ash
Softcover
25x29 cm
9⅞×11⅜ in
160 pp. with 200 illustrations
ISBN 9780714873466