Installation view, *Close My Eyes To See*, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, 2023. Photo by Eric Cortes.

Hayley Quentin creates quiet, introspective works informed by mysticism, human identity, and the pursuit of what is knowable. She uses diaphanous layers of watercolor and colored pencil in a slow, meticulous process that allows for the work to reveal itself over time.

Quentin was born in Los Angeles, California, during the year of the comet that is her namesake. Recent exhibitions include Signal Fires at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in Los Angeles and a three-person booth at The Armory Show in New York. Quentin has presented two solo exhibitions with LOOCK Galerie in Berlin, Germany. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles and Wolfgang Gallery in Atlanta. She was recently included in New American Paintings Pacific Coast Issue #169. Notable press includes The Wall Street Journal and Hyperallergic. Quentin was also the 2022 recipient of The Martha Alf Foundation Grant. She received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2023.

She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.