EJ Hauser

EJ Hauser (they/she) is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn and Ulster County, New York, and is represented by Derek Eller Gallery in New York City and Haverkampf & Leistenschneider in Berlin.

Hauser's paintings are both graphic and open to interpretation, teetering between iconography and something familiar but abstract. This imagery shifts between omnivorous references both ancient and current — the paintings are mysterious talismans, employing buzzing pallets and marks that dance. Stuttering lines form a visual code like musical notes, which coalesce with atmospheric layers to create ineffable messages.

Hauser's source library draws from the natural world, imagery that is cross-pollinated with the formal qualities found in craftwork like rugs, fabrics, wallpapers, and mosaics, as well as digital visual characteristics, which they interpret through drawing and then transliterate onto canvas. Each piece is composed of multiple layers of color.

In 2023, Hauser had their second solo show with Haverkampf & Leistenschneider as well as solo shows with Parrasch Heinjen in Los Angeles and at Anton Kern's WINDOW in New York City. Their work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions in New York, including Cheim & Read, Sperone Westwater, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, and The Journal Gallery. Hauser 's work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, and Turps Banana, among others.
 

Related Pages

• EJ Hauser in Conversation with Phong H. Bui

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• EJ Hauser: Mission to Explore
• An Energy All Their Own: Inside the Paintings and Practice of EJ Hauser

Classes (Selected)

• ART 6000 Graduate Seminar: Contemporary Theory and ArtSeminar exploring selected writings on current issues in the visual arts. Designed to introduce graduate students to several approaches to critical inquiry and analysis of contemporary artistic practice. Topics vary but may include related issues in areas such as critical theory, identity politics, institutional frames, sustainability, urbanization, and globalization.

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

• The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Purchase Prize (2021)
• Bovina Artist's Residency (2018)
• Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop — SIP Fellow (2014)
• The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant (2013)

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

• Song of Summer, solo exhibition, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany (2023)
• Mountains and Peaks, solo exhibition, Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles, California (2023)
• WINDOW, solo exhibition, Anton Kern, New York City, New York (2022)

Publications (Selected)

• Hauser, EJ.  Song of Summer Catalog, Berlin: September 2023, Haverkampf Leistenschneider Gallery. Published following the exhibition of Song of Summer at Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany.