James Hayward (artist)

James Hayward (born 1943, San Francisco, California) is a contemporary abstract painter who lives and works in Moorpark, California. Hayward's paintings are usually divided in two bodies of work: flat paintings (1975-1984) and thick paintings (1984 to the present). He works in series, some of which are ongoing, and include The Annunciations, The Stations of the Cross, the Red Maps, Fire Paintings, Smoke Paintings, Sacred and Profane and Nothing's Perfect series.

Education and teaching
Hayward got his Bachelor of Arts at San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, studied in the Graduate art program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1966 to 1969 and got his Master of Fine Arts at the University of Washington, Seattle in 1972.

Taught:
 * 1994-2012 — Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, Graduate Art Programs
 * 1999 — University of California, Los Angeles (winter quarter)
 * 1997 — University of Texas at San Antonio (guest artist / fall semester)
 * 1992-1995 — University of California, Los Angeles
 * 1987 — University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (guest artist / spring quarter)
 * 1985 — College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
 * 1983 — University of California, Berkeley, CA (guest artist)
 * 1980 — Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota (guest artist)
 * 1979 — California State University, Bakersfield (guest artist)
 * 1976-1978 — College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Exhibitions
Hayward has exhibited extensively, particularly in California, since his first show solo show in 1976. He has exhibited at historically significant galleries such as Claire S. Copley Gallery, Riko Mizuno Gallery and Rosamund Felsen Gallery and Roberts Projects in Los Angeles and Sidney Janis Gallery in New York, and his work has been included in museum exhibitions in institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Hirschorn Museum, Washington D.C., The Renaissance Society At The University Of Chicago, and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, U.K. among others. Through the 1990s and 2000s he exhibited extensively at Modernism, San Francisco and Ace Contemporary Exhibitions in Los Angeles. Artist Mike Kelley curated a solo exhibition of his work in 2005 at the Cue Art Foundation in New York calling Hayward "one of the few truly important West Coast Painters." Also in 2005, critic and educator Dave Hickey included his work in a curated show entitled Step into Liquid, at the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles.

Recently Hayward's work has been included in "Under the Big Black Sun" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, curated by Paul Schimmel in 2011, a solo exhibition at Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles James Hayward Paintings from the 70's in conjunction with the Getty's Pacific Standard Time exhibition in 2011 and his Annunciation paintings have been shown in the solo exhibition Variations on the Annunciation at Meliksetian | Briggs in Los Angeles in 2013.

Works in institutional and museum collections

 * Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
 * San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
 * Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
 * Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
 * Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
 * San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
 * Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
 * Denver Museum of Modern Art, Denver, Colorado
 * Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
 * Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California
 * University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California
 * Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
 * Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
 * Anderson School of Business, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Honors and awards

 * 1977 — Young Talent Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
 * 1981 — Japan-United States Creative Arts Fellowship
 * 1983 — John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
 * 1991 — Awards in the Visual Arts 10 Grant
 * 1993 — National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
 * 1996 — Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

Writing
In 2010, Hayward produced a book of short stories entitled Indiscretion: Selected Stories, based on his reminiscences, "war stories" as his close friend artist Ed Moses calls them. Writing in The Huffington Post, Gordy Grundy calls it "a chronicle of a ribald life in the arts as well as a glimpse of SoCal living".