Sherri Hay’s practice has long focused on time, relationships and change. By shifting temporalities and shifting epistemologies, objects disclose something akin to personality, and this expands the way we think of our fellow beings in this world. Ultimately she is motivated by how presence and attunement to someone/something is a path to empathy and how empathy can induce a more equitable ecology.
She is a self-taught artist currently based in Tkaronto. With a wide ranging practice that includes sculpture, installation, video and performance, her work has been exhibited around the world, in Canada at the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario among others. It is held also by the West Collection in the USA and the Zabludowicz Trust in the UK. She is also an occasional collaborator in theatre and dance.
With respect for this land that she inhabits, she is a grateful guest.