Haylee Anne is an Atlanta-based disabled artist and creative practitioner. She is a BFA graduate from Montclair State University, MFA candidate at Georgia State University, and current studio artist at Guardian Studios within Echo Contemporary Art in Atlanta, GA. Her work has shown in venues such as the Center for Civil and Human Rights, MINT Gallery, and Soho20 Gallery. In 2013 she was awarded the VSA Excellence in Artistry award by the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Center, in 2020 she was a distinguished fellow at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, and in 2023 was awarded the Winne Chandler Art & Design Scholarship. As an enthusiastic member of Living Melody Collective and collaborator with the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities, she focuses on creative and empathetic impact.
Her current work engages with curiosity and personal history of body and impairment / disability through a lens of complexly constructed layers in photogram-based lumen prints. Within these assemblages, she employs details and depth to consider: what does it look like for disabled bodies moving through their own microcosm of endurance, liminal mental/body space, foggy precipices of rest, and moments of stillness? The resulting images engage with interpreting and contemplating how one navigates this balancing body physical / body mind, and daily minutiae. By employing a multifaceted and curious practice she is exploring the act of co/existing with an unpredictable illness.