Through sensory acts of world-building, Hayden Dunham immerses their audiences within dynamic and ever-shifting ruptures of reality. Their sculptures, which take on diverse forms, act as extensions of the body, seamlessly fusing primal elements like water, light, and chlorophyll with conduits such as glass, silicone, and metal. Under distinct aliases, including QT, DD, and HYD, Dunham converges performance, evaporation and new experiential forms of material embodiment to further push the lines of expansiveness and transfiguration.Through sensory acts of world-building, Hayden Dunham immerses their audiences within dynamic and ever-shifting ruptures of reality. Their sculptures, which take on diverse forms, act as extensions of the body, seamlessly fusing primal elements like water, light, and chlorophyll with conduits such as glass, silicone, and metal. Under distinct aliases, including QT, DD, and HYD, Dunham converges performance, evaporation and new experiential forms of material embodiment to further push the lines of expansiveness and transfiguration.

Recent solo exhibitions include NEVER IS OVER, Company Gallery, New York (2026); Salt of a New Earth, Thula Gallery, Reykjavík (2024); Transmutation, Company Gallery, New York (2022); Infinite Lift, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles (2021); Burns Blue, Company Gallery, New York (2019); and HA: no name no sides :TH, Artspace, Sydney (2019). Dunham has participated in group exhibitions and performances at the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024); MoMA PS1, New York; the New Museum, New York; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and SIGNAL, Brooklyn. Dunham was born in Austin, Texas, in 1988.