Hayden Dunham is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice moves between performance, sculpture, installation, and experimental material processes. Their work explores the shifting boundaries between the human body, synthetic substances, and the environment, questioning conventional distinctions between the organic and inorganic, the natural and artificial, and the living and non-living. Central to Dunham’s practice is an understanding of the body as a porous, unstable, and constantly transforming entity. Drawing on ideas from chemistry, ecology, biotechnology, and speculative futures, they investigate how bodies are shaped by the substances and systems they encounter.

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.