A Painter Living in Rockland, Maine
Connie Hayes received her M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and Rome, her B.F.A. from the Maine College of Art in Portland, and her B.A. from the University of Maine. She was awarded a fellowship to attend the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1989.
Born in Gardiner, Maine, she taught at the Maine College of Art for 10 years while also participating in arts administration there for 15 years, including as interim Dean of Faculty. In 2003, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the Maine College of Art.
From 1992-1998, she lived and painted in New York City. Since 1990, she has painted on location through her Borrowed Views project, as well as continuing her studio-based work. She served as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Farnsworth Art Museum.
Exhibition
2024-2025
40 YEAR THOS. MOSER ART RETROSPECTIVE, FREEPORT, MAINE
2024, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2009
Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, Maine, Connie Hayes: Current Work
2010, 2008, 2006
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine, Biennial Juried Exhibition
2009
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine, Flower Power
2008
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine, First Traces
2007
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine, Connie Hayes: Pastels and Oils from France
2007
DFN Gallery, New York, New York, New York at Night
2005
The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine, Diminutive Destinations
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine, Water
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, Maine, Water
2004
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, Painting Maine: Connie Hayes and the Borrowed View
2003
Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Portland Museum of Art Biennial
Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Vernacular: Selections from the Collection
Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Vernacular: Selections from the Collection
2001
I. C. A. at Maine College of Art, Portland, Domestic Culture: Home in Visual Culture
Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 16th Annual Maine Women’s Studies Conference Exhibition
Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 16th Annual Maine Women’s Studies Conference Exhibition
2000, 1999
The Armory Show, New York, New York, Works on Paper
2000
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, Carina House: The First Decade
1998
National Academy Museum, New York, New York, 173rd Annual Exhibition
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, New York, A Skowhegan Decade
Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson University, New Jersey, Connie Hayes, Curator’s Award
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, New York, A Skowhegan Decade
Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson University, New Jersey, Connie Hayes, Curator’s Award
1996
The Painting Center, New York, New York
Maine Coast Artists and Maine College of Art, Skowhegan at 50: The Maine Legacy
Maine Coast Artists and Maine College of Art, Skowhegan at 50: The Maine Legacy
1995
Collett Art Gallery, Weber State College, Ogden, Utah, On the Street Where You Live (supported by the National Endowment of the Arts through Artists Space, New York, New York)
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine, Mainescapes: Women Artists, 1900-1995
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine, Mainescapes: Women Artists, 1900-1995
Professional
2012-2021
Farnsworth Art Museum: Board of Trustees
2014, 2015
Painting faculty, JSS Summer Art School and Residency, Civita Castellana, Italy
2008
Farnsworth Art Museum: “Artists on Art,” conversation with Thomas Andrew Denenberg
2007
Maryland Art Education Association: Keynote address at the 2007 Annual Meeting
Portland Museum of Art: Keynote address at the 2007 Docent Annual Meeting
Portland Museum of Art: Keynote address at the 2007 Docent Annual Meeting
2005
National Art Education Association: Keynote address at the 2005 Annual Meeting, Boston
2004, 1989
Bowdoin College, Visiting Artist
2003
Maine College of Art, Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts
2001
Maine College of Art, MFA Program, Visiting Artist
1999
University of Southern Maine, Visiting Artist
1995
San Francisco State University, Visiting Artist
1993
Alfred University, Visiting Artist
1987-1992
Maine College of Art. Faculty, 1992 Interim Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Dean
Collections / Commissions
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Farnsworth Art Museum, Maine
Monhegan Museum, Maine
Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine
University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor
American Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
University of New England Art Gallery
Portland Public Library
L.L. Bean
Art in Embassies Program: Barbados, Yemen.
Rockefeller Collections
ABC, Good Morning America
Fortune Magazine
The New Yorker
U.S. Savings Bonds
Blue Cross Blue Shield
UNUM Life Insurance
Harvard Business School
Bentley College
Habitat for Humanity
Artist Residencies
2022
Pace House Residency (Maine College of Art), Stonington, Maine
2013
Fellow, Vermont Studio Center
1991
Monhegan Artists’ Residency
1989
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Publication
ART OF PENOBSCOT BAY, BY CARL LITTLE AND DAVID LITTLE, ISLANDPORT PRESS, 2024
Island Journal, "Vision Shared: The Painter and the Lobsterman” by Melissa Waterman, Volume 33, The Island Institute, 2017
Fine Art Connoisseur, “Art Books for a Desert Island” by Nancy Bea Miller, March/April 2011
The Free Press, “art current: Dialogue with Connie Hayes” by Britta Konau, November, 2010
Maine Home + Design, “The Canvas” by Suzette McAvoy, August 2010
Maine Sunday Telegram, July 15, 2007; April 23, 2006; July 11, 2004; February, 2003; April 6, 2003
New England Home, “Masterworks: Trading Spaces”, by Christine Temin, January/February 2007
Island Journal, “Borrowing & Giving Back”, by Carl Little, Volume 22, The Island Institute, 2006
The Working Waterfront, “A Room of Her Own”, by Tina Cohen, August 2005
The Art of Monhegan Island, by Carl Little, Down East Books, 2004
The Boston Globe Magazine, “House Painter: Connie Hayes Captures the Essence of Home in her Borrowed Views”, by Edgar Allen Beem, September 26, 2004
STERN Das Deutsche Magazin, “Natürbhüne am Atlantik”, by Jan Christoph Wiechmann and Katja Heinemann, September 2, 2004
PAINTING MAINE The Borrowed Views of Connie Hayes, by Connie Hayes, introduction by Carl Little, and foreword by Chris Crosman, Borrowed Views Press, 2004
The New York Times, “2003 Portland Museum of Art Biennial”, April 4, 2003
Maine Boats & Harbors, “Connie Hayes Borrows the View”, Autumn, 2002
The Art of Maine in Winter, by Carl Little, Down East Books, 2002
Art and Antiques, “From Ideas to Art; Five Rising Art Stars”, by Edward Gomez, December 2001
Maine Times, “No Artist is an Island”, by Donna Gold, January 6, 2000
Maine, The Spirit of America, by Edgar Allen Beem, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 2000
Art New England, “New Borrowed Views”, by Shirley Jacks, December 98 /January 99
Education
1982
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Rome and Philadelphia, M.F.A.
1980
Maine College of Art, Portland, B.F.A.
1974
University of Maine, Orono, B.A.