left: The Gift of Sorrow...everybody gets one...here's Yours, 2010, oil & enamel on signboard, 37x30"
right: Night Dread...(holds and horrifies), 2010, oil & enamel on signboard, 40x32"

"And Kirk Hayes' trompe l'oeil paintings at Dallas' Conduit Gallery were baffling. Even after
realizing that his plywood and cardboard "collages" are the purest illusion, we still don't believe it.
Out-of-the-way finds like Mr. Hayes are, in the end, what make Art Basel's machinations palatable."

                        Mario Naves, The Art Basel Miami Miasma, New York Observer, December 17, 2007

Selected Exhibitions:

ArtHouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Contemporary Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Rachel Harris Gallery, Ft. Worth, TX
Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
ArtPace, San Antonio, TX