Born 1987. Lives and works in Sydney
PhD (Painting), Sydney College of the Arts
Bachelor of Visual Art (Painting), First Class Honours, Sydney College of the Arts
Different paths I have taken that remind me where I am, Alexandra Lawson Gallery, Toowoomba
Three Houses Down, Peacock Gallery, Auburn The Pipeline (A Suburban Painting Project), Galerie pompom, Sydney
In the studio, The Orchard Gallery, Sydney
Against the sky, Galerie pompom, Sydney
Vertigo, Alexandra Lawson Gallery, Toowoomba Horizons present and unseen, Broken Hill Regional Gallery
Hints of things we know, Galerie pompom, Sydney The Red House, Lewers House, Penrith Regional Gallery
Hayley Megan French, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
See where it drifts, MOP Projects hosted by Galerie pompom, Sydney
Enchantment of Composition, 20/20, Damien Minton Gallery Annex Space, Sydney
Sydney Contemporary at pompom, Galerie pompom, Sydney Looking at Painting, Casula Powerhouse
Legacy: Reflections on Mabo, Umbrella Studios, QLD NEXT, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks 1919, Galerie pompom, Sydney
Landing Points, Co-curated by Dr Lee-Anne Hall & Hayley Megan French, Penrith Regional Gallery
Auckland Art Fair Interiors/Exteriors, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
Influence, Firestation Art Centre, Dubbo, NSW The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, Verge Gallery, Sydney FINE ART University Selection 2014-2015, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki, Japan
Sydney Painting Now, Galerie pompom, Sydney Value of Nothing, RAYGUN Contemporary, Toowoomba, QLD Landscape Too, AirSpace Projects, Sydney Orbit (Melbourne), Blindside, Melbourne Group show, RAYGUN Contemporary, Toowoomba, QLD
Out of Site, Articulate Project Space, Sydney Orbit (Hobart), Constance Gallery, Hobart, TAS Glow, Graduate School Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney Orbit, NG Gallery Pop Up Space, Sydney
PhD Conference Exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney Re-invention of Gravity, Verge Gallery, Sydney
Articulate Christmas Show, Articulate Project Space, Sydney Friends of 20/20, Damien Minton Gallery Annex Space, Sydney RAGTIME, Global Gallery, Sydney Strangers in a Gallery, MOP Projects, Sydney Rather Be Naked 2011, Tortuga Studios, Sydney
Finalist, Blacktown City Art Prize, The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre Finalist, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre Finalist, Mosman Art Prize
Finalist, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea
Finalist, The Grace Cossington Smith Art Award, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney Finalist, The Paddington Art Prize, Menzies Art Brands, Sydney The Border Line residency, Kununurra, WA Cumberland Council studio residency, Linnwood House, Guildford Finalist, Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, National Art School, Sydney
NAVA NSW Artists’ Grant Finalist, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre Summer Studio Residency, Penrith Regional Gallery
Kandos Projects Residency Winner, Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Australia Student Prize Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship Recipient Artist in residence, Parramatta Artist Studios
Finalist, The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
University of Sydney Postgraduate Award Artist in residence, Distanciation (Collective), Index Space, Sydney
Ellen Hewitt & Luke Létourneau, ’Looking at Painting’, Casula Powerhouse Felicity Castagna and Hayley Megan French, ‘Notes on a Suburbia’, Sydney Review of Books, 22 March
Felicity Castagna, ‘Notes on Suburbia: A response to Hayley Megan French’s The Pipeline’
‘Suburbs: Hayley Megan French in conversation with Robert Wood’, Semaphore, November
‘Landing Points’, Hayley Megan French on ArtiFacts, Eastside Radio, Monday 5 February
‘MODES OF PRACTICE,’ Eyeline, Issue #87 ‘Grace Robyina – Creating Conversations,’ Art Collector, Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Edition, August ‘Fingerprints in the paint’, Nonggirrnga Marawili Artist Profile, Art Collector Anniversary Issue, Issue 80, pp154-159
Tony Mighell, ‘Two Painters’ Canvas on FBi radio, Hayley Megan French & Carla Liesch, 9 October Sharne Wolff, ‘Hints of things we know’, Critics’ Picks, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 April Carrie Miller, ‘Hayley Megan French’, Art Collector Issue 76, pp96-97 Museums Australasia 2016 Conference, Auckland, New Zealand Jonathan McBurnie, Interiors/Exteriors catalogue essay
Hayley Megan French, ‘White Out: Tamara Mendels’ Hayley Megan French in collaboration with Alana Hunt and Anna Crane, ‘Yiliyarri: Churchill Cann,‘ exhibition text for Churchill Cann, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney in collaboration with Warmun Art Centre Jonathan McBurnie, ‘Hints of things we know: The paintings of Hayley Megan French’, exhibition catalogue essay, James Makin Gallery
Hayley Megan French and Carla Liesch, ‘Introduction’, Landscape Too exhibition catalogue essay, ISBN 978-1-921661-42-6 Sean Lowry, ‘Hayley Megan French: New paintings’, exhibition catalogue essay ‘Hayley Megan French/See where it drifts’, interview with Jonathan McBurnie, Sneaky magazine Altair Roelants, ‘2014 Undiscovered Artists – Hayley Megan French’, Art Collector, Issue 68 Apr-Jun, pp96-97.
Carrie Miller, ‘Curriculum Culture’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 66, Oct-Dec, pp63-70 ‘Talking Shop’, Hayley Megan French and Kate Beckingham, Ten out of 10, MOP Projects 10th Anniversary catalogue, ISBN: 978-1-921661-33-4
Challenging Dialogue: Current Relationships between Aboriginal and non-Indigenous art and artists; September, PhD Conference, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
Hayley Megan French, ‘Heart You Hold’, ISBN: 9780646553276
The Influence of Aboriginal Art on an Australian Ontology of Painting; Museums Australasia 2016, Facing the Future: Local, Global and Pacific Possibilities 15-19 May, 2016, Auckland, New Zealand
Challenging Dialogue: Current Relationships between Aboriginal and non-Indigenous art and artists; September, PhD Conference, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
Art Strategy, Barangaroo; A private art commission featuring Ron Adams, Hayley Megan French, Daniel Hollier and Tom Polo, in collaboration with THERE and The Operative.
Here We Are | We Are Here, with Carla Liesch, Locale Festival, Cumberland Council Commission
A Work for Clandulla State Gallery, 2015-2017, with Carla Liesch, Umbrella Studio contemporary arts, Townsville
You are one of the reasons I make art, with Carla Liesch, Parramatta Lanes
Wall Painting: The Exhibitions, Raygun Lab, Toowoomba, QLD Distanciation (Collective), Watch This Space, Alice Springs, NT
Groundwork, MOP Projects, Sydney Distanciation (Collective), Index Space, Sydney – Residency Abstract Narrative, with Stephanie Bridget Quirk, Factory 49, Sydney Group Show, ‘Wall Painting (with white painting)’, with Carla Liesch, Articulate Project Space, Sydney Abstract Narrative, with Stephanie Bridget Quirk, Trocadero Artspace, Footscray, VIC
Artbank Australia
Private collections in Australia, New Zealand and USA