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