Fellows Exhibition: Calhan Hale
Exhibition Dates: April 3-12, 2026
Opening night: April 3, 5-8 PM
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
If naming something is the first step toward dealing with what is not yet known, I am interested in the inverse. My work explores what becomes possible when familiar things evade expectation and start to live independent from their associations. Re-contextualizing elements from my surroundings through painting, I play with the line between image and object, familiarity and strangeness in order to disrupt assumption with surprise or discovery.
— Calhan Hale, Visual Arts Fellow 2025-2026
About the Artist
Calhan Hale is a visual artist from Houston, TX based in New York. She received a BA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2016 and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in 2025. She has exhibited work at Martha’s in Austin, Texas; Wrong in Marfa, Texas; Casa Lü in Mexico City, Mexico; and the Wallach Art Gallery in New York, NY, and is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. She works primarily in painting and collage.
