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In this recent body of work, the artist explores the shameful, rewarding, and violent consumption of bodies, and particularly those of girls who are coming of age. Through the positioning of her subjects, she invites viewers to identify with these conflicting realities.
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① Artwork:

Untitled (Girl VII)

In this recent body of work, the artist explores the shameful, rewarding, and violent consumption of bodies, and particularly those of girls who are coming of age. Through the positioning of her subjects, she invites viewers to identify with these conflicting realities.

Naomi Hawksley explores the public and private viewership of femme bodies in her multimedia artworks, recontextualizing and dismantling conventional images. Often using hair as a symbol for the well-established social and aesthetic rules that society imposes upon girls from an early age, Hawksley contrasts fragility and beauty with violence and constraint.

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30 inches
22 inches

③ Artist:

Naomi Hawksley

Naomi Hawksley explores the public and private viewership of femme bodies through her multimedia artworks. Combining drawing and lithographic printing techniques, she recontextualizes and dismantles conventional images. Hawksley enjoys graphite as a medium because of its immediate, unpredictable, and delicate nature. Often using hair as a symbol for the well-established social and aesthetic rules that society imposes upon girls from an early age, Hawksley’s images contrast fragility and beauty with violence and constraint.

Naomi Hawksley was born in 2000 and lives in San Francisco, CA. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL (2022).

Hawksley has mounted a solo exhibition at Sulk Chicago in Chicago, IL (2023).

She has participated in group shows such as Never Change at Night Club in Minneapolis, MN (2023), Naomi Hawksley Et Daniel Zeballos at Weatherproof in Chicago, IL (2022), and Fables at Povos in Chicago, IL (2022), among others.

She is a recipient of the Youth Arts Exchange Scholarship, Organization of Women Architects, San Francisco, CA (2018).

Naomi Hawksley:
Untitled (Girl VII), 2023
Graphite on paper
22.0 × 30.0 inches /
Naomi Hawksley:
Untitled (Girl VII), 2023
Graphite on paper
22.0 × 30.0 inches /