Maggie Hazen

Maggie Hazen (b. 1989) Fern, CA, lives and works in Catskills, NY

Hazen's artistic practice spans sculpture, video, collage, performance, and installation which she employs to explore the complex ways in which subjects interact with and perform within the spaces they occupy. Through synthesizing narratives drawn from popular culture and institutional systems, Hazen's works aim to reconstruct the familiar and make it strange in order to reveal what is hidden.

Hazen holds a BFA in sculpture from Biola University and an MFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design. She is the founder of the Columbia Collective where she co-authors projects with incarcerated girls. She has exhibited, screened, and performed works at The Bronx Museum (New York), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), The Museum of Tolerance (Los Angeles), Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn), The Granoff Center (Brown University) and CICA Museum (South Korea) among others.

Currently, she is working to build the Juvenile Justice Arts and Media Network. An emergent arts and media production platform supporting the creative freedom of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youth in order to help heal cycles of harm, celebrate young creative talent and respond to the urgent challenge of foraging new terrains of justice.