Pamela Hadley

Portland, OR

Biography

Pamela Hadley is a time-based light artist based in Portland, OR. Using projected minimalist abstract animations while considering or constructing architectural forms, they create immersive environments. Hadley is interested in how embodied viewing changes the scale of time and place and makes us witnesses to the divorce of contemporary culture from these basic realities. Believing that phenomenological experience can be an agent of social change, they seek to make these experiences available to everyone.

Hadley has participated in exhibitions and artist residencies across the US, including the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology and High Dessert Test Sights. They have recieved several awards from RACC and the Ford Family Foundation. An active member of the Portland, OR art community, Hadley is a member of Carnation Contemporary, WAVE Collective, Borderline Salon, a founding member of POCOCO (Portland Coalition of Art Collectives), and a Member of the Board for Art in Oregon. Hadley earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, and a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC.



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