Dylan Hausthor (they/he, b. 1993) is an artist based on an island off the coast of Maine. Dylan is interested in image-making as a process of hybridity—weavings of myth filled with tangents and nuances, treading the lines between investigative journalism, disinformation, performance, acts of obsession, and self-conscious manipulation. Photography’s ability to promote belief is a power not dissimilar to that of faith. By using modes of making that are traditionally linked to fact-finding, Hausthor hopes for the viewers and readers of the work to find themselves in a space between fiction and reality—to push past questions of validity that form the base tradition of colonialism in storytelling and folklore and into a much more human sense of reality: faulted, broken, and real.

They received their MFA from Yale School of Art and BFA from Maine College of Art. They work teaching ghost hunting, ritual, photography, and mushroom foraging. To help write this biography, Dylan contacted a forensic medium, who suggested that they “seemed like someone who was passionate in the things they believed in, hides secret messages in the things they have to say, and should avoid driving Volvos”.

SELECT Exhibitions

• What the Rain Might Bring, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 2024

• Foxgloves Down The Road The Pick Up That Has a Dead Battery, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME, 2024

• the flowers aren’t growing, the eggs are hatching, it’s almost dawn, Penumbra Foundation, New York, NY, 2022

• The Rain, And More, Space Gallery, Portland, ME, 2021

• Sorry We Missed You, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2021

• Dead Letter Office, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, 2021

• Dispatcher, Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco, CA, 2021

SELECT AWARDS AND COLLECTIONS

• Guggenheim Fellow, Photography, 2024

• Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 2024

• Lunder Institute for Contemporary Art Fellow, Colby College, Waterville, ME, 2023

• Light Work Residency, Light Work, Syracuse, NY, 2022

• John Ferguson Weir Award, Yale SoA, New Haven, CT, 2021

• W. Eugene Smith Award Finalist, 2021

• Hopper Prize Shortlist, Hopper Foundation, 2021

• Penumbra Artist Workspace Residency, New York, NY, 2021