Solo/Selected Exhibitions
Into the Fourth, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI, 2019
Coast to Coast, Curated by Karen Wilkin, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY, 2019
Anonymous Was a Masterpiece, New York Studio School, New York, NY, 2023
CCQL: David Salle x UHM, Commons Gallery, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, 2023
Honolulu New Painting Invitational, The Art Gallery, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, 2023
Flowering in Conversation, Halekulani Gallery, Honolulu, HI, 2018
Within/Without, Collaborative Exhibition, Pegge Hopper Gallery, Honolulu, HI, 2017
Exquisite Corpse, Curated by Jay Jensen, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI, 2015
CONTACT, Honolulu Museum of Art School, Honolulu, HI, 2014
Education
MFA, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, New York, NY, 2009–2011
BFA, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1998–2001
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1999–2000
Orvieto Summer Drawing Marathon, NYSS, Orvieto, Italy, 2009
Residencies
Artist-in-Residence, Google Daydream (AR/VR Division), Mountain View, CA, 2019
Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, 2012
Resident Artist, ʻIolani Palace, Honolulu, HI, 2011–2012
Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2010
Selected Collections
William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, Katonah, NY
Ward Village (Howard Hughes Corporation), Honolulu, HI
Hadley Nunes is a visual artist and educator with over a decade of experience in contemporary art practice and arts education. Her work spans painting, drawing, and performance, exploring symbolic abstraction, ecological interconnection, and the history of painting as a living dialogue across time.
She has had a solo exhibition with the Honolulu Museum of Art, and her work has been shown at Berry Campbell Gallery in New York City and Paul Thiebaud Gallery in San Francisco. Nunes has participated in residencies in the United States, France, and Japan, including a program within Google’s Daydream AR/VR division in Mountain View, California. Her work is included in the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation Collection.
Alongside her studio practice, she serves as lecturer in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she teaches courses in drawing and color theory. She lives and works in Mānoa Valley, Honolulu.