Hayley Arjona has a Masters of Art Therapy from La Trobe University (2020), a Masters in Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts (2000) and a Bachelor of Visual Arts with first-clas honours from the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia (1998). She has held solo exhibitions since 2000 in Melbourne and Sydney.

Hayley Arjona has been included in group exhibitions including NotFair, Melbourne (2021), Unfinished Business – on Art and Feminism at ACCA, Melbourne (2018), Identity and Desire at the Art Gallery of South Australia (2005), None more blacker touring to Geelong Gallery, Shepparton Art Gallery, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Global Arts Link, Latrobe Regional Gallery and Mildura Arts Centre; and Gold Card 1 and Cleanskin at the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide South Australia (1999 and 1998). Her work has been exhibited internationally in Portugal.

Hayley Arjona is the recipient of Pilot Research Funding, School of Psychology and Public Health, Internal Grant Scheme, La Trobe University (2023), Australian Postgraduate Awards (1999, 2000), a South Australian Youth Arts Board artists in Studio Grant from the Experimental Art Foundation, South Australia (1999), the Corporation of the City of Adelaide Award, Helpmann Academy, South Australia (1999) and the John Christie Wright Memorial Prize for Painting, University of South Australia (1997). She has been a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize (2023), Alice Prize (2018), the Incinerator Art Prize (2018) and the Bruny Island Art Prize (2016). Arjona's work is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of South Australia and Artbank.

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
29 April / 04 June 2023

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Hayley Arjona lives and paints on a farm in Glenhope near Kyneton. A practicing artist for over 20 years, her creative journey has been unrelentless, non-conforming, and ever-evolving.

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