Michael Hayden (sculptor)

Michael Hayden (born January 15, 1943 in Vancouver ) is a Canadian sculptor.

Hayden studied at the Ontario College of Art and lives in Chicago. He uses electronic and computer-controlled light installations in his works. With the architect Dik Zander , the poet Blake Parker and the composer John Mills-Cockell , he founded the mixed media group Intersystem in 1966 , and Thinking Lightly, Inc with Kristina Lucas in 1984 .

Hayden's works have been shown internationally in more than 100 group shows and forty solo shows, including the Canadian Nation Exhibition in Toronto in 1969, the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 1973, The Nickle Arts Museum in Calgary in 1983 and the California Museum of Art in Santa Rosa in 1994.

His installation Arc-en-ciel (1978) for the atrium of the Yorkdale subway station in Toronto is regarded as a model of a successful integration of architecture and modern sculpture. Endless Totem, Homage to Brancusi was created for the Calgary Performing Arts Center in 1985 , Sky's the Limit in 1987 for O'Hare Airport in Chicago , Coruscation in 1990 for the Bell Tower of the University of California at Santa Barbara and in 1997 for the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art Intermission and Heaven .

Hayden's works can be found in numerous museums in the USA, Canada and Europe, such as Headmachine in the National Gallery of Canada, in the Art Gallery of Ontario Audiohydrokinetic Presentation and All Things Being Equal and in the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania Scan Gaspé .

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• Think Lightly - curriculum vitae, exhibitions, works
• Michael Hayden. In: The Canadian Encyclopedia.