Artists

HAYLEY LABRUM MORRISON {[email protected]} (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist from Salt Lake City, Utah living and working in Austin, Texas. Morrison’s recent solo exhibitions include Tinkling Ornaments at Martha’s Contemporary and Of(f) the Body at Dougherty Arts Center. She also cocurated Howdy, Stranger, a forty-artist exhibition at FOUNDRY for the 2021 Austin Studio Tour. She created and co-runs the ongoing critique group Crit Nites, and co-founded concept animals in 2020. See more of her work at www.hayley.co or follow her on Instagram @hayleylabrummorrison.

SUSANA SILVA {[email protected]} was born in 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She began her art studies in 1995 and obtained the degree of Teacher and Professor of Visual Arts specializing in painting. She continued her research with materials until she was finally able to develop herself in the technique of hand-cut paper that works better with the demands that her image imposes. She served as an LDS missionary in Rosario, Argentina. She is married and a mother of two children.

ESTHER HI’ILANI CANDARI is primarily a figurative artist who explores concepts such as multiracial identity; gender and the female gaze in the context of religion; and the connections between ecology, culture, and sense of place. Much of her work draws upon her experiences growing up in Hawai’i in an Asian American mixed-race household. She holds a BFA from BYU-H and an MFA from Liberty University and has studied at the New York Academy of Art.

NICOLE WOODBURY studied at Brigham Young University and received a BFA in 3D studio art. Several juried shows have featured her work, including the 11th and 12th International Art Competitions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the 34th, 35th, and 36th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah exhibitions at the Springville Museum of Art. She lives with her four children and husband in North Salt Lake, Utah. www.nicolewoodbury.com

NNAMDI OKONKWO was born in Nigeria in 1965 and has always been drawn to art. He was recruited by BYU–Hawaii to play basketball. There, he found an opportunity to nourish all his talents and graduated with a BFA in sculpture. He received his MFA in sculpture from BYU–Provo in 1997. Okonkwo’s sculptures of women are rotund forms that symbolize the abundance of life, an outward manifestation of a largeness of soul. The souls are full of gesture, even in their seeming stillness. www.nnamdiart.com