Patricia Gren Hayes

"Trying to Hide the Flower Thoughts" Figurative Nude Study

1984

Patricia Gren Hayes is a Bay Area Figurative/Feminist Art Movement artist who studied at Winnipeg Public Art School in 1950. She received early recognition in Museum and Gallery competitions and exhibitions and was awarded a Special Education in Art recognition by the Winnipeg Museum of Fine Art as well as a scholarship to the Banff College of Fine Art. Further studies were at the University of Manitoba.

Hayes was a Member of Winnipeg Free Press Sketch Club and was a cartoonist and paste-up for a French-English bi-weekly in Eastern Canada. She studied outdoor Impressionism in New York, 1960; attended the California College of Arts and Crafts, 1962, and BA, U.C. Berkeley, 1976, where she studied under Elmer Bischoff, David Simpson, Joan Brown, Felix Ruvolo, Yolanda Lopez and Vincent Perez. Hayes started a freelance commercial art business in 1963; copyrighted a National Cartoon, 1976, and served as Exhibition Director for San Francisco Woman Artists Gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1976–78. She was a workshop instructor at the San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, 1977–85, and was Manager/Owner Stanton Art Gallery, Alameda, CA, 1976–82. Hayes exhibited solo at Berkeley Marina, 1974; Oakland Center for The Visual Arts, "Images of Women," 1979.