About Haley Manchon

Haley Manchon grew up outside of Philadelphia and received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2018. She is represented by MK Apothecary in Collingswood, NJ, and has her work displayed on the 2nd floor of The People’s Store in Lambertville, NJ. She also is a member of the Colored Pencil Society of America.

She has recently exhibited at Aqua Art Miami for Art Basel, Art Fair 14C in Jersey City, Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia, PA; Surreal Salon 16 in Baton Rouge, LA; the 2022 Derwent Art Prize located at Gallery@OXO in London, England; the 12th Annual International Drawing Discourse at UNC Asheville, NC; Salmagundi Club in New York, NY; and with the Colored Pencil Society of America’s Explore This! Exhibitions.

She has been a resident artist at Overland Artworks SHELTER (2020), Gilbertsville Expressive Movement (2019) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art's Currents summer program (2017).

Artist Statement

Haley's work considers the kinds of thoughts that, when she’s alone, often pull her from reality into far off places. Her recent portrait drawings use superimposed imagery of compounded features and patterns to present a visual, literal cycling of these thoughts and moments. The effect is created by using one or multiple layers of dura-lar, which allows the marks of the drawing to delicately emerge and recede. It is within this soft framework of marks that a floating, impermanent sense of self is presented.

These works are often supported by the different processes she has developed over the years, including but not limited to digital manipulation, screen printing, projection, collage and mixed media, among others. The goal is to build an ongoing dialogue between analog and digital methods to create a visual language that she can call her own. 

Aside from this, Haley has been developing the characters and worlds that exist in her sketchbooks. These drawings are very personal – a strange mix of childhood nostalgia, painful memories and visual note taking. It is a practice that has become especially comforting in this past year.