The Friends of the Art Library are pleased to present a solo exhibit of artwork by DAC Exhibits Director, Peter Hay. Peter Hay is an arts administrator, teacher, visual and conceptual artist. His personal body of work is based upon embellishments of current ecological issues, which could be described as environmental realism.

Hay’s academic career began at Northern Oklahoma College where he received his Associates of Art, continued with a Bachelors of Art from Northeastern State University, and lastly with a Master of Fine Arts from Louisiana Tech University. While attending LA Tech University, Peter held a Full Teaching Assistantship and graduated as the Academic Excellence Honoree for the School of Design. In addition, he has completed several murals, taught summer arts camps and workshops, worked as a freelance artist and illustrator, participated in multiple group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally. These include exhibitions at First Street Gallery in New York City, the Louisiana State Archive, University of Louisiana Monroe, Palacio de Belles Artes, Rotunda in Manizales, Columbia, and Lessedra Art Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria. Most recently, Hay won Curator’s Choice Award at Momentum OKC 2016, a survey of Oklahoma artists 30 and under. 'My work stems from a need to investigate the natural world, how I fit into it, and how it has come to be the way it is. Histories of environment or inhabitant are represented through research, action, and process. I moved to the mountains recently and these two series, Unearthed and Shroud, grew out of a curiosity in the power contained within something as benign in appearance as stone. Everything reacts when disturbed.'