Scott Hazard’s mixed-media works are a meditation how people engage, understand, and exploit the land and the cultural lenses through which we perceive, experience and engage with our environment. Delving into recent and distant histories of human interaction with our environment, as well as geology, hydrology and plant ecology, the landscape becomes something that can be read. In an age where so much of the reality we exist in is transmitted to us digitally, our understandings of wilderness become less reflective of nature than the constant flow of information, language, images and symbols that habitually surrounds us. Hazard extracts and projects narratives from/onto constructed cosmic topographies to craft glimpses of fabricated notions of wilderness. His works feature numerous layers of paper punctuated with geometric and organic masses of hand-stamped text, which are carefully torn or cut, spaced apart and aligned to define intimate portal-like voids and micro-gardens. The viewer has the opportunity to look ‘at’ and ‘through’ each composition simultaneously. EDUCATION 2005 Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at the University of Florida 2003 “Benchmarks” Woodworking Course at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina1996 Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture with English Minor from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo1996 University of Canberra, Australia SELECTED SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS2021-22 Scott Hazard – Bellows – Site-Specific Mixed-Media Installation, Alcove Gallery, CAM (Contemporary Art Museum) Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina2020 The Song of Earth Has Many Different Chords: Gabe Brown and Scott Hazard – Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, Maryland2020 Safe Havens: Maggie Gourlay and Scott Hazard – Online Exhibition/Adah Rose Gallery. Curator: Laura Augustin2017 Character Space: Stephanie Strange and Scott Hazard – Artspace, Raleigh, North Carolina2015 Memory Gardens – Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, Maryland2014 Silent Geography – PARIS-SCOPE at Mixed Greens, New York, New York2013 Cultivations – Smith Gallery, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina2013 Be Careful... – Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina2013 Constructs – Foster Art Gallery, Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania2012 Typographic Cultivations – Dové Gallery, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia2011 Departures – Smoyer Gallery, Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia2011 Meditations/Mediations - Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Town of Cary, North Carolina2009 Topographic Ruminations - Artspace, Raleigh, North Carolina SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2024 plants, and birds, and rocks, (and things) – The Block Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina Curator: Scott Hazard with Stacey Bloom-Rexrode2024 plants, and birds, and rocks, (and things) – Historic Farmhouse, Horseshoe Farm Nature Preserve, Raleigh, North Carolina, Curator: Scott Hazard2023 The Sky Turned to Blue With a Remarkable Beauty and Clarity – Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, North Carolina, Curator Adah Rose Bitterbaum2020 drawn: concept & craft – Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC, Curator: Tomas Vu and Wendy Earle with Brian Novatny (Catalogue)2020 Headlands Center for the Arts: Benefit Art Auction 2020 – San Francisco, California (Online Auction)2019 On Paper! – Cabarrus Arts Council, Concord, North Carolina, Curator: Rebecca Collins2019 Carte Blanche – Studio Gallery, Washington D.C., Curator: Adah Rose Bitterbaum2019 On Paper – Cabarrus Arts Council Galleries, Concord, NC, Curator: Rebecca Collins2018 The New Psychedelics – (Online Exhibition) Humble Arts Foundation New York, www.hafny.org Curators: Roula Seikaly and Jon Feinstein2018 The Collection in Black and White – Block Gallery, Raleigh, NC2017 PAPERMAKERS – Art and Design In and Out of Paper – LIGHT Art+Design, Chapel Hill, NC 2016 Headlands Center for the Arts Benefit Art Auction 2016 – Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, California2016 clouds and waves – Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina Curators: Jordan Ahlers and Michael Manes2015 Natural States – Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, New York Curators: Nati Hyojin Kim and Santiago Garcia of Mixed Greens, NYC.2015 Sacred Spaces – The Block Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina Curator: Stacey Bloom-Rexrode2015 CONTEXT Art Miami – Adah Rose Gallery, Miami, Florida, Curator: Adah Rose Bitterbaum2015 Art Silicon Valley – Simon Breitbard Fine Arts, San Mateo, California, Curator: Stephanie Breitbard, Evie Simon, Svea Lin Soll2015 sa+ah Alumni Invitational: Image, Object and Meaning – University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Curator: Richard Heipp2015 Sometimes a Great Notion – School 33, Baltimore, Maryland Curator: Randall Scott2014 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Exhibition – CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina2014 New to the Third – Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina2013 Under Construction – Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana Curator: Patrick Flaherty.2012 2012 Winter Show – Green Hill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, North Carolina Curator: Edie Carpenter.2012 After image – the photographic process(ed) – Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, California Curator: James MacDevitt2012 Paper Shapers – Silber Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland Curator: Laura Amussen2011 Between Time and Space – Mary Davis Holt Gallery, Salem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Curator: Kimberly Varnadoe2011 New Works - Artspace, Raleigh, North Carolina. Juror: Melissa Peden.2010 con-TEXT-ual-ize – Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College, Bel Air, Maryland Curator: Elizabeth Crisman2007 Time Based Media Invitational - Artspace, Raleigh, North Carolina AWARDS2023-25 City of Raleigh Nature Preserves Artist in Residence2021 South Arts – Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant2020 United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County – Artist Support Grant2019 United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County – Professional Development Grant2012-13 North Carolina Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship2011 Best in Show, New Works - Artspace, Raleigh, North Carolina, Juror: Melissa Peden. TEXT2020 “Brown and Hazard,” Jenkins, Mark. The Washington Post, 12/18/20, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/dc-art-gallery-shows/2020/12/16/91438c4c-3e31-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html2020 “East City Art Reviews – The Song of Earth Has Many Different Chords at Adah Rose Gallery,” Rousseau, Claudia, Ph.D. East City Art, 11/23/20, https://www.eastcityart.com/reviews/east-city-art-reviews-the-song-of-earth-has-many-different-chords-at-adah-rose-gallery/2018 “Issue 103: Southern Music Issue – North Carolina,” Borné, Eliza. Oxford American, Winter 20182018 “Issue Four: The Pattern,” Baumann, Sacha. Full Blede, March 3, 20182018 “Bookmarking Book Art – Scott Hazard,” Bolick, Robert. Books on Books, 1/7/18,https://books-on-books.com/2018/01/07/bookmarking-book-art-scott-hazard/2017 “OtherPeoplesPixels Interviews Scott Hazard,” OtherPeoplesPixels Blog, 4/27/17,http://blog.otherpeoplespixels.com/otherpeoplespixels-interviews-scott-hazard2015 “Scott Hazard,” Jenkins, Mark. The Washington Post, 10/24/15, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/artist-remakes-useless-stuff-into-well-its-anyones-guess/2015/10/22/5edc3246-7671-11e5-bc80-9091021aeb69_story.html2015 “Construction of the Void: An Interview with Scott Hazard,” Atwood Magazine, 4/22/15, http://atwoodmagazine.com/construction-void-interview-scott-hazard/2015 “Great Scott: Two Very Different Shows Put Together by Randall Scott,” City Paper, 2/3/15, http://www.citypaper.com/arts/visualart/bcp-great-scott-two-very-different-shows-put-together-by-randall-scott-20150203-story.html#page=12014 “Scott Hazard’s Torn Paper Garden Installation Is A New Spin On Nature,” Beautiful Decay, 12/24/14, http://beautifuldecay.com/2014/12/24/scott-hazards-torn-paper-garden-installation-new-spin-nature/2014 “Cutting the Edge: Scott Hazard,” The WILD Magazine, The Motion Issue, June 20142014 “North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship Exhibition,” CAM Raleigh, Exhibition Catalogue, March 20142014 “Text Constructs/Scott Hazard,” gooood, 2/23/14, http://www.gooood.hk/Text-Constructs-Scott-Hazard.htm2012 “Artist Tears Up Raleigh,” The Atlantic CITIES, 12/31/12, http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/12/artist-tears-his-way-through-raleigh/4277/2012 “Scott Hazard,” Glamcult Magazine, Issue 8, October 20122012 “Word Choice/Two Poems,” (Pairing of work with poetry by Jaswinder Bolina) Selection by Moysaenko, Daniel. BOMBLOG, 10/05/12, http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/68742012 “Torn Photos by Scott Hazard,” BOOOOOOOM 7/27/12, http://www.booooooom.com/2012/07/27/torn-photos-by-scott-hazard/2012 “Scott Hazard,” Tartine, Geri. Monster Children Issue 35, June – September 2012 2012 “Photographs for 18 Photographers,” (Interview) Baldwin, Rosecrans. The Morning News, 3/29/12, http://www.themorningnews.org/gallery/photographs-for-18-photographers2012 “Being Drawn Into Multilayered Torn Photographs,” Juxtapoz, 3/25/12, http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/illusions-and-torn-photographs-by-scott-hazard2012 “Clouds, Smoke and Portals Torn into Photographs,” Jobson, Christopher. Colossal Art and Design, 3/21/12, http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/03/clouds-smoke-and-portals-torn-into-photographs/ PRESENTATIONS/WORKSHOPS2024 Curator and Artist Talk, City of Raleigh Block Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina2022 Artist Talk, CAM Raleigh (Contemporary Art Museum), Raleigh, North Carolina2022 Artist Talk, Annie Louise Wilkerson, MD Nature Preserve Park, Raleigh, North Carolina2019 Gallery Talk, Cabarrus Arts Council, Concord, North Carolina2018 Gallery Talk, Artspace, Raleigh, North Carolina2016 Gallery Talk, CAM Raleigh (Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh), Raleigh, North Carolina2014 Juror Talk, Torpedo Factory, Target Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia2014 Gallery Talk, CAM Raleigh (Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh), Raleigh, North Carolina2013 Gallery Talk, Smith Gallery, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina2012 Gallery Talk, Silber Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland2012 Gallery Talk, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia2011 Workshop: The Activated Image, Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia2011 Gallery Talk, Mary Davis Holt Gallery, Salem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina2010 Gallery Talk, Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College, Bel Air, Maryland