With a connection to impressions of natural world phenomena, EJ Hauser’s layered and scraped artworks are defined by their percussive mark-making and deeply saturated colors. In a duet with herself, the artist synchronizes drawing and painting, eventually superimposing the two for a surface that feels both digitized and analog. Throughout her career, Hauser has accumulated an extensive index of forms—mountains, animals, waves—for her fabricated worlds. As markers of energy, Hauser’s paintings function as a burst of vibrancy existing in an everlasting present.

EJ Hauser was born in 1967 and lives and works between Brooklyn, NY, and Ulster County, NY. She received her MFA from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC (1998) and her BFA from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA (1991).

She has mounted solo exhibitions at Anton Kern Gallery WINDOW in New York City, NY (2022); Derek Eller Gallery in New York City, NY (2021); and Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany (2020), among others.

She has participated in group exhibitions such as 2 Years and Change at Olympia in New York City, NY (2023); The Ways of Magic at Troost Gardens in Kansas City, MO (2023); Singing in Unison at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York City, NY (2022); Prisoners' Dilemma at Peninsula Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Metafiguration at Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN (2022); GARDEN at Shrine and Sargent’s Daughter’s in New York City, NY (2019); and elsewhere.

Hauser was a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize (2021) and was selected as a Teiger Mentor in the Arts at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY (Fall 2023).