Hayden Richer is a ceramic artist based in Detroit, Michigan. Her interest lies in the preservation of stark weight, mass, and their sculptural convergence into furniture. Richer has been a featured artist in New Norm Magazine and with Sight Unseen in both their exhibitions and publications. She has shown consecutively as part of New York Design Week, Detroit Month of Design, Lake Como Design Festival and Milan Design Week in representation with Movimento Club. Most recently, Richer showed at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, as part of the Idea House III Curated Design Exhibition.

"My interest lies in the preservation of loss as stark but poetic weight and mass, and its sculptural convergence into furniture. Emphasizing opposing ideas of gradual growth and weathering, my works often present a slow storyline along an almost tectonically scaled timeline -one of quiet and earnest growth.

Methods of layering and stacking convey the timeline of their that have been calcified in a moment. Using ceramic, glass and nickel -not in contrast to one another, but rather as tonal shifts, fading in and out, give subtle oscillations in their presence, investigating to what extent does something exist. Time folds in on itself. It is this uncertainty in beginning, middle, and end that intrigues me -creating a sense of “un-placeability”. I examine how abscess can take up space and ideas of weight and loss becoming land-like markers in our intimate domestic landscapes."