About
Bio
Danielle Hatch (b. 1983) is an interdisciplinary Peruvian American artist based in the Arkansas Ozarks. Born and raised in Southern California, she received her BA in Architecture from Wellesley College and MFA in Spatial Studies from UC-Santa Barbara. She currently teaches at the University of Arkansas.
In her site specific installations, sculptures, and performances, Hatch makes women’s lived experiences and aesthetic interventions into the built environment visible beyond traditionally domestic spaces. She applies the techniques of quilting and other needlework, often on a monumental scale, to create biomorphic designs that contrast the sometimes harsh, inorganic geometry of contemporary architecture.
Hatch received a 2024 MacDowell Fellowship, and her work has been exhibited across the U.S. and internationally, including at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale (2025), the AD&A Museum in Santa Barbara, CA, the Gregg Museum of Art and Design in Raleigh, NC, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR, Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab in Kansas City, MO, and the Tephra ICA Arts Festival in Reston, VA.
Artist Statement
Working across performance, installation, and sculpture, I explore beneath the surface of domesticity, framing womanhood as an identity constructed through narrative and community. Drawing from my cultural heritage and experiences as a mother, I use the materials of home-making and home-building to give form to the tensions within maternal archetypes.
In my site specific installations, informed by my study of architecture, I treat the design of space as a dialogue that includes attention to sense of place, often responding to women’s histories and the idea of belonging over time. My “invasive craft” installations counter the rigid geometries of contemporary architecture with soft, hospitable materials. Inspired by organic growth and local flora, I cover structures with ruffles resembling petals, curtains, and skirts, asserting women’s labor and aesthetics in public view while beautifully unsettling attempts to impose order.
In performances, I embody the feminine quest for perfection, highlighting both the generosity of nourishing others and the accompanying self-erasure. My sculptures link the body to architecture, landscape, or literature, often while reclaiming quilting, needlework, and other gendered crafts as tools for navigating identity through inherited knowledge and expectations.
Centering a practice of collaborative making sustained by female friendships, My work links care for both humanity and the landscapes we inhabit, advocating a future based on mutual care, respect and reciprocity and devoid of the myth of individualism.
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Education
The University of California Santa Barbara, M.F.A., Spatial Studies, 2008.
Wellesley College, B.A., Architecture, 2005.
Syracuse University, Pre-Architecture Program in Florence, 2004.
Public Art
Of Pleasure, Of Curiosity, Of Intelligence, The Gregg Museum, Raleigh, NC, 2025.
All Is in Motion, Is Growing, Is You, Tephra ICA, Reston, VA, 2024.
All the Petals Packed Inside Her, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, MO, 2024.
More Delicious, More Lovely, More Beautiful, Live in America, Springdale, AR 2023.
Tent Cozies, Format Festival, Bentonville, AR 2023.
Hard Feelings, 202 Railside, Springdale, AR 2023.
You Find Yourself in a Swirl of History, The Jones Center, Springdale, AR, Fall 2022-present.
She’s All Things To Some People, Interform Art Annual Exhibition, Perrodin Supply Co, Springdale, AR, 2021.
Guide These My Hands, Public Art Advisory Commission, Train Station Park, Bentonville, AR, 2021.
Trapped, Spokane Transit Authority Pavilion, Spokane, Washington, June 2009.
Solo Exhibitions
All The Soarings of My Mind Begin in My Blood, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2023-2024.
Group Exhibitions
Porch: An Architecture of Generosity, U.S. Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, May-Nov 2025.
Cut, Paste, & Beyond: Techniques & Dreamscapes in Contemporary American Collage, Chapel Hill Public Library, Oct - Dec 2024.
Materializing Mormonism: Trajectories in Contemporary LDS Art, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, 2024.
Fast, Assembly Biennial, Springdale, Arkansas, June 2023.
Soft Power, The Medium, Springdale, AR May 2023.
Gathering Again, Argenta Library, Little Rock, Arkansas, Oct 2022.
My Body Was a Lonely House, 21C Bentonville, Arkansas, May 2022.
Nostalgia, NWA Mall, Fayetteville, Arkansas April 2022.
Certain Women, Anthony’s Fine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 2021.
Resilient Together, Fenix Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Aug 2021.
Connection, Dispatch Gallery, Chicago, April 2021.
Born Out of This, Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, Utah, January 2021.
Sewn In, Fenix Gallery, Fayetteville, Arkansas, March 2020.
Relevance, Bastion Gallery, Fort Smith, Arkansas, August 2019.
11th International Art Competition, Church History Museum, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2019.
Motherboard, Saranac Art Projects, Spokane, Washington, January 2012.
Love Ate, Saranac Art Projects, Spokane, Washington, January 2011.
Porch Art, The Porch Gallery, Carpinteria, California, May 2008.
Lasting Impressions, University Art Museum, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California, May 2008.
20 Please and Light on the Salt, CCS Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, February 2008.
Residencies/Awards
2026 Vermont Studio Center Fellow
2025 MacDowell Fellow
2022 Creative Exchange Fund Curatorial Grant, Springdale, AR.
2021 Cache Artist Residency, Bentonville, AR.
2021 Collaboration and Community Award, Surface Design International Exhibition in Print
2021 Jones Center Design Team Artist
2019 Artists 360 Project Grant Recipient
Panelist/Speaker/Workshops
2025, Workshop Presenter, US Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale.
2025, Workshop Presenter, YoungArts Week, Miami, FL.
2024, Speaker, Earth Day RTCA, Tephra ICA, Reston, VA.
2024, Panelist, Artist Creative Fund, Tulsa, OK.
2024, National Reviewer, YoungArts Competition, Miami, FL.
2024, Panelist, Menstrual Equity Panel, The Medium, Springdale, AR. A Panel addressing the complex issue of period poverty, fostering inclusivity, and actively destigmatizing menstruation within the Northwest Arkansas community.
2024, Panelist, Lunder Institute Program, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR.
2023, Panelist, Fast Artists Talk,Assembly Biennial, Springdale, AR.
2022, Speaker, Artist 360: Artist Talk. Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR.