2026 State of the Art Prize, Arkansas

About Danielle Hatch

Bentonville, AR

Danielle Hatch is a Peruvian American artist based in the Arkansas Ozarks. She works in the disciplines of performance, installation, and sculpture to explore what lies underneath the surface of domesticity. Using materials related to home-making and home-building she renders feminine lived experience in tactile ways, exploring womanhood as an identity constructed through narrative. Her work navigates identity formation through the lens of knowledge and expectations passed from one generation to the next, connecting the body with the built environment or the landscape, literature with self. She explores connections between both humans and landscape as a form of feminist world building, a way to imagine a better future based on mutual respect, care, and reciprocity and devoid of the myth of individualism. Her practice is based on a model of reciprocal and evolving collaborative processes which yield collective creation and action. Her work has been exhibited in the US Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and nationally at the AD&A Museum, Santa Barbara; Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville; Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab, Kansas City; The Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Raleigh; and the Tephra ICA, Reston. She is a recipient of a 2024 MacDowell Fellowship.

Danielle Hatch is a Peruvian American artist based in the Arkansas Ozarks. She works in the disciplines of performance, installation, and sculpture to explore what lies underneath the surface of domesticity. Using materials related to home-making and home-building she renders feminine lived experience in tactile ways, exploring womanhood as an identity constructed through narrative. Her work navigates identity formation through the lens of knowledge and expectations passed from one generation to the next, connecting the body with the built environment or the landscape, literature with self. She explores connections between both humans and landscape as a form of feminist world building, a way to imagine a better future based on mutual respect, care, and reciprocity and devoid of the myth of individualism. Her practice is based on a model of reciprocal and evolving collaborative processes which yield collective creation and action. Her work has been exhibited in the US Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and nationally at the AD&A Museum, Santa Barbara; Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville; Mid-America Arts Alliance’s Culture Lab, Kansas City; The Gregg Museum of Art and Design, Raleigh; and the Tephra ICA, Reston. She is a recipient of a 2024 MacDowell Fellowship.