Faye Hays is an artist and product designer.

Faye is a product designer, weaver, visual artist, and mother. As a product designer has led startups to Series A and won design awards while building supportive communities for women and non-binary colleagues in male-dominated environments. She left her leadership role at a blockchain analytics company to care for her infant, and then returned to tech as a Senior Product Designer at Meta where she now works.

Faye’s background in music and architecture contribute an intimate understanding of rhythm and space to her work in sculpture, printmaking, and weaving. Her sculptures define space through its voids, framing the loss of traditional knowledge eroded by the globalization of a consumer identity. She studies the ideas of labor and production through the lens of motherhood, exploring the ironies in how patriarchal society depends on the labor of motherhood while simultaneously penalizing those who provide it. She’s a former member of the Gowanus Studio Space where she focused on printmaking. Faye uses solely child safe media and tools as a means to combat the exclusion of laboring mothers from the art world.

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Art Shows
2019 Printmakers Anonymous Meetup Show, Gowanus Studio Space
2019 International Print Center New York (IPCNY), ”Published by the Artist”
2018 Soho Photo Gallery, “Alternative Photo Processes”
2018 Manhattan Graphics Center, “The Print Effect”

Education
Doctor of Design, Harvard University
M.Sc. Urbanisation & Development, London School of Economics
Master of Architecture in Urban Design, Univ. College London
Bachelor Environmental Design, Texas A&M University

Tech Work
Head of Design & Senior Product Manager, Messari.io
Creative Lead, Quidd.co
Design Director, Village for Parents
Design Director, Mavizon
Adjunct Professor, Architecture, Northeastern University
Teaching Fellow, Architecture, Harvard University