Elizabeth Pedinotti Haynes

Through photography, moving image, writing, and collage, Elizabeth Pedinotti Haynes ruptures, disassembles, and remakes her understanding of domestic life, motherhood, and gendered aging. Her work reflects on the ideological hand-me-downs, hidden agendas, and systems of value that she has absorbed and that continue to shape her experience of family life. She seeks to unsettle expectations of productivity, self-sacrifice, and coherence while searching for what feels authentic and humane.

Pedinotti Haynes is interested in “miracles” that have entirely rational explanations but are somehow still profoundly felt, even when they are extremely mundane. Her work is haunted by supernatural, superstitious, gothic, and absurd presences, collapsing distinctions between Jesus, ghosts, fairies, monsters, mothers, children, and capitalism and allowing them to occupy interchangeable roles without skepticism or judgment. She is fascinated by the problem of visually recreating what a memory feels like—externalizing the internal and layered experience of remembering.

Through this work, she continually asks: How does an experience compound into memory? How does memory become ideology? How does ideology become embodied as a way of moving through the world? How can we separate what is meaningful from what has been imposed?

Elizabeth Pedinotti Haynes is a multidisciplinary artist living in Upstate New York. Her work considers the physical and metaphysical detritus of the everyday and its entanglements with expectation, role-playing, memory, and the fallible histories and myths surrounding domestic life.

Her most recent project, Family Table, was selected for a solo exhibition at the 2025 Copenhagen Photo Festival. She was also selected to participate in the Upstate Photo Biennial at CPW Kingston, and her book of photography and short stories will be published by Saint Lucy Books in fall 2026.

Pedinotti Haynes’ work has been recognized by Der Greif, Dear Dave,, Musée Magazine, and Lenscratch. She is the recipient of a Discovery Award at the Encontros da Imagem Festival in Braga, Portugal, the Montana Artist Refuge Award, and several fellowship residencies. She has been shortlisted for the Aperture Prize, the Form Photo Award, and the Athens Photo Festival, and has participated in solo and group exhibitions internationally and throughout the United States.