Haley Josephs was born in 1987 in Seattle, Washington and spent her formative years in the city of Pittsburgh. She received her BFA in Painting & Drawing from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2011 and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University in 2014.  She also studied abroad in Italy at Temple University in Rome and again at the American Academy in Rome.

Haley has exhibited locally and internationally.  She was included in Painting Forward at Thomas Erben Gallery in 2016, Too Much of a Good Thing at the Basilica Hudson in Hudson, NY, and had her first solo exhibition, Civil Twilight, at Deli Gallery in Long Island City last spring. 

She currently lives and works in Brooklyn where Brian met up with Haley and they spoke about our mutual early years growing up in Pittsburgh, the Warhol effect, color nostalgia and the value of listening to yourself in the studio.