Pamela Hadley is a time-based light artist based in Portland, OR. Using projected minimalist abstract animations while considering or constructing architectural forms, they create immersive environments. They are interested in how embodied viewing changes the scale of time and place and makes us witnesses to the divorce of contemporary culture from these basic realities. Believing that phenomenological experience can be an agent of social change, they seek to make these experiences available to everyone.

NEWS:
Hadley was awarded a Portland Arts Project Grant for 2025 by Portland’s Regional Arts & Culture Council in support of their installation, Precious Beings, which was on view with Terrain Land Art, in August 2025 at Building 5.

Hadley is a recipient of the Ford Family Foundation Golden Spot Residency, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, OR. She was in attendance in Nov. 2024.

MEDIA:
Hadley facilitated a conversation between artists Matthew Bennet Laurents and Jeremy LeGrand about their show, Nirvanamatopoeia, for Carnation Contemporary. Read the transcript here.

Hadley was interviewed as the August/September 2020 Artist-in-Residence with Prairie Ronde Artist Residency in Vicksburg, MI.

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Listen to Hadley discuss her work in an interview with Zinta Aistars, “Art Beat: Art in Light,” WMUK Radio, Kalamazoo, MI.

PAMELA HADLEY

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