Hailey Guzik

Guzik's practice imagines hybrid ecologies that investigate the impact of cultural systems and technologies on the ecological crisis. They use painting, video, 3D, light, sound, electronics, algorithms, digital fabrication, and XR technologies to create immersive installations that question capital, colonial, technoscientific, and gender-based systems affecting the environment.

Refiguring the garden as a site of entangled intimacy and a space for staying with the trouble of worlding, Guzik's work intertwines fact/fiction, present/future, and real/virtual binaries through analog and digital technologies to explore what it means to tend to and with informatic systems through ongoing processes of alteration and transformation.

Tending as a practice of care guides their approach, shaping speculative gardens composed of video, light, sound, computational systems, and both real and virtual plants. Experienced through exhibition, scenography and audiovisual performance, these works provide audiences with contemplative environments to reflect on their relationship to nature and consider how acts of worldbuilding shape the affective and political realities of the climate crisis.

Hailey Guzik is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher based in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal, QC. Supported by ArtsNB, Canada Council for the Arts, and CALQ, their work has been presented at Confederation Centre Art Gallery, MUTEK, This Town is Small, Everyseeker, and HIFF, amongst others. Their research on environmental care and artistic practice has been presented at Wild Kin: Queer Ecologies Symposium (2025) and published in Shorelines: Climate Concerns and Creativity (2021). Originally from Menagoesg / Saint John, NB. Guzik holds a BFA from Mount Allison University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Intermedia at Concordia University, supported by SSHRC and the Peter N. Thomson Family Graduate Scholarship.

Profile image of Hailey Guzik taken at Ada X (2023) by Vjosana Shkurti. 

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Hailey Guzik. Project still from alter_florescence (2024)

Hailey Guzik. SOS v.0.1.0 (symbiotic orchid search), 2025