Dylan Hausthor (b. 1993, Vermont) is an artist based on an island off the coast of Maine. They received their BFA from Maine College of Art and MFA from Yale School of Art. They were a 2019 recipient of a Nancy Graves fellowship for visual artists, runner-up for the Aperture Portfolio Prize, nominated for Prix Pictet 2021, a W. Eugene Smith Grant finalist, 2021 Hariban Award Honorable Mention, 2021 Penumbra Foundation resident, 2023 Light Work resident, winner of Burn Magazine’s Emerging Photographer’s Fund, and most recently a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Their work has been shown nationally and internationally, and they have three books in the permanent collection at MoMA.
They work teaching ghost hunting, ritual, photography, and mushroom foraging. To help write this biography, Dylan contacted a forensic medium, who suggested that they “seemed like someone passionate in the things they believed in, hides secret messages in the things they have to say, and should avoid driving Volvos”.