Dan Hays makes images that present the natural world as tightly controlled, heavily mediated, and yet strangely seductive. Showcased in views of animal cages painted in punchy, heightened colors or pixilated paintings of woodland that feature psychedelic effects, his techniques invest the domestic and everyday with surprising new meanings. Hays has exhibited his work globally and has won various awards, including the UK’s prestigious John Moores prize for painting in 1997.