About


Rae Haynes with Limelight 2026. Photo: Louis Lim

Rae Haynes (she/ they) is a contemporary artist and educator who lives and works in Magadjin/ Brisbane, Australia.

Rae has exhibited widely in independent spaces and art museums, with projects for Outer Space / Melt Festival (2025), The Brisbane Festival (2023), the Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York (2021), Institute of Modern Art (IMA) (2020), and the Museum of Brisbane (2019). 

Rae completed a PhD in Visual Arts (2009) with the support of an Australian Postgraduate Award for research and is a Senior Lecturer (Visual Arts) at QUT. 

Committed to gender ethics in the arts, Rae actively contributes to arts and advocacy organisations and artist-led communities of practice. Rae was a founding member of the feminist art collective LEVEL (2010 — 2018) and is a current member of the CoUNTESS Report. 

www.countess.report

Contact

Email: r.haynes@qut.edu.au



I acknowledge the Turrbal and Yugara peoples as the traditional custodians of the unceded lands on which I live and work.