About
Isadora Hale is a Tucson, Arizona-based artist working primarily in acrylics on canvas. She grew up in the Bay Area, where she started her career doing graphic design for advertising agencies. While this may seem several steps away from fine art, she feels that the attention to detail, bold use of color, visual storytelling, and crisp, clean aesthetic that are evident in her paintings can be credited to those years spent creating ads, brochures, logos, packaging and websites. As a whole, her art encourages people to see their surroundings not just as a moment in time, but as something affected by their specific life experiences. This mind’s eye perspective makes image perception a bit fluid, which in turn allows her paintings to blur the lines of reality. Appreciating how diverse experiences can affect perception creates empathy and understanding, and she hopes to encourage this through her art. She paints with an often surreal and humorous twist, adding lightness and fun to art that has a more complex meaning for those who choose to look deeper. In 2023 she received the Arizona Commission on the Arts Research & Development Grant, with which she created a collection for her first major solo show titled “My Southwest View”. She also received the Carmody Foundation Art for Good Grant in 2024, was short listed for the 2025 Nice Art Grant, was a Spotlight Artist at Artlink’s 2025 Art d-Core Gala, and received the 2025 Arts Foundation of Tucson and Southern Arizona stART Grant.