Artist Bio
Australian artist/animator Sohan Ariel Hayes creates moving works that push spatial technology boundaries through immersive environments including projection, virtual reality and interactive video. His animations illuminate connections between humanity and nature, reflecting on beauty’s fragility. Beginning in games development with award-winning Windy Towers (1999), Sohan established technical foundations for later visual effects and expanded cinema. As pvi collective’s artistic associate and HITLAB(NZ) mentee, he developed the award-winning location-based game Deviator (2012-2025). A regular Perth Festival contributor, Sohan served as animation director for Home (2016) and Boorna Waanginy (2017-2024). His extensive credits span film (The Paper Tale, Edge of Life) and immersive media (Future History of the Mid-West, Deviator), with works represented in numerous collections.
Selected Previous Works
Perth Institue of Contemporary Arts — PICA — runs a year round program of art, exhibitions, contemporary performance, dance, theatre, music and events. We’re home to one of the largest art exhibition and gallery spaces in Australia and are known for the leading role we play in supporting artists to present challenging ideas and boundary-defining new work.
