Haynes Riley (b.1984 North Little Rock, Arkansas) is an artist, curator, designer, and the founder of Good Weather. His work is rooted in relationship building, research, and intellectual generosity; fostered by the generative dynamics of collaboration—through exhibition-making, publishing, and advocacy of artists. He is also founder of South Center Institute, a not-for-profit organization invested in experimentation and commissioning new work within an integrated supportive infrastructure in Little Rock and North Little Rock, Arkansas. South Center Institute works closely with artists during the ideation, research, production and realization of ambitious new projects.

Selected solo exhibitions include An attitude that cares at David Salkin Creative (Chicago), Grand Opening at Brittany (Vallejo, California), An attitude you can wear at TOPS (Memphis), and Always at The Hills Esthetic Center (Chicago). He has participated in exhibitions at Arturo Bandini (Los Angeles), Baader-Meinhof (Omaha), Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills), Coco Hunday (Tampa), The Green Gallery (Milwaukee), The Luminary (St. Louis), Sediment (Richmond), Threewalls (Chicago), and Western Pole (Chicago), among others. His writing has been published in Portable Gray (Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2023), OEI (#82–83: Art in the Age of Kleptomania), Temporary Art Review (To Make A Public: Temporary Art Review 2011–2016), and online with Burnaway and Humor and the Abject. Riley has organized exhibitions through various platforms, including friendsh.jp, The Bedfellow’s Club, Girl/Boy Gallery (which he founded while participating in the Ox-Bow School of Art Fall Artist Residency), and independently. He received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2011 and studied at The Mountain School of Arts (MSA^) in 2019. Riley lives and works between Chicago, Illinois and North Little Rock, Arkansas.

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