Hayley Nichols is an interdisciplinary artist and designer from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She experiments with ways of performing careful attention, studying the marks, movements, and sounds created through daily rituals. Nichols is preoccupied with the unintended: traces left by unconscious social gestures, slow wear on utilitarian objects, the ephemera of mundane habits. Through drawing, photography, printmaking, ceramics, and sound, she facilitates a subtle noticing of the world. Nichols holds a BFA from Oklahoma State University, where she studied graphic design and studio art. In 2020, she returned to her hometown after a decade living and working in New York.