Work samples

  • Horse Girl Girl
    Horse Girl Girl

    48"x48"x2"

    2024

    oil on panel, wax, horse hair, horse bit keychain, nickel

  • Recession Indicator
    Recession Indicator

    2023

    24"x10"x36"

    steel, glassine, newsprint, salt

  • Death: ACME Patents Immortality
    Death: ACME Patents Immortality

    2024

    steel, oil on canvas

    about 48"x48"

  • Leashed
    Leashed

    2024

    poplar, sterling silver, plastic dove, shell

    13"x5"x10"

About Hedy

Hedy Ward (b.2001, Albuquerque, NM) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Baltimore, MD. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2024). Ward's work explores leisure and play as natural and inherent necessities.

She has shown work in Albuquerque, NM, Marfa, TX, and Baltimore, MD, notably the 2025 Sondheim Semifinalist Exhibition at the Peale Museum, and a solo show at the Gateway Gallery at MICA, both in Baltimore.

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Cartoon Darkness

This collection of work was primarily created for my undergraduate thesis, which a few select older pieces from my undergrad career. Much of this collection focuses on a theme of utilizing the visual language of cartoon to digest and critique ongoing policital, social, and technological happenings. 

  • School Lunch
    School Lunch
  • 75 Hard
    75 Hard
  • Heavyweight
    Heavyweight
  • MegaDeathBattleSwan
    MegaDeathBattleSwan
  • Dimly
    Dimly
  • Semiotic Tablet
    Semiotic Tablet
  • Recession Indicator
    Recession Indicator
  • Death: ACME Patents Immortality
    Death: ACME Patents Immortality
  • Combat: Half-time Shoulder Rub
    Combat: Half-time Shoulder Rub
  • Love: Kissing-induced Nausea
    Love: Kissing-induced Nausea