About the piece:
John Haverty was born in 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in a seaside community on Buzzards Bay. He earned his BFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and travelled across Europe and South America before continuing his formal training at the Savannah College of Art and Design where he earned his MFA in 2015. Among his awards, Haverty is the Grand Prize winner of the Luxembourg Art Prize 2016. He has been selected as Jerry Goldstein Foundation’s 2014 Emerging Artist of the Year Award and was also selected as a finalist by jury pick for Art Prize 7 in Grand Rapids. Haverty is a former finalist at the 2012 Illustrators of the Future award presented in Hollywood, California. Haverty’s work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Satellite Contemporary, Las Vegas; Mark Miller Gallery, New York City; Copro Gallery, Santa Monica; Non-Fiction Gallery, Savannah; The Boston Center for the Arts, Boston; and Galerie Herve Luxembourg. His paintings have been featured in a number of publications such as New American Paintings, The Tulane Review, American Illustration, and MANiFEST International Drawing Annual.

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