Honourable Mention

Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2025

Haley Manchon

Title:

“Something Will Happen, Someday”

Medium & Dimensions:

Colored pencil and watercolor marker on dura-lar, 11 x 14 in.

About the Artist

Haley Manchon (b. 1996) received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is represented by MK Apothecary gallery and has her work displayed on the 2nd floor of The People’s Store in Lambertville, NJ. She has recently exhibited with Nucleus Portland Gallery; Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia; WOWxWOW; Art Aqua Miami; Art Fair 14C in Jersey City; Surreal Salon 16 at Baton Rouge Gallery in Louisiana; the Derwent Art Prize located at Gallery@OXO in London; and with the Colored Pencil Society of America. Her work has recently been published in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Visionary Magazine, Booooooom’s Tomorrow’s Talent Vol. III, and Manifest Gallery’s International Drawing Annual (INDA 15). She has been a resident artist at Overland Artworks SHELTER (2020), Gilbertsville Expressive Movement (2019) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art’s Currents summer program (2017).

“Something Will Happen, Someday”: reflects on moments of dissociation, where I dream of fabricated events that allow me to “prove my worth” to the people around me. Although the piece was created to recognize this as a foolish and embarrassing habit, the drawing is saccharine in presentation, fully leaning into the daydreams. Her head is wrapped in stylized symbols, both universal and personal, that touch on unrealistic expectations and personal struggles with initiating connection.