About the Artist:
Terry Hastings
Terry Hastings is a Palm Springs–based artist working across photography and digital collage. With roots in fashion and theatre, his multidisciplinary practice explores movement, color, and identity through layered compositions that merge spontaneity with structured design.
Hastings’ work includes the award-winning Water series, minimalist digital pieces developed during the COVID-19 lockdown, and narrative photocollages that bridge cinematic aesthetics with contemporary themes. He has exhibited at the Palm Springs Art Museum, Riverside Art Museum, and Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, with media coverage including features in The Desert Sun and Palm Springs Life.
His recent focus includes the Four Elements photographic series, digital minimalist compositions, and teaching AI-based tools for artistic promotion.
Terry Hastings grew up in the small town of Jordan, Minnesota, where early passions for rhythm and storytelling found expression through piano, drums, and the high school speech team. Graduating as salutatorian, he pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Theatre at California State University, Northridge. There, his artistic voice expanded through acting, directing, and even composing original musical theatre pieces.
After returning to Minnesota, Hastings opened a clothing store in Minneapolis—an entrepreneurial chapter that unexpectedly sparked his love for photography in 2003. What began as a curious click of the shutter soon grew into a vibrant visual practice rooted in composition, narrative, and emotion.
In 2009, he relocated to Palm Springs, where his artistic journey fully flourished. The desert’s stark light, cinematic skies, and gleaming poolscapes became both backdrop and muse. Today, his work spans photography and digital art, blending theatrical roots with minimalist aesthetics, spontaneity with thoughtful structure.
CV:
CV stands for Curriculum Vitae, which is Latin for
"Look what I did Mom!"... I mean “course of life.”
TERRY HASTINGS
CV current 2025:
Shows:
Cinema Diverse: Palm Springs 2021
FEATURED ARTIST
Palm Springs Art Museum
Artist Council Exhibit 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Stephen Baumbach Achievement in Photography 2018
Preston Ormsby Award 2017
Community Award 2015
The Galen Art Museum Palm Desert, CA
Artist Council Exhibit 2019, 2021, 2022
Southern California/Baja Biennial 2017
San Diego Art Institute
Brownsville Museum of Fine Art
Biennial Honorable Mention
Santa Paula Museum, Santa Paula, CA
Nov. 2016 - Feb. 2017
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
December 2013
Gainesville Fine Art Assoc. HEAT, Gainesville FL
August 2024
JAG Gallery, Key West, FL
2024
OCCCA, Surely You Jest, Santa Ana, CA
May 2023
Desert Open Studios, Cathedral City
2021, 2022, 2023, 2025
PS Modernism Studio Tour
February 2025
Tom of Finland, Art and Culture Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2022, 2023, 2024
Cathedral City Public Arts Commission Quarterly Show. CCPL
May 2025
A View at the Vault: Angel View, Palm Desert, CA
November 2024
Altered State: Juried Photography Show, Palm Springs, CA
August 2024
LA ArtCore Brewery Annex Los Angeles, CA
Feb. 2018 Honorable Mention
Feb. 2017, July 2017 Crowd Favorite Award
Desert Art Center, Palm Springs, CA
Feb. 2017 Commissioner Award
Feb. 2018
St. Paul Art Crawl, St. Paul MN
Fall 2016, April 2017 Media Award, Fall 2017
DAB Art, Ventura Ca
Summer 2018
Seattle Erotic Art Fair Seattle, WA
April 2017
St. Tammany LA
July 2017
Hilton Head Biennale, Hilton Head, SC
May 2017
Gallery 114 - Portland, OR
Jan. 2017
Nude Nite, Orlando & Tampa FL
Feb. 2017
Fusion Gallery, Palm Springs
Second Place "Color" contest
Studio Channel Islands - Abundance
Third Place Oct. 2016
UC Riverside - Palm Desert
PSAM AC March 2016, 2017
Barracks Art Show, Cathedral City, CA
BEST IN SHOW, September 2015
Woodman/Shimko Gallery, Provincetown, MA
April - October 2015
Woodman/Shimko Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
February 2013 - May 2015
Joshua Tree Art Gallery, Joshua Tree, CA
June 2015, June 2014, December 2013
Archangel Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
One Shot May
UC Riverside -Palm Desert
DEEP (Two-person show) April 2015
Shifting Sands (Two-person show) October 2014
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair
February 2015
Art Resources Gallery, Minneapolis, Edina
July 2013 - August 2015
Joseph Wise Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
October 2013 - May 2014
Stephen Archdeacon Gallery, Palm Springs
November 2011 - February 2013
Speaking Engagements:
DAC – AI is your Friend – 2025
PS Modernism Week – Discovering our Modern Modernists - 2025
DAC – The Business of Art - 2024
DAC, AC, HAD, SDWS – Selling Art on the Internet -2023
UCR – Palm Desert – Zoom presentation series – 2020-21
Teat Time with Terry – a local art show and discussion
Palm Springs Art Museum -
Art and the Internet - Spring 2018, Fall 2017
Water - October 2015
Janssen ArtSpace Palm Springs
The Planets - November 2019
Palm Springs Writers Guild -
Social Media and the Artist
UCR- Palm Desert -
A Decade in the Desert - October 2019
Art and the Internet - March 2017
Judge and Jury - April 2017
Sun City Photography Club
March 2016
Sun City Hiking Club
March 2015
Crafton Hills College
November 2014, 2015
Articles, Photos and Interviews:
Eye on the Desert KESQ
Nov 2024. 2023, 2022. 2019, 2017
Palm Springs Arts Patron Magazine
Winter 2015 Spring 2016
Desert Outlook Magazine
June 2015 cover
The Desert Sun cover of Arts and Culture section
Sunday May 3, 2015
CV Weekly
October 16, 2015, October 2017
The Sand Canyon Review
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Artist Council Exhibition Catalog
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Colliding Worlds Radio
May 2013, Oct 2014, Nov 2015, July 2016
Design Design December 2012
iFitness Singapore April 2014
My CITY Everyday August 2013 cover
LIVE Magazine August 2013
Desert Outlook November 2012
Desert Star August 30, 2012
Desert Outlook Summer 2012
Colliding Worlds Video November 2012
InStyle Magazine October 2008
Huffington Post April 2012, 2013
numerous Coachella Valley News and information spots.
Fire May 2021
RRDE: Seasons of Minnesota September 2020
Planets October 2019
Palm Springs Pool Boy July 2019
Earth October 2017
Pool Dreams March 2016
Wind November 2015
Water April 2015
Bella Donna May 2007
