Jillian Hagadorn (b. Syracuse NY, 1997) is a multidisciplinary visual artist focusing on drawing and painting based in the Syracuse, New York area. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts magna cum laude with a minor in Dance from Alfred University (NYSCC) in 2019. In 2018, she was nominated for the Yale Norfolk Summer School of the Arts. Moved by the power of the figure, she has honed the distinct ability to capture the soul behind a subject’s unique likeness.

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Hagadorn explores the body as the threshold where environment and personhood converge. Through figural paintings, she diaries her life as a woman living in Central NY and questions of sexuality, belonging, and the landscapes that shape us. Pulling inspiration from graphic novels, pop culture, and art nouveau, her paintings are an ode to domesticity and a world that changes with the weather.

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Hagadorn has performed and been featured in exhibitions across the United States and internationally; these solo and group collaborations include This Is How I Remember It (NY, 2017), Residual Habitat (solo show NY, 2019), the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (Prague, 2019), Everything is Different Now (TN, 2020), House Warming (ME, 2023), and PRIDE at Art Haus SYR (NY, 2024). She has also been a resident and scholarship recipient of the Stay Home Gallery (TN, 2021).