Haynes is best known for her unconventional painted portraits of torsos, focusing on queer, trans, cis female and nonbinary bodies.
[2] This project initially began with a self portrait of her own torso in order to confront her own image issues.
Haynes has received numerous awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award,[8] a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting,[9] a MacDowell Fellowship, a Brooklyn Arts Council/New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Community Regrant Award, a Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Grant, and a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant.Haynes' work has been discussed in many publications, including the Washington Post,[10] Hyperallergic,[11][12] Two Coats of Paint,[13] Juxtapoz Magazine,[14] Beautiful Decay Magazine,[15] and the Huffington Post,[16][17] among others.
[20] She has written about her experience with censorship,[21] and chaired a panel on the subject at the College Art Association Conference in 2019.
[22] Haynes' writing has appeared in Hyperallergic,[23] Two Coats of Paint, [24] The Brooklyn Rail,[25] ARTnews,[26] and other publications.