Hali Barthel's practice investigates how the outside world accumulates inside objects, and how the spaces we inhabit, including digital ones, shape the things we live with.

Working in furniture and sculpture, she treats salvage and reuse as a method of investigation, tracing how objects move between industrial contexts, landscapes, and domestic life. She is currently based in Taipei on a Fulbright Fellowship, researching the relationship between place, materiality, and emerging technology.

Hali holds a degree in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and is based between New Haven and Providence.