John Henry Haseltine is an artist and writer based in Livingston, Montana.

 

His book Westward & Miserable, a collection of paintings and stories gathered from his past gallery shows was published by Elk River Books in 2024 and won a High Plains International Book Award. 

 

The Mountain Clown & Other Foul Animals, his solo museum exhibition opened in 2024 at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings and was featured by the New York Times in its seasonal U.S. Gallery and Museum preview. The exhibition presented a fabricated career retrospective of Mable MacKenzie, a fictional children’s storybook author, complete with literary and biographical excerpts, paintings, toys, comics, and a live gallery performance of Haseltine’s one-person show The Phantom Chuckwagon.

 

In September 2025, Haseltine’s second one-person show The Daredevil, chronicling the career and legacy of an unnamed, Butte-born, death-defying motorcyclist premiered during the Livingston Fringe Festival.

 

Haseltine graduated from Emerson College in 2009 with a degree in film production and retains a strong interest in narrative focused art that frequently incorporates performance and storytelling. Sometimes he makes puppets, but they aren’t super functional, and you have to be REALLY careful if you want to use them.