Background
Harmony Hammond was born on February 8, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She is a daughter of William Joseph Hammond and Harmony R. (Jensen) Hammond.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
In 1967, Harmony received her Bachelor of Arts degree, graduating from the University of Minnesota.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
In 1967, Harmony received her Bachelor of Arts degree, graduating from the University of Minnesota.
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Harmony Hammond was born on February 8, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She is a daughter of William Joseph Hammond and Harmony R. (Jensen) Hammond.
In 1967, Harmony received her Bachelor of Arts degree, graduating from the University of Minnesota.
In 1972, Harmony co-founded the A.I.R. Gallery, which became the first women's cooperative art gallery in New York. Some time later, in 1978, she curated "A Lesbian Show" at 112 Greene Street Workshop. Two years later, her works were exhibited at "Great American Lesbian Art Show". In 1999, another exhibition, exntitled "Out West", was curated by Hammond.
In the late 1970's and early 1980's, Harmony created sculptures. Some of them are "Bags" (1971), "Presences" (1972), "Floorpieces" (1973) and "Wrapped Sculptures" (1977-1984).
Also, in 1988, she was appointed a teacher at the University of Arizona in Tucson, a post she held till 2005. Currently, Hammond lives in Galisteo, New Mexico, and teaches at workshops, giving lectures on feminist and lesbian art.
Harmony helped to found the feminist art movement in New York in the early 1970's and also co-founded the A.I.R. Gallery in 1972. She received many awards and grants, including Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (1989), Guggenheim Foundation Grant (1991), Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (1998), Andrea Frank Foundation Grant (2000), Lifetime Achievement Award from Women's Caucus for Art (2014) and others.
Also, her works are kept in permanent collections of different museums and institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New Mexico Museum of Art and others.
Quotations: "To name, to make present. If you do not name, you do not have a cultural history, and if you don't have a cultural history, you do not exist. Everybody understood that."
Harmony is a member of Women's Caucus for Art, College Art Association, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and others.
Harmony married Stephen Clover in 1963. Their marriage produced one child — Tanya Hammond. In 1970, the couple divorced. In 1973, Hammond publicly came out as a lesbian.
