Background
Hart was born in Seattle, and currently lives and works in New New York
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Heather Hart
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She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, studied at Princeton University in New Jersey and received an Master of Fine Arts from Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Career
Hart"s work has been exhibited worldwide including Brooklyn Museum, Olympic Sculpture Park, Real Art Ways, 92YTribeca, Jersey City Museum, New York University Galleries, 2B Gallery in Budapest, Rush Arts Gallery, Portland Art Center, Soil Art Gallery, Studio Museum in Harlem, Islip Art Museum, Museum of Art and Craft in Japan, and Art in General. She has collaborated in pieces by Pablo Helguera and Raphael Ortiz. Her work has been included in exhibitions curated by Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas.
Hart has been an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Santa Fe Art Institute, Franconia Sculpture Park, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, The Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency in New Orleans, the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, Whitney Independent Study Program.
Hart’s work appears in Jamaica Flux: Workspace & Windows 2007, The Field Guide to the Rather Round Table, Neo-Constructivism: Art, Architecture and Activism, The Feminine Mystique: Contemporary Artists Respond, and EAF06.
Achievements
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She received awards from Socrates Sculpture Park as part of their Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2006, from New York Foundation of the Arts for their NYFA Fellowship in 2009, a Jerome Travel Grant in 2011, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2013. Heather is also co-founder of the Black Lunch Table, an radical archiving project, which was awarded a 2016 Emerging Fields Grant from Creative Capital.
