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Heather Hart works interdisciplinarily exploring the power in thresholds, questioning dominant narratives, and creating alternatives to them. Among her awards are Anonymous Was A Woman, the Graham Foundation and Joan Mitchell Foundation. She attended the Whitney ISP, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University and the Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize. Hart co-founded Black Lunch Table project, which won a Creative Capital award, Wikimedia Foundation grants, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grants, a Ford Foundation grant, and an Andy Warhol Foundation of Art. Her work has been exhibited at Storm King Art Center, NCMA, Kohler Art Center, Queens Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, University of Buffalo, and University of Toronto among others. She is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, a member of the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums, an external advisor for AUC Art Collective, and a trustee at Storm King Art Center.
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Born in Seattle, WA. Lives and works in NY/NJ.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
2026
Triplet Consciousness, Murate Art Center curated by The Recovery Plan, Florence, Italy (solo)
Flight Paths - Rotte di Volo, American Academy of Rome, Rome, Italy
Conditions of Belonging: Joy, MAAM Museum(tab)Rome, Italy
2024
Oracle of Intimation, Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park at Newfields, Indianapolis, IN
Nourishing Power with Related Tactics In {R}evolution in Action, Edge on the Square, CA
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY
Take Root Among the Stars (Butler) in Follow the North Star, International African American Museum, SC
2023
The Porch Project: Take it to the Bridge, Josephine Sculpture Park, KY (solo)
Distribution of the Sensible, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2022
She Cut Through Worlds, Davidson Gallery, NY (solo)
Northern Oracle, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary (solo)
The Texture of the Weave, Union of Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE (solo)
The Oracle of Connection, Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN (solo)
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2021
Afrotectu(Re)Collection, University of Buffalo Art Gallery, NY (solo)
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2020
Oracle of Caduceus as part of Shelter Is..., ArtYard, Frenchtown, NJ
Oracle of the Twelve Tenses as part of After the Plaster, Queens Museum, NY
Oracle of Conduction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo)
Rented World, Queens Museum, New York, NY
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2019
The Southern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (solo)
Project 1 by ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI (solo)
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2017
Things Are What We Encounter: Dr Charles Smith + Heather Hart, John Michael Kohler Foundation, Sheboygan, WI (solo)
The Oracle of Lacuna, Storm King Art Center, NY (solo)
Oracular Rooftops, Terrain Gallery, Spokane WA (solo)
Oracular Rooftops, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada (solo)
2016
Porch Project: Tarble Tables, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (solo)
The Grace Jones Project, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
RUSH20: 1995-2015, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Porch Project: Black Lunch Tables, Greensboro, NC (solo)
State Park, UC San Diego, CA
Porch Project as part of Do/Tell, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Venturing Out of the Heart of Darkness, Gantt Center, NC
2014
Crossing Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, NY
The Intuitionists, The Drawing Center, NY (collaboration with Steffani Jemison and Jina Valentine)
Harlem Postcards Summer 2014, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
The Porch Project, Figure One Gallery, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (solo)
Through the Parlour, No Longer Empty, NY
2013
Oracular Rooftops, Cornish Alumni Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)
The Western Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off the Mother, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Curator: Sandra Jackson-Dumont (solo)
Hartlands, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA (solo)
2012
The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. Curator: Lauren Haynes (catalogue)
The Eastern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off the Mother, as part of Raw/Cooked, Brooklyn Museum, NY
Curator: Eugenie Tsai, Nominator: Mickalene Thomas (solo)
SELECTED ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND PROGRAMS
2024-present Project for Empty Space, NJ– Artist in Residence
2019 Queenspace, NY
2018 Walentas Sharpe Studio Program, NY
2017 Triangle Arts Association, NY; Artists Editions, Wassaic Project, NY; ExAIR, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2016 McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC
2015 Joan Mitchell Center Residency, New Orleans, LA; South Elm Project, Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC
2014 The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, FL; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2013-15 Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, NY
2013-14 LMCC Workspace, New York, NY
2012-13 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2011 Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop SIP Fellowship, New York, NY
2010 Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia, MN
2008-09 Whitney Museum ISP, New York, NY
2006 Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, NY; Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, ME
SELECTED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2025-2026 American Academy in Rome, Italy, Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize Fellowship
2021 National Endowment for the Arts, Grants for Arts Projects- Artist Communities, (for Josephine Sculpture Park)
2021 Graham Foundation, Project Grant, (for University of Buffalo Art Galleries)
2021 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow at Harvard University
2020 The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts Grant (with Jina Valentine)
2020 Rutgers Research Council Grant
2019 Graham Foundation Research and Development Grant
2019 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Project Grant (with Black Lunch Table)
2019 National Endowment for the Arts (for Josephine Sculpture Park)
2019 Andy Warhol Foundation Grant (with Black Lunch Table)
2018 Anonymous Was A Woman Award
2017-18 Studio Grant, Sugar Hill Real Estate
2016 Creative Capital Award; DIL/IAH Fellowship (with Jina Valentine) UNC Chapel Hill; Jerome Foundation Travel & Study Grant
2015 RHMF Artist Community Engagement Grant; Brooklyn Arts Council Grant; Foundation for the Arts Grant
2014 Awesome Foundation Grant; Harpo Foundation Grant
2013 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant; Awesome Foundation
2012 Visual Art Fellowship, Fine Art Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2011 Artist’s Fellowship Award; Gottlieb Foundation Grant; Harvestworks Educational Grant, New York, NY; Jerome Foundation Travel & Study Grant
2009 NYFA Fellowship
PUBLISHED WRITINGS
Hart, Heather. “Echoes: Speaking from the Threshold.” In Collective Yearning: Black Women
Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum, edited by Dr. Amber Wiley. Rutgers University Press,
2026.
Hart, Heather and jina valentine. “Black Lunch Table.” In Out of Place: Artists, Pedagogy, and
Purpose, edited by Tim Doud and Zoë Charlton. Punctum Books, 2021.
Valentine, Jina, eliza myrie and Heather Hart. “The Myth of the Comprehensive Historical
Archive.” In Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution, edited by Joseph Reagle and
Jackie Koerner. MIT Press, 2020.
Hart, Heather and Jina Valentine. “Another Country.” Art21. September 14, 2018.
https://art21.org/read/another-country/
Hart, Heather, Steffani Jemison, Jina Valentine and Lisa Sigal. Drawing Papers 116: The
Intuitionists, edited by Margaret Sundell. BookMobile, 2014.
Hart, Heather. “Heather Hart.” In Draw it with Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Assignment,
edited by Dushko Petrovich and Roger White. Paper Monument/n+1 Foundation, Inc. 2012.
Valentine, Jina, Heather Hart and Steffani Jemison. “The Present Classification.” Skowhegan Journal (2012): 8-10.
EDUCATION
MFA, 2008, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ with courses at Princeton University
BFA, 1998, Cornish College of the Arts, WA
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