Harriet Bart

Harriet Bart was born in 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, and earned a degree in textiles from the University of Minnesota in 1976.{{Cite web |last=Regan |first=Sheila |title=The Many Sides of Harriet Bart, From 1970s to Today |url=https://hyperallergic.com/549714/harriet-bart-abracadabra-and-other-forms-of-protection-weisman-art-museum/ |website=Hypoallergic}} {{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.harrietbart.com/about |access-date=2025-05-09 |website=Harriet Bart |language=en-US}} At the age of 19, she married and went on to have three children. Before pursuing art, Bart worked as a dental hygienist.{{Cite web |last=Regan |first=Sheila |date=2020-04-07 |title=The Many Sides of Harriet Bart, From 1970s to Today |url=https://hyperallergic.com/549714/harriet-bart-abracadabra-and-other-forms-of-protection-weisman-art-museum/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}

Bart creates evocative content through the narrative power of objects, the theater of installation, and the intimacy of artists books. She has a deep and abiding interest in the personal and cultural expression of memory; it is at the core of her work. Using bronze and stone, wood and paper, books and words, everyday and found objects, Bart's work signifies a site, marks an event, and draws attention to imprints of the past as they live in the present. She was the twenty-year collaborator of German artist Helmut Löhr until his death. Bart has been working collaboratively with Boston-based artist Yu-Wen Wu since 2010.

Bart's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Germany, and she has completed more than a dozen public art commissions in the United States, Japan, and Israel. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Bush Foundation, McKnight Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, NEA Arts Midwest, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Since 2000, Bart has published eleven artists books and has won three Minnesota Book Awards, most recently in 2015 for Ghost Maps. Her work is represented in notable collections, including the Jewish Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Weisman Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry. She is a guest lecturer, curator, and a founding member of the Women's Art Registry of Minnesota{{Cite book |last=Inglot |first=Joanna |title=WARM: A Feminist Art Collective in Minnesota |publisher=Weisman Art Museum |year=2007 |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota}} and the Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art in Minneapolis, MN.

• Weisman Art Museum, Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection – Minneapolis (2020){{Cite web |title=Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection |url=https://wam.umn.edu/harriet-bart-abracadabra-and-other-forms-protection-0 |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=Weisman Art Museum}}
• Driscoll Babcock, New York (2016, 2013, 2011){{Cite web|url=http://www.driscollbabcock.com/exhibitions/installation/harriet-bart-strong-silent-type|title=Harriet Bart: Strong Silent Type|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318111558/http://www.driscollbabcock.com/exhibitions/installation/harriet-bart-strong-silent-type|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 18, 2017|access-date=}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.driscollbabcock.com/exhibitions/works/harriet-bart-locus#works|title=Harriet Bart: Locus|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519040549/http://www.driscollbabcock.com/exhibitions/works/harriet-bart-locus#works|url-status=usurped|archive-date=May 19, 2020|access-date=}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.driscollbabcock.com/exhibitions/works/harriet-bart-drawn-in-smoke|title=Harriet Bart: Drawn in Smoke|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208015133/http://www.driscollbabcock.com/exhibitions/works/harriet-bart-drawn-in-smoke|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 8, 2016|access-date=}}
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2015, 2010, 2009)
• Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul (2015, 2013, 1995)
• Minnesota Center for Book Arts (2015, 2012, 2011, 2007, 1994)
• CAFA Art Museum, Beijing (2012)
• Law Warschaw Gallery at Macalester College, St. Paul (2012)
• New York Center for Book Arts, New York (2012, 2006)
• Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis (2012, 2007, 2006, 1998, 1997)
• Boston Athenæum (2011)
• Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis (2011, 1989, 1984)
• King Saint Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár (2006)
• San Francisco Center for Book Art (2006)
• Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe (2003)
• Klingspor Museum, Offenbach (2003)
• Museum of Art and Design, New York (2003)
• Galerie Volker Marschall, Düsseldorf (2002)
• Columbia College, Chicago (2002)
• Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis (2000, 1988, 1982)
• The Jewish Museum, New York (1996)
• Galerie Henn, Maastrict (1995)
• Galerie Horst Dietrich, Berlin (1995)
• Ibaraki Central Library Gallery, Ibaraki City Osaka (1992)
• W.A.R.M. Gallery (1986, 1977)

• Yaddo Residency (2018)
• McKnight Artist Fellowship (2017)
• Minnesota Book Artist Award, Ghost Maps (2015)
• McKnight Grant for Artists Finalist (2015)
• Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant (2013)
• McKnight Foundation Project Grant Finalist (2013)
• Forecast McKnight Foundation Mid-Career Public Artist Professional Development Grant (2012)
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency (2010)
• Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship Finalist (2012)
• Minnesota Book Award, The Poetry of Chance Encounters (2004)
• Minnesota Book Award, Garment Register (2002)
• Partnership 2000 – A Cultural Exchange Encounter (2001)
• Bush Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship (2000)
• MCAD/McKnight Foundation Fellowship (1999)
• Jerome Foundation Sculpture Plaza Commission (1996)
• Arts Midwest/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship (1993)
• Mac Dowell Colony Fellowship (1990)

• Boston Athenæum{{Cite web|url=https://cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/digital/collection/p13110coll7/search/searchterm/harriet%20bart|title=Boston Athenæum – Harriet Bart|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=}}
• Brown University
• Columbia University
• Duke University
• The Jewish Museum{{Cite web|url=https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/4940-caged-history|title=The Jewish Museum|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=}}
• Library of Congress
• Metropolitan Museum of Art{{Cite web|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?q=Harriet%20Bart&perPage=20&sortBy=Relevance&offset=0&pageSize=0|title=Metropolitan Museum of Art – Harriet Bart|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=}}
• Minneapolis Institute of Art{{Cite web|url=https://collections.artsmia.org/search/artist:%22Harriet%20Bart%22|title=Minneapolis Institute of Art – Harriet Bart|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=}}
• Minnesota Historical Society
• National Gallery of Art
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• New York Public Library
• Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry
• Smith College
• University of Minnesota
• University of Washington
• Walker Art Center{{Cite web|url=https://walkerart.org/collections/artists/harriet-bart|title=Walker Art Center|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=}}
• Weisman Art Museum
• Wesleyan University
• Yale University

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• [http://harrietbart.com/ Official Website]
• [http://www.bartandwu.com/ Bart + Wu]
• [http://www.trafficzoneart.com/ Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art]

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