1940 Born in St. Louis, Missouri
Lived Marblehead, Massachusetts
Lives and works New York City
EDUCATION
1963 B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine
AWARDS
1997 Athena Foundation Grant
1989 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1975 Change, Inc.
HONORS
1980 CAPS Film Panelist, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Susan Hartnett: Recent Work, Alexandre Gallery, New York
2004 Susan Hartnett, Danese, New York
2002 Susan Hartnett: New Work, Danese, New York
2001 Susan Hartnett: Works on Paper, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2000 Susan Hartnett Recent Work, Danese, New York
Susan Hartnett, Zeichnungen, mBochum, Bochum, Germany
1999 Susan Hartnett, Flynn Gallery, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Susan Hartnett’s Maine Grasses, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, curated by Alison Ferris
1998 Works on Paper, Danese, New York
1993 Benjamin Mays Gallery, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
1985 Art Galaxy, New York
1980 New York Botanical Garden Conservatory, Bronx, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 “Black and White Abstractions,” Haim Chanin Fine Arts, New York
2005 “Off the Coast; Landscape Chronology,” Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
“Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
2004 “The Maine Landscape: Works on Paper,” Bowdoin College Museum of Art, John A. and Helen P. Becker Gallery, Brunswick, Maine
“Naturally,” Studio Caparrelli, London
“Abstractions,” Cook Fine Art, New York
“Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape,” Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
2003 “Black White,” Danese, New York
“Summer Series,” Anthony Grant, Inc., New York
“Ausgestellt-Vorgestellt: R¸ckblick,” Skulturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany
2002 “Northern Light,” Danese, New York
“Drawings 2002,” New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey
“Abstraction in Maine,” Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
2001 “Group Exhibition,” Lembeg Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
“Summer Group Exhibition,” Danese, New York
“Flora,” Cook Fine Art, New York
2000 “Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1999 “Ausgestelle-Vorgestellt, Richard Serra for Susan Hartnett,” Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany
“New Visions & Imagined Lands,” Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
“New Work: Drawings,” Hosfelt, San Francisco, California
“Walking,” Danese, New York
“Works From the Contemporary Collection,” Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
1998 “The Art of Drawing,” James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Beyond the Mountains: Contemporary American Landscape,” Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina
1994 “Summer Show,” Michael Klein Gallery, New York
1986 “Keledones,” Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
1975 “Artists Make Toys,” The Clocktower, New York
1974 “About 405 East 13 Street,” Jean Dupuy, New York
1963 “Rhode Island Arts Festival Invitational,” Providence, Rhode Island
FILMOGRAPHY
1983 Collective for Living Cinema, New York
1978 Collective for Living Cinema, New York
1977 Collective for Living Cinema, New York
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2004 Susan Hartnett, The New Yorker, May 17, 2004, p.18.
Naves, Mario. “Small Moments of Grace,” The New York Observer, May 3, 2004, p.18.
2003 Naves, Mario. “Making Her Mark,” The New York Observer, August 4, 2003, p.16.
2002 Bischoff, Dan. “At First Glance,” The Star-Ledger, October 11-17, 2002, p.26.
Little, Carl and Arnold Skolnick. The Art of Maine in Winter, October, 2002.
2001 Frank, Peter. “Sergu Onaga, Bill Jensen, Susan Hartnett,” LA Weekly, April 27- May 3, p. 156.
Mahoney, Robert. “Susan Hartnett at Danese,” Art in America, Vol. 89, No. 4, April pp. 133, 135, illus.
2000 Naves, Mario. “Even Her Smudges Have Humility,” The New York Observer, November 27, 2000, p.17, illus.
Poet Lore, Fall 2000, Volume 95, Number 3, illustration for covers.
Schmidt, Konrad. “Das Schweigen der Erdhaare,” Ruhr-Nachrichten, May 18, 2000, illus.
“Gräser waschen ¸über das Papier,” WAZ, 16 May, 2000, illus.
Willems, Sophia. “Zeichnungen schauen dich an,” Westdeutsche Zeitung, May 16, 2000, illus.
1999 Gomez, Edward M. “Where Pluralism Rules,” Art &Antiques, December 1999, p. 69, illus.
Höving, Elisabeth. “Spiel mit Masse: Serra und Susan Hartnett in Marl,” Westdeutsche Zeitung, September 29, 1999.
Cohen, Mark Daniel. “The Moment of Power,” Review, September 15, 1999.
“Gefährdetes Gleichgewicht,” Marler Zeitung, September 14, 1999.
“Viele Autogramm-Jäger und ein dankbarer Museumchef,” WAZ, September 13, 1999.
“Harter Stahl, zartes Gras,” Marler Zeitung, September 11, 1999.
“Rat lehnte Serra einst heftig ab,” WAZ, September 11, 1999.
Temin, Christine. “Treasures at Bowdoin,” Boston Sunday Globe, August 29, 1999, pp. N1 & N6.
“Neues im Glaskasten Marl,” Ruhr-Nachrichten, August 26, 1999.
Isaacson, Philip. “The Fabric of Maine: Coming at it From Two Directions,” Maine Sunday Telegram, August 15, 1999, p. E3.
“Ein Zimmer voller Stahl,” WAZ, August 13, 1999, illus.
“Aufgestellt,” WAZ, August 6, 1999, illus.
“Ausgestellt-Vorgeselle IV: Serra/Hartnett,” Prinz, August 1999, illus.
Gold, Donna. “Why Stop With Just One Artist,” Maine Times, July 29-August 4 1999, Vol. 32 no. 12, p. 23, illus.
Russell, Jenna. “Viewers Can Find Splendor in the Grasses by Painter Hartnett:,” Bangor Daily News, July 8, 1999, pp. C1-2, illus.
“Sehgewohnheiten auf dem Pr¸fstand,” WAZ.
“Hartnett/ Serra Glaskasten Exhibition,” Inform, July 1999.
Korotkin, Joyce. “Susan Hartnett,” Cover, January 1999, Vol. 12, #6, p. 44, illus.
1998 Cohen, Mark Daniel. “Susan Hartnett,” Review, November 15, 1998, pp. 9-12.
Tomkins, Calvin; Kazanjian, Dodie. “Nature Poet:,” The New Yorker, November 9, 1998, p. 20, illus.
Neal, Dale. “Looking at the Land Late in the Century,” Asheville Citizen Times, March 29, 1998, p. F4.
1995 BOMB Magazine, Volume #51, Spring 1995, pp. 77-79.
1993 Isaacson, Philip. Portland Sunday Telegram. May 9, 1993, pp. 1E/9E.
CATALOGUES & EXHIBITION BROCHURES
2007 “Susan Hartnett: Recent Work,” Exhibition catalog, essay by Klaus KertessAlexandre Gallery, New York.
2003 “Susan Hartnett: Ausgestellt-Vorgestellt IV, 12. September bis 24. Oktober 1999, Vorgestellt von Richard Serra,” Ausgestellt Vorgestellt Rückblick: Norvin Leineweber, Christoph Platz, Peter Wüthrich, Susan Hartnett, Jan Kopp. Marl, Germany: Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, pp.45 - 55.
2000 Susan Hartnett, Zeichnungen, mBochum Exhibition Catalogue, Bochum, Germany.
1999 Richard Serra for Susan Hartnett, Ausgestellt-Vorgestellt IV, essays by Susan Hartnett & Richard Serra, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany, 1999.
Susan Hartnett’s Maine Grasses, Exhibition Brochure and essay by Alison Ferris, Bowdoin College of Art, Brunswick, Maine.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Eastport, Maine