About
Trained in printmaking and book arts at the Hartford Art School, Connecticut, and the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, S.J.Hart combines traditional elements of etching, drawing, and figurative painting with a taste for the gothic, abstract, and decorative. Recent series explore the psychological space of figure and portrait paintings, Victorian post-mortem photography, and the weird zone in which zoological illustrations turn into images of childhood.

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EDUCATION

2000
MFA Book Arts/Printmaking, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1997     
BFA Printmaking, The Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2006-07           
Printmaker Associate, The Ink Shop Printmaking Center, Ithaca, NY.  http://www.ink-shop.org

2004-06            
Co-Director, Opensource Art, Champaign-Urbana, IL. 
http://www.opensource.boxwith.com

SOLO / TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2009
shining with the secret of it, CoLAB Projects, New Orleans, LA

not a bird nested here, Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago, IL

Nostalgic Anxieties, Studio West Gallery, Eugene, OR

2008
S. J. Hart: Paintings & Prints, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME

Songbirds, Jennifer North, Champaign, IL

2006
Graveworks
, Springer Cultural Center, Champaign, IL

2005           
I lloutuve wyou too: paintings and drawings, UIUC, Urbana, IL

2004           
Everyone I Work With, Millennium, Philadelphia, PA

Boys & Girls: new paintings, Millennium

2003           
Figures: new paintings in acrylic, Grass Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2002           
Diptychs: new figurative works, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA          

Walking Bone: new works on paper, Millennium

1999           
Warm Belly, Installation, Printmaking Gallery, University of the Arts

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
Petite Choses: Small Works Show, Susan Maasch Fine Art

2008
Winter Show, Susan Maasch Fine Art

Gallery Artists Winter Group Show, Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago, IL

Hybrids & Other Sorts, Juried Exhibition, BECA Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Scrupulosity, Juried Exhibition, Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL

Animals in your Kingdom, Juried Exhibition, Micro Museum, Brooklyn, NY

2007          
The Affair at the Jupiter, Portland Art Fair, Portland, OR

Ink Shop at Cedar Arts, Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY

2006           
Monster Mail Art Swap, Online Exhibition

Birthday Suit, OPENSOURCE Art, Champaign, IL

2005           
Nudes, Juried Exhibition, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston, MA

Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism and Resistance, OPENSOURCE Art         

My Body Is My Billboard, OPENSOURCE Art

2001-03           
Edible Art Show, Space 1026 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2001-02           
Projet Mobilivre/Bookmobile Project Tour, Space 1026 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2001           
The Cat Show, The Basement Space, Philadelphia, PA

2000           
Crawl Out of It, Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1999           
High and Dry, Anderson Hall Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1998           
Works Together, Laurie Wagman Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1997           
New Terrain, New Artists, First Expressions Gallery, Boston, MA

1995-97           
Alexander A. Goldfarb Juried Student Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School

CURATORIAL

2006              
Co-Curator, Spectacles of the Real, OPENSOURCE Art, Champaign, IL

2005              
Co-Curator, Mind in Matter, Opensource Art, Champaign, IL

Co-Curator, Transforming the Grid, Opensource Art, Champaign, IL

Co-Curator, Skinless Capital, Opensource Art, Champaign, IL

PUBLICATIONS

2008
Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 2, Juried Exhibition in Print, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA

Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 3, Juried Exhibition in Print, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA

The House of Tate, Issue 5, online zine, http://thehouseoftate.com           

2003
Matthew Hart, Matt Hart's Last Three England Poems
Letterpress chapbook printed on a Vandercook proofing press

2001           
Summer Jellison, A Book About All My Cats, Live & Dead
Letterpress book printed on a Vandercook proofing press

Matthew Hart, A Compass or Centre
Letterpress chapbook printed on a Vandercook proofing press

2000              
Summer Jellison, Melvin the Electric Duck
Children's book printed on a Heidelburg Kors Offset Press

Summer Jellison, Alien Superheroes Disguised as Human Princesses
Letterpress book with linocut illustrations

Selected Collections

Joselof Gallery, West Hartford, CT

Kasia Kay, Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago, IL

Natalie and David Bauman, Bauman Rare Books, Philadelpia, PA

Matti Bunzl, Chicago, IL

Stasia Sienna, Champaign, IL