| 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
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