2024
October
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Now through October 12
Exhibition: Harriet Bart: The Art of Memory
Gordon Parks Gallery, Metro State University / St. Paul MN
September 12 through October 17
Exhibition: BANNED
April
Cargill Library / Minneapolis MN
April 5 through May 25
Exhibition: Next Chapter
March
The Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College / Lynchburg VA
Now - March 24
Exhibition: Front to Back: Artists’ Books by Women
2023
October
The Maier Museum of Art, Randolph College / Lynchburg VA
October 22, 2023 - March 24, 2024
Exhibition: Front to Back: Artists’ Books by Women
Boston College, MA
October 19
Lecture/Presentation, I SAW IT: From Holocaust Poem to Boston College Artist Book
September
Boston College News, “I Saw It, an artist book is inspired by a Boston College professor’s translation of a powerful poem by a Holocaust witness.”
August
Center for Book Arts / New York NY
August 26 - October 22
Exhibition: Craft & Conceptual Art: Reshaping the Legacy of Artist’s Books, a national tour exhibiting in New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis.
Traffic Zone Gallery / Minneapolis, MN
August 7 - September 8
Exhibition: Banned, an international exhibition inviting artists to consider the banned book.
July
Walker Art Center / Minneapolis, MN
July 1 - August 27
Exhibition: Make Sense of This: Visitors Respond to the Walker’s Collection, Chapter 3: Remembrance and Commemoration.
January
Christian Peterson Art Museum / Iowa State University
January 25 - July 21
Exhibition, Harriet Bart: Material Alchemy, a solo survey.
Myth, Memory, and a little bit of Magic: Harriet Bart’s Material Alchemy, essay by Christina Schmid / online exhibition catalog
2022
April
Penumbra (1976-77) officially joins the permanent collection of the Walker Art Center, April 18.
October
Minneapolis Institute of Art / Minneapolis MN
October 29, 2022 - July 16, 2023
Exhibition, In the Making, a group exhibition featuring a selection of artworks newly added to the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s permanent collection, all on view for the first time.
New Studio Gallery / Saint Paul MN
October 8 - December 10
Exhibition, Harriet Bart: Reckoning, a solo exhibition featuring the debut of the installation, Reckoning.
February
Who’s the biggest collector of Minnesota Art?, by Alicia Eler/Star Tribune.
Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, edited by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti, includes an essay featuring the work of Harriet Bart, “Chalk and Smoke, Fabric and Thread: Reflections on Feminist Commemoration and the Triangle Fire,”by Ellen Todd Wiley,
2021
September
10 must-see Twin Cities art exhibitions coming fall of 2021, by Alicia Eler/Star Tribune
Includes Material Matters at the Traffic Zone Gallery, October 18 - November 19, 2021. 2020
2020
July
The Annexation of Art, Empathy, and the Future, by Briana Olson / Southwest Journal
Feature article on the exhibition, DISPLACED, at SITE Santa Fe, which includes Harriet Bart’s and Yu-Wen Wu’s collaborative art installation “Leavings/Belongings.”
April
The Many Sides of Harriet Bart, From the 1970s to Today, by Sheila Regan / Hyperallergic
This article features the trajectory of Harriet Bart’s artistic career, and her first museum retrospective at the Weisman Art Museum.
March
SITE Santa Fe / Santa Fe NM
Exhibition, March 21 - September 6, 2020
Leavings/Belongings, a collaborative project with Yu-Wen Wu, will be part of the exhibition, Displaced, curated by Irene Hofmann at SITE Santa Fe.
Shaping and Reshaping/Bringing Human Migration Closer to Home, by Ray Mark Rinaldi / March 13, 2020
This article looks at SITE Santa Fe’s exhibit “Displaced,” in which Harriet Bart’s and Yu-Wen Wu’s installation Leavings/Belongings is a part of.
February
Weisman Art Museum / University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
Exhibition, Opens February 2, 2020
The Weisman Art Museum presents Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection, the first retrospective and monograph devoted to Bart’s work. Curated by Laura Wertheim Joseph. A list of monograph contributors can be found here. The exhibition is available for tour, following.
Mysticism Abounds in Minnesota Artist Harriet Bart's Grand Retrospective by Alicia Eler, Star Tribune. This article is a review of the exhibition, Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection at the Weisman Art Museum, February 2 - November 29, 2020.
Minneapolis Institute of Art / Minneapolis MN / Gallery 353
Exhibition, February 1 - September 20, 2020
Harriet Bart: Artist Books + Works on Paper
Harriet Bart: Artist Books + Works on Paper was organized by Mia associate curator Dennis Michael Jon in collaboration with the artist. It is presented in conjunction with the Weisman Art Museum’s concurrent retrospective exhibition Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection.
January
Katherine E. Nash Gallery / University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
Exhibition, January 21 - March 28, 2020
The Beginning of Everything: An Exhibition of Drawings
Curated by Howard Oransky, Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota presents The Beginning of Everything: An Exhibition of Drawings, a group exhibition surveying a broad range of approaches to drawing, and includes works from a wide variety of geographies, time periods, and esthetic perspectives.
2019
August
Misbehaving Books: Selections from the Walker Art Center Library / Walker Art Center / Minneapolis MN
Exhibition, July 11 - December 8, 2019
Reception, August 29, 6-8pm
June
Continuum / Minneapolis College of Art and Design / Minneapolis MN
Exhibition, June 14 - July 14, 2019
Reception, June 14, 6-9pm
Continuum features thirty-one artists who have been awarded McKnight Visual Artist fellowships between 2014 and 2018.
April
On words and wars: Harriet Bart and Jeremy Lundquist by Russ White / Mplsart.com
May
McKnight Discussion Series / Irene Hofmann in Conversation with Harriet Bart and Jeremy Lundquist / Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN
May 17, 2019 6:30pm - Tickets
February
McKnight Visual Artist Fellows Discussion Series at the Minneapolis Institute of Art / Hyperallergic
This discussion series features the 2017 McKnight Visual Artist Fellows in conversation with nationally-renown art curators and critics.
2018
December
The Artist and the Space: Harriet Bart / Valerie Jardin Photography
November
New Editions Preview Night / Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis MN
Artist Panel, November 30, 2018
Roots and Fruits / St. Catherine University
Exhibition, November 3 - December 15, 2018
This two-part group exhibition combines period artworks and archival materials to trace pivotal events in the early history of WARM and explores some of the ways its members catalyzed local art movements, programs and artists. With the national feminist art movement of the 1970s as a backdrop, this show reveals the significant role of WARM in shaping the careers of women artists in Minnesota and beyond.
September
Expo Chicago with Boreas Fine Art / Navy Pier, Chicago IL
Art Fair, September 27 - 30, 2018
Boreas Fine Art / Chicago IL
Exhibition, September 25 - October 28, 2018
An Idea of One's Own: Postconceptual Women Artists presents recent work by six contemporary women artists including one collaborative lab, each working in various media.
July
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / New York NY
Grant, Spring 2018
The Weisman Art Museum has received a $75,000 grant award from the Andy Warhol Foundation in support of the exhibition Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection.
Roots & Fruits: Exploring the History and Impact of the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota / Minneapolis College of Art and Design / Minneapolis MN
Group Exhibition, Fall 2018
April
Weisman Art Museum / Minneapolis MN
Exhibition, opening February 2020
The Weisman Art Museum will present a retrospective and monograph titled Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection, curated by Laura Wertheim Joseph. The exhibition opens in February, and is available for tour, following.
February
Yaddo / Saratoga Springs NY
Residency, with Yu-Wen Wu.
2017
June
McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship / Minneapolis MN
Fellowship, 2017 - 2018
Designed to identify and support outstanding mid-career Minnesota artists, the McKnight Fellowships for Visual Artists provide recipients with a financial award, public recognition, professional encouragement from national visiting critics, and an opportunity to participate in a speaker series. The fellowships are funded by a generous grant from the McKnight Foundation and administered by MCAD.
February
Expanded Readings: The Book to Come / Sheppard Contemporary at University of Nevada, Reno NV
Group exhibition, Curated by Inge Bruggeman February 9 - March 17, 2017
An exhibition exploring embodied meaning through the physical, material and visual reading of the artist’s book. Work by Harriet Bart, Heather Green, Sun Young Kang, Katherine Kuehn, Heidi Neilson, Felicia Rice and Kaia Sand.