Hilary Harkness

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Courtesy of PPOW Gallery and Hilary Harkness
Courtesy of PPOW Gallery and Hilary Harkness
Hilary Harkness (b. 1971) meticulously fuses Old Master tactics with a distinctly contemporary sensibility to explore power dynamics, war, and gender through an intersectional lens. Her work explores interpersonal dynamics through a lens that allows power struggles inherent in sex, race, and class systems to play out on an uncensored stage. Harkness earned her BA from UC Berkeley and her MFA from Yale University. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain; American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; and The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; among others. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Yuz Museum Shanghai; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; and the Seavest Collection, New York, NY; among others. In 2017, she received the Henry Clews Award and participated in the inaugural Master Residency Program at the Château de La Napoule in France. She has lectured widely at leading academic and cultural institutions. In 2014, she co-curated Roy Lichtenstein: Nudes and Interiors at The FLAG Art Foundation. Harkness’ first solo exhibition with the gallery will open in fall 2023.
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B. 1971 in Detroit, Michigan

 

Education
1996 M.F.A. Yale University, New Haven, CT

1993 B.A. University of California, Berkeley, CA

 

Solo Exhibitions

2013 The FLAG Art Foundation, NYC, NY

2011 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY

2008 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY

2005 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY

2004 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY

2002 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001 Bill Maynes Gallery, NYC, NY

 

Group Exhibitions
2023 Saints and Sinners, Guts Gallery, London, UK

2020 Days Soon to Fade, PPOW Gallery, NYC, NY. (online viewing room)

2019 Drawn Together Again, FLAG Art Foundation, NYC, NY.

2019 The Pleasure Principle, Maccarone, Los Angeles, CA.

2019 Please Step on the Grass, Right Behind the New Museum, NYC, NY.

2019 GARDEN, Sargent’s Daughters and Shrine, NYC, NY.

2018 Electric Palace, New York Academy of Art, NYC, NY.

2017 Piss and Vinegar: Two Generations of Provocateurs, New York Academy of Art, NYC, NY.

2017 Female/Feminist/2017, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT.

2016 Her Crowd, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT.

2015 Disturbing Innocence, curated by Eric Fischl, FLAG Art Foundation, NYC, NY.

2012 Figured Spaces, Schmidt Center Gallery at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

2011 Heroines, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain.

2011 Art2, FLAG Art Foundation, NYC, NY.

2010 The Rise & Fall of Excess Culture, Stux Gallery, NYC, NY.

2009 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, NY.

2009 A Tribute to Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.

2007 Old School, Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi, London, England.

2007 Old School, Zwirner & Wirth, NYC, NY.

2007 Pleasures of Collecting, Part III: Contemporary and Cutting Edge, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT.

2006 Men, curated by Ellen Altfest, I-20 Gallery, NYC, NY.

2004 Endless Love, DC Moore Gallery, NYC, NY.

2003 American Art Today: Faces and Figures, Art Museum of Florida International University, Miami, FL.

2003 OnLine, Feigen Contemporary, NYC, NY.

2003 Future Noir, Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania.

2003 Unforeseen, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon.

2002 Dangerous Beauty, The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, NYC, NY.

2002 Into the Woods, Julie Saul Gallery, NYC, NY.

2002 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, NY.

2002 Fusion Cuisine, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece.

2001 Wonderland, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts.

2001 Pixerina Witcherina, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois.

2001 Heroine, Dee/Glasoe Gallery, NYC, NY

2001 Best of the Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

2001 View Five : Westworld, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.

2000 Timothy B. Buckwalter, Hilary Harkness, Jerry W. King, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, San Francisco, California.

1999 Shiny!, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California.

1999 25/25, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California.

1998 Nothing But Time, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California.

 

Awards

2017 Henry Clews Award Master Residency Program, La Napoule Art Foundation

2009 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters

2003 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

2002 Metcalf Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters