16 Facts About Heather Hart

Heather T Hart was born on May 3,1975 and is an American visual artist who works in a variety of media including interactive and participatory Installation art, drawing, collage, and painting.

Heather Hart is a co-founder of the Black Lunch Table Project, which includes a Wikipedia initiative focused on addressing diversity representation in the arts on Wikipedia.

Heather Hart's parents met as students at an art school in Oakland, California.

In 1998, Hart received a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where she majored in Painting and Video.

Heather Hart attended the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University in New Jersey.

In 2008, Heather Hart received an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where her focus was interdisciplinary art.

Heather Hart learned carpentry from her father at a young age.

Heather Hart uses architectural forms mixed with family and oral histories, multiple narratives, and participatory engagements as integral components in much of her creative work.

Heather Hart's "Rooftop Oracles" is a series of life-size rooftops, which look as though they were dropped from the sky or emerging from the ground, offer viewers an interactive experience as they climb onto and under the structures.

Heather Hart has created different installations in the series, and realizes her vision with the collaboration of family and friends, in a sort of raising the roof effort that involves many people working together as a community.

In 2010, Heather Hart created the installation, "The Northern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off the Mother," at Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota.

From May to November 2017, "Outlooks: Heather Hart" is installed at Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York.

Heather Hart is co-founder of the Black Lunch Table Project, a radical archiving project, which was awarded a 2016 Emerging Fields Grant from Creative Capital.

Heather Hart's work has been exhibited worldwide including Olympic Sculpture Park, Real Art Ways, 92YTribeca, Jersey City Museum, NYU Galleries, 2B Gallery in Budapest, Rush Arts Gallery, Portland Art Center, Soil Art Gallery, Studio Museum in Harlem, Islip Art Museum, Museum of Art and Craft in Japan, and Art in General.

Heather Hart has collaborated in pieces by Pablo Helguera and Raphael Ortiz.

Heather Hart's work has been included in exhibitions curated by Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas.