Claudia Hart

Claudia Hart was born in New York in 1955. After graduating from New York University with a BA, Hart studied at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and received an MS. Hart also studied at N.Y.U.’s Center for Advanced Digital Applications. She helped to redevelop Industrial Design Magazine into ID: the Magazine of International Design, was an editor at Artforum and continues to write critically but in the academic context, including in journals such as Media-N, the New Media Caucus Journal, Bad Papers and Byte Shark. Hart also wrote, illustrated and designed A Child’s Machiavelli and Dr. Faustie’s Guide to Real Estate Development. Hart received an NEA Fellowship and spent ten years in Europe, where she received numerous fellowships including the Kunstfond Bonn, Stiftung Kulturfonds, the Stiftung Luftbrueckendank Grant, the Arts International Foundation Grant, the Kunstlerhaus Bethanian Grant and two fellowships from the American Center in Paris. In Europe, she exhibited widely with galleries and museums. Her work has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum, New York; M.I.T. List Center, Cambridge, MA; Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New School, New York; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin; and the Sammlung Goetz Museum, Munich. Hart has exhibited with the Pat Hearn Gallery and is now represented by Bitforms Gallery, NY. She is currently a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lives and works in Chicago and New York.
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