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HARMONY HAMMOND (1944 -)
Cradleboard. Cloth, gesso, liquid rubber, rhoplex, acrylic and metal. 939x609x342 mm; 37x24x13½ inches. 1980. Provenance: acquired from Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, with gallery label verso; private collection; private collection, New York (circa 1990s).
Harmony Hammond is an artist, writer, and curator known for her contributions to the feminist art movement in New York City. In the 1970s, she co-founded A.I.R., the first women's cooperative art gallery, and Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics. In addition to her work as a feminist, Hammon is also a queer arts advocate: her book, Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History (2000), received a Lambda Literary Award and is regarded as the primary text on the history of lesbian art in the US.
Today she lives and works in Northern New Mexico, where she maintains her post-minimalist, politically topical artistic practice, blurring the lines between painting and sculpture.
Her illustrious career includes a solo museum survey in 2019, "Material Witness, Five Decades of Art" at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, CT; and her participation in significant group shows such as "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her work is featured in many public collections, including the MoMA, the Whitney Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, underscoring her impact on feminist and queer art.
Hammond is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in New York City, where she has had four solo exhibitions in the past decade. She is also currently featured in the 2024 Whitney Biennial.
