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SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2013       
Texas Woman’s University, Seductive Alchemy: Books By Artists - Denton TX [Betty Bright, Curator]
Katherine Nash Gallery, The House We Built: Feminist Art Then and Now - University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN
Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Curious Passions - Minnetonka MN

2012
Weisman Art Museum, Tenuous Though Real - Minneapolis MN
CAFA Art Museum, Diamond Leaves - Beijing China + tour
Macalester College, Between Echo and Silence - St. Paul MN (solo) [Joanna Inglot, Curator]
Babcock Galleries, The American Hand: Sculpture from Three Centuries - New York NY
New York Center for Book Arts, Fine & Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art - New York NY
Millersville University, Found in Translation - Millersville PA

2011
Boston Athenaeum, Artists’ Books: Books by Artists - Boston MA
UBS Art Gallery, Our History is Our Strength - Stamford CT
United Theological Seminary, Seeing the Common Good: Artists Creating for Social Change - New Brighton MN
23 Sandy Gallery, Object Poems - Portland OR
GCSU Museum, Apocrypha, traditional, et al - Milledgeville GA
College of Visual Arts, Deceptive Distance - St. Paul MN
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Fine & Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art - Minneapolis MN
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, From Press to Page: Book Arts in Minnesota - Minneapolis MN

2010
Walker Art Center Library, Winter Projects - Minneapolis MN (solo)
Williamsburg Art + Historical Center, Special Choice Book Arts I+II - Brooklyn NY
Williamsburg Art + Historical Center, Tri-Fold: New Perspectives in Book Arts - Brooklyn NY
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Speaking Volumes - The Language of Artists Books - Sheboygan WI
Susan Hensel Gallery, A Reader’s Art - Minneapolis MN

2009
Walker Art Center, Text / Messages: Books by Artists - Minneapolis MN
Traffic Zone Gallery, X LIBRIS - Minneapolis MN

2008
Form + Content, Party Party in a Tweety Land b/w This Republic of Suffering - Minneapolis MN
Minneapolis Central Library Cargill Gallery, Altered Books - Minneapolis MN
Scripps College Williamson Gallery, Performing the Book - Claremont CA (solo)

2007
Weisman Art Museum, The Exquisite Book - Minneapolis MN
University of Wisconsin, Books and Death - Milwaukee WI
Minnesota Center For Book Arts, Found in Translation - Minneapolis MN

2006
New York Center for Book Art, Found in Translation - New York NY
San Francisco Center for Book Art, Found in Translation - San Francisco CA
King St. Stephen Museum, Fourth International Artists Book Exhibition - Székesfehérvár Hungary
Weisman Art Museum, W.A.R.M.: 12 Artists of the Women’s Art Registry of MN - Minneapolis MN
Hofstra University, Euclid To e-books: Ideal Books Moving Ideas - Long Island NY
University of the South, Works With Paper: Artists Books - Sewanee TN

2005
Bethel University, Punica Granatum - St. Paul, MN (solo)

2004
Indianapolis Art Center, Object < > Book - Indianapolis IN (solo)

2003
Museum of Arts and Design, Corporal Identity: Body Language - New York NY
EVO Gallery, Dialogue: In the Presence of Absence - Santa Fe NM
Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Art, Dialogue: In the Presence of Absence - Santa Fe NM
Klingspor Museum, Corporal Identity: Body Language - Offenbach Germany
Babcock Galleries, The Art of the Book - New York NY (solo)

2002
Volker Marschall Gallery, Bildsprache - Dusseldorf Germany
Columbia College, Third National Book & Paper Arts Biennial - Chicago IL

2000
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, McKnight Fellows Exhibition: New Work - Minneapolis MN

EDITIONED ARTIST BOOKS
2011 Drawn In Smoke
2009 PLUMB BOB
2007 Vispoeologee: An Anthology of Visual Literature - Minnesota Center for Book Arts
2006 A Miscellany of Visual Poetry
2005 Punica Granatum
2004 13 ÷14
2003 The Poetry of Chance Encounters
2002 In the Presence of Absence
2000 Garment Register

SELECT HONORS
2012 McKnight Foundation Mid-Career Public Artist Professional Development Grant - St. Paul MN
2010 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - Residency - Amherst VA
2010 Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship Finalist - St. Paul MN
2004 Minnesota Book Awards - Fine Press, The Poetry of Chance Encounters
2002 Minnesota Book Awards - Fine Press, Garment Register
2001 Partnership 2000 - A Cultural Exchange Encounter - US + Israel
2000 Bush Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship - Minneapolis MN

SELECT PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2012 Ramsey County Library, X LIBRIS: Cadence- New Brighton MN
2007 Fort Dodge Library, Riversong Anthology - Fort Dodge IA
2007 Rondo Community Outreach Library - St. Paul MN
2003 Opus Corporation Corporate Headquarters - Minnetonka MN
2003 University of Minnesota Walter Library - Minneapolis MN
2001 Poriya Regional Hospital - Poriya Tiberias Israel
2000 Ceridian Corporation - Bloomington MN

SELECT BOOKS + CATALOGS
2013 Curious Passions - produced by Minnetonka Center for Art
2012 Fine & Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art (Betty Bright and Jeffrey Rathermel)
- produced by The Center for Book Arts
2011 Perspective in Fine Arts: Deceptive Distance (Christina Schmid) - produced by College of Visual Arts
2011 Winter Projects (Harriet Bart with forward by Rosemary Furtak] [MN AIGA Winner 2011 - Hopkins/Baumann]
2010 A Reader’s Art, Jon Coffelt - produced by Susan Hensel Gallery
2009 XLIBRIS The Re-Purposed Book (Harriet Bart and Dennis Michael Jon)
- produced by Traffic Zone Center for Visual Arts
2009 TypeBound (Craig Saper and Theo Lotz) - produced by the University of Central Florida
2008 500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form - produced by Lark Books
2006 Beyond Words Artists' Books (Arlyn Ende) - produced by Sewanee The University of the South
2006 Euclid to e-books: ideal books moving ideas (Bronwyn Hannon) - produced by Hofstra Museum
2006 Found in translation (Marshall Weber) - produced by Booklyn Artists Alliance
2003 Altered Books: Spine Bending Thrillers (Karen McDermott) - produced by Rider University Art Gallery
2003 Corporal Identity: Body Language - produced by the Museum of Arts + Design
2000 Bush Artist Fellows - produced by the Bush Foundation

SELECT COLLECTIONS
Boston Athenaeum - Boston MA
Dartmouth College - Hanover NH
Duke University Perkins Library - Durham NC
Fort Dodge Library - Fort Dodge IA
Ibaraki Municipal Library - Ibaraki Osaka Japan
Iowa State University - Ames IA
The Jewish Museum - New York NY
Laumeier Sculpture Park and Museum - St. Louis MO
Library of Congress - Washington DC
Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge LA
Long Island University - Brooklyn NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York NY
Minneapolis Institute of Arts - Minneapolis MN
Minnesota Historical Society - St. Paul MN
Minnesota Humanities Education Center - St. Paul MN
National Gallery of Art - Washington DC
Nat. Museum of Women in the Arts - Washington DC
New York Public Library - New York NY
Poriya Regional Hospital - Poriya Tiberias Israel
Rondo Community Library - St. Paul MN
Sackner Archive of Visual & Concrete Poetry - Miami FL
Scripps College - Claremont CA
Smith College - Northampton MA
Stanford University - Palo Alto CA
University of California - San Diego CA
University of Chicago - Chicago IL
University of Connecticut - Storrs CT
University of Kentucky - Lexington KY
University of Louisville Eckstrom Library - Louisville KY
University of Minnesota Andersen Library - Minneapolis MN
University of St. Thomas - St. Paul MN
University of Virginia Art Museum - Charlottesville VA
University of Washington - Seattle WA
University of Wisconsin Kohler Art Library - Madison WI
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis MN
Weisman Art Museum - Minneapolis MN
Wesleyan University - Middletown CT
Yale University - New Haven CT

SELECT PRESS + REVIEWS
Harriet Bart, MN Original (Kate McDonald + Amy Melin), Episode 308, February 2012
Harriet Bart: Plumb Bob (Christina Squitieri), The Center for Book Arts Blog NY, February 2012
Raised Ink (Christy DeSmith), American Craft, February/March 2012
A Reader’s Art (Zach Pearl), Bound & Lettered, Fall 2010
Book art at Traffic Zone (Interview by Britt Aamodt), KFAI Radio, September 2009
Art: Turning the Page (Mary Abbe), Star Tribune, September 2009
Absence as presence (Teri Thomson Randall), Pasatiempo, September 2003

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts - University of Minnesota - Minneapolis MN

REPRESENTATION
Driscoll Babcock - New York NY