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Harmony Hammond

b. 1944, Chicago, IL / based in Galisteo, NM

Harmony Hammond is an artist, writer, and curator. A leading figure in the development of the feminist art movement in New York in the early 1970s, she attended the University of Minnesota from 1963–67 before moving to New York in 1969. She was a co-founder of A.I.R., the first women’s cooperative art gallery in New York (1972) and Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics (1976). Since 1984, Hammond has lived and worked in northern New Mexico, teaching at the University of Arizona, Tucson from 1989–2006.

In 2019, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT presented Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Fifty Years of Art, the first museum survey of Hammond’s work, organized Amy Smith-Stewart. Her work was also included in the 2024 Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing and Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art at the Barbican Art Gallery, London and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025) and Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, organized by the National Gallery of Art, traveling to the Museum of Modern Art, New York (April 20–September 13, 2025), and was featured in the solo exhibition Harmony Hammond: Fringe at SITE Santa Fe (February 28–May 19, 2025). Hammond’s work is included in the permanent collections of many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; as well as Tucson Museum, Brooklyn Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others.

She is a recipient of many fellowships including those granted by the Joan Mitchell Foundation (1998); Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (1995); John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation (1991); and Pollock Krasner Foundation (1989); as well as National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in graphics (1983) and sculpture (1982). In 2013, Hammond received the College Art Association’s Distinguished Feminist Award and in 2014 received an Anonymous Was A Woman Award and a Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art. She was recently awarded the 2025 Trellis Art Fund Milestone Grant.

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Related Events

Harmony Hammond: Desire
October 16, 2025–January 23, 2026
Opening Reception with the Artist:
Thursday, October 16, 5–7pm
Tamarind Institute
Hammond investigates the lithograph as a non-planographic object in this solo show.
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Tamarind Talks

Nancy Zastudil in conversation with Harmony Hammond
Thursday, October 23, 5:30pm
Curator and writer Nancy Zastudil and Harmony Hammond discuss the artist’s decades-long practice exploring materiality and process, and the lithograph as a non-planographic object.
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The Frederick Hammersley Artist Residency and its related programs are made possible through the generous support of the Frederick Hammersley Fund for the Arts at the Albuquerque Community Foundation.