Born:
1953 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Education:
1979M.F.A. in Painting, University of California, San Diego
WhitneyMuseum of American Art, Independent Study Program for Painters and Sculptors
1976B.A. in Biology and Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
Gallery Representation:
2006-13HARDIN STUDIOS San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2000-06NEWSPACE Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (NEWSPACE closed in 2006. Gallery archives now at the Smithsonian Institute of American Art, Washington, D.C.)
1979-82NEWSPACE Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions:
2013“Families of Abraham,” HARDIN STUDIOS, San Francisco, CA
"Power Lines/Cherry Tree Skies,” Invisions, San Francisco, CA
2010-13“STREAM of CONSCIOUSNESS…a photo replica,” The Southeast Community Facility Alex Pitcher Room, San Francisco, CA
2012"Power Lines/Cherry Tree Skies,” Hardin Studios, San Francisco, CA
"Chocolate in the Garden/Plum Tree Skies,” Hardin Studios, San Francisco, CA
2010“STREAM of CONSCIOUSNESS…a visual documentary,” Bayview Opera House, San Francisco, CA
2006“Favorite Flora and Fauna,” Hardin Studios, San Francisco, CA
2004“Families in Paradise…an installation," SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001"The Human Family Tree…an installation," Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
"Families," C.I.t.y.Metro Gallery, Reno, NV
2000"The Human Family Tree/A Walk Through Paradise…," The Bayview Opera House, San Francisco, CA
1995"Five Programs of the Bayview Opera House," Cultural Wall, American Airlines Terminal, SF InternationalAirport, San Francisco, CA
1984"Snow White Meditating Babylon," Women's InternationalCenter, San Diego, CA
1982"Incantations: Books I and II/Parsifal and Self Discipline," Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979"Oklahoma is O.K./Seasonal Rituals 1959," Community Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA
"Oklahoma is O.K./Seasonal Rituals 1959," University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2013"Muslimia,” International Museum of Women,
"Unique Perspective of San Francisco,” San Francisco Travel Bureau, San Francisco, CA
2008"Expressions of San Francisco Arts,” Gallery 94124, San Francisco, CA
2006"Good to Go," Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
2005"Lullabies and Silent Screams," SomArts Gallery, San Francisco
2004"Uncensored Gifts," Mt. San Jacinto College Fine Art Gallery, San Jacinto, CA
2003"Floating to the Surface,”Hollis Street Project, Emeryville, CA
"New Works," Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Why Art?," The SecondCityCouncilArtGallery, Long Beach, CA
2002 "The American Landscape," Santa Cruz Art League Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
"The Political Woman," WomanMade Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Women's Caucus for the ArtsTouring Exhibition," WCA, Chicago, IL
"GENERATIONS III Invitational" A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2001"The Urban Landscape," Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA
"The 18th Annual Lewis-Clark Juried Art Exhibition," Lewis-ClarkCenter for Arts and
History, Lewiston,ID
2000"From Around the World," SomArtsGallery, San Francisco, CA
"The Work of Women," Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA
"Behind the Walls," Lawton Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI
1999"New Attitudes," Art Frankfort, Frankfort, Germany
"11th Annual National Art Competition," TrumanStateUniversity, Kirksville, MO
"Merged Realities," Central Arts Collective, Tucson, AZ
"What We Think of Ourselves," Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
"Ink & Clay: The Big 25th Anniversary Show," Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
1998"Spanning the Bay," Center for Visual Arts, Oakland, CA
1996"Women Artists Painting Women's Issues," Bayview Opera House, San Francisco, CA
1994"Girl Talk," Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, CA
"Twelve Women from Hunters Point Shipyard," Pauline’s Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993"Chain Reaction," San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Family Values," Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, CA
1992"New Paintings," Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, CA
1991"The Sound and The Fury," Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, CA
1990"Eighth Annual Print & Drawing Competition/Exhibition," Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
1989"Families," Arts Council of San MateoCounty, Corridor Gallery, Redwood City, CA
"The Art Teacher," Metro Contemporary Gallery, Foster City, CA
“Drawings and Paintings,” Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, C
1988"Swan Paintings," Potrerro Hill Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Swan Paintings," Sally's, San Francisco, CA
"New Graphite Drawings," Hunters Point Shipyard, San Francisco, CA
"New Works on Paper," Sally's, San Francisco, CA
1982"Domestic Relations," Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Drawings by Painters," Long BeachCountyMuseum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1981"Poetic Visions," OtisParsonsArtGallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Incantations," Collaboration with Jonathan Sacks, San DiegoStateUniversity, San Diego, CA
"Stardust," La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
"Stardust," Los AngelesCountyMuseum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1980"New Narrative Painting," Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Information," San DiegoStateUniversityArtGallery, San Diego, CA
"Stardust," Collaboration: Alexis Smith, LACE(Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles, CA
1978"The Big San Diego Artists Show," Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Painting," The Other Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
1977"Drawings," Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1976"Small Image Art Show," BalboaPark, San Diego, CA
Awards/Commissions/Acknowledgments:
2004-13Who's Who of American Women?
Who's Who in American Education?
2011Certificate of Acknowledgement and Thanks from Shipyard Trust for the Arts (STAR) for years of work developing arts programs in the Bayview Hunters Point Neighborhood and activism on behalf of artists working in private studios at Hunters Point Shipyard
2010Jefferson Award from KCBS News, San Francisco, CA
Public Art Award for First Nine Public Artworks for Hunter Point Shipyard from the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, San Francisco, CA
2008 Bridgeview Garden Mural commissioned by Quesada Garden Initiative, San Francisco, CA
2003Certificate of Honor signed by the full Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco to Heidi Hardin in honor of extraordinary contributions to the Bayview Hunters Point Community, San Francisco, CA
1999-2003Appointed Commissioner by San Francisco's Mayor to the Southeast Community Facility Commission, San Francisco, CA
1991-2003Appointed Member by San Francisco's Mayor to the Citizens Advisory Committee for Re-Use of Hunter's Point Shipyard
2001U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9 (Hawaii, Guam, California, Nevada and Arizona), Environmental Achievement Awardto Heidi Hardin, Children’s Mural Program in recognition of outstanding leadership in protecting the environment and public health for this and future generations, San Francisco, CA
Certificate of Appreciation, Senator Barbra Boxer, for outstanding service, San Francisco, CA
1997, 2001Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, for The Children's Mural Program and BEEP! in recognition of outstanding service, San Francisco, CA
1984"Gaslamp Quarter Senior Citizens Arts Festival" Poster Design, San Diego, CA
1984Named San Diego's top Muralist and Stencil Design Artist for the Victorian Period, San Diego Magazine, June 1982, "Gaslamp Quarter Murals Project," Fifth and Island Sts., San Diego, CA
1981Honorable Mention, Outstanding Concept Award, Cheer at Children's Hospital Wall Design Competition, Los Angeles, CA
1980Received the California Arts Council Award for Artists in Social Institutions, San Diego, CA
Business/Teaching/Art-Related Experience:
2012-13Owner Director, Hardin Studios, San Francisco, CA
2004-13Founder/Chief Executive Officer/Executive Director, Think Round, Inc., San Francisco, CA
2010-11Lead Artist/Administrator/Program Coordinator/Fundraiser, Grant Writer/Art Instructor,Stream of Consciousness, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, San Francisco, CA
2009Founder/Administrator/Program Coordinator/Fundraiser, Grant Writer/Art Instructor,Senior Multi-Arts Program, The Bayview Opera House, San Francisco, CA
2007-08Founder/Administrator/Program Coordinator/Fundraiser, Grant Writer/Art Instructor, FAMILY ARTS Program, The Bayview Opera House. San Francisco, CA
Founder/Administrator/Program Coordinator/Fundraiser, Grant Writer/Art Instructor, TEEN Theater Arts (Set Design and Mural) Program, The Bayview Opera House and Willie Brown Academy, San Francisco, CA
2006-07Program Coordinator, The Founders’ Mural, Southeast Community Facility, San Francisco, CA
2004-06Program Coordinator/Lead Artist, Dialogues In Culture, The Bayview Opera House, San Francisco, CA
Think Round, Inc. become a founding member of The Bayview Footprints Network, San Francisco, CA
2000-05Founder/Administrator/Program Coordinator/Fundraiser, Grant Writer/Nature Guide, KEEP! (Kid’s Environmental Education Program): schools include Dr. Charles R. Drew, 21st Century Academy, Dr. George Washington Carver Academic, Bret Harte and Malcolm X Academy Elementary Schools, for the Bayview Opera House, San Francisco, CA (offered as funding allowed)
1992-07Founder/Administrator/Program Coordinator/Fundraiser, Grant Writer/Art Instructor, The Children's Mural Program: schools include George Washington Carver, Bret Harte, Malcolm X Academy, 21st Century Academy and Charles Drew Elementary Schools for the Bayview Opera House, San Francisco, CA (offered as funding allowed)
1997-99Instructor, Animal Drawing, City College of San Francisco, Continuing Education Program, San Francisco, CA
1996, 1998-99Presenter, Arts Education Funders Collaborative, San Francisco, CA, presentations include "Enhancing Reading Skills Through The Visual Arts," "Teaching Painting to Pre-K Children," "Teaching Painting to Children"
1994-99Museum Artist, "Big/Kids Little Kids" and "Doing and Viewing Art," FineArtsMuseums of San Francisco (Supervisor from 1996-99), San Francisco, CA
1994-5, 1997Acting Director, Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theater, San Francisco, CA
1996Curator, "Women Artists Painting Women's Issues," Bayview Opera House, San Francisco, CA
1994-96Administrator/Program Coordinator/Grant Writer/Art Specialist, "Our Part of Town,parts I, II, & III," Bayview Opera House, San Francisco, CA
1994Director, Cafe Poetry and Arts Month, San Francisco, CA
1993Art Production Specialist and"Politics," June Calendar Image, "12 Women Artists from Hunters Point Shipyard," A Calendar for Special Days, San Francisco, CA
1990-91, 1993Instructor, Art History, NationalUniversity, San Jose, CA
Bibliography:
Joyce Lieberman – Western Watch, “Grand Opening of New Studio and Gallery,” December 2012, p. 1
David Perry – San Francisco Sentinel.com, “New Public Art to be unveiled at Shipyard…,” Sunday, November 4, 2012,
Michele Anderson – SF Open Studio Guide, “Art Supporter Spotlight: Lennar Urban,” October 2012, Vol. 12, p. 38
John Wildermuth – San Francisco Chronicle and SF Gate, “$1 Million of Art to Grace Public Space in Bayview,” Sunday, May 23, 2010, Bay Area Section C, p.1
Heidi Hardin – Bayview Footprints Newsletter, “New Bayview Mural, MLK Day of Service,” January 2009, Volume 2, Issue 1, p. 1
Staff Writer- The Examiner, "Kudos: High Five Current Accomplishments," July 28, 2008, p. 15
Jason B. Johnson - The San Francisco Chronicle, "Community center faces tough times," May 13, 2005, F1, F5
Casey Mills - BeyondChron.org, "Bayview Opera House Expanding Size, Kids' Horizons," April 28, 2005, Cover Story, (
Marilee Reyes - San Jacinto Press-Enterprise, "Exhibit to celebrate spirit," October 23, 2004, B3
Mark Muckenfuss - San Jacinto Press-Enterprise, "Second Chance to See Works," October 2004
Annie Nakao - The San Francisco Chronicle, "Simple snapshots become loving tributes--and a mirror into our shared experience--in Heidi Hardin's paintings," January 7, 2004, D1-D2
Staff Writer - The San Francisco Chronicle, "Bayview Murals," May 22, 2003
Tiffany Maleshefski - The San Francisco Examiner, "Art meets sewage plant," May 20, 2003, p. 4
Tiffany Maleshefski - The Independent, "Children make peace with a controversial sewage-treatment
plant by covering it with murals," May 20, 2003, p. 9
Staff Writer - The San Francisco Examiner, "Enjoying Their Art," May 14, 2003
Rodrigo Diaz - San Francisco Art Commission Website, "Featured Artist," January-March 2003
Anonymous- Environmental Clean-Up NEWS, US Navy, Hunters Point Shipyard, Summer/Fall Expanded Issue, "Local 5th Graders Learn About Environmental Issues at Hunters Point Shipyard," April-September 2002, p.7
Anonymous-Environmental Cleanup Newsletter, US Navy, Hunters Point Shipyard, "Art Project Helps Students Learn about Environment at Hunters Point Shipyard", April-June 2001
Sierra Arts-ENCORE Magazine, Vol. 26, No.3, Reno, NV, "Hardin's 'Families' is at Metro Gallery," March 2001, p.5
Rodrigo Diaz - San Francisco Art Commission Website, "Featured Artist," October-December 2001
Anonymous - WesterBreeze, Vol. 13, No.1, Hitachi America, LTD., "Community Commitment: Beth Mosley Employee Profile," January, February, March 2000, p.3
Shelley Bradford Bell - Bayview Heritage Magazine, "Children's Mural Program Begins Its Seventh Year," Cover Story, Winter, 1999
Heidi Hardin - Bayview Heritage Magazine, "Children's Mural Program," Summer 1999, p. 6
Anonymous - Environmental Clean-Up NEWS, US Navy, Hunters Point Shipyard, Issue 55, "Children Learn Cleanup Process at Shipyard," December 1977, Special Youth Edition
Anonymous - Environmental Clean-Up NEWS, US Navy, Hunters Point Shipyard, Issue 47, "Environmental and Arts Education Program at Local Schools," May 1996, Cover Story
Photo and graphic art inclusions - The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Bayview, The Independent, (1992-7)
Poster and Brochure Design - Institute for Medicine and the Arts, Austin, TX, 1991
Poster Design and Program Cover - Women's InternationalCenter First Living Legacy Awards - Hotel
Del Coronado, San Diego, CA, March 1984
Joe Klein - Downtown, San Diego, "Artist Heidi Hardin...," Nov. 1, 1982
Amanda Covarhaubias - Los Angeles Times, "Mural Lights Up Down-And -Outers' Lives," September 27, 1982
Anthony Perry - San Diego Union, "Murals Get Mixed Reviews," August 12, 1982
Elise Miller - Los Angeles Times, "Commission Winners Light Up Gaslamp Quarter," August 11, 1982
Dirk Sutro - San Diego Daily Transcript, "A Colorful Mural... Steel Guts, Rehabilitation Give
Callan Hotel New Life," August 10, 1982
Mary Hellman - San Diego Union, "Gaslamp Quarter Gets Mural Touch Up," July 4, 1982
Stephen Heffner - Downtown, San Diego, "Gaslamp Selects 5 Mural Contest Finalists," June 12, 1982
Gordon Smith - San Diego Reader, "Today's Subject is Tomorrow's Art," January 21, 1982
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Los AngelesCountyMuseum of Art - Members Calendar, March 1981
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Suanne Muchnic - "Realism: A Summer Spread is Showing," Los Angeles Times, July 14, 1980
Amy Chu - "Art of the Family," San Diego Reader, December 13, 1979
Adrienne Rosenthal - "San Diego Artists," ARTWEEK, April 8, 1979
James Britton II - "Big San Diego Show, 26 Artists Put on Map," San Diego Union, July 13, 1979
Hand Painted Book - "Oklahoma Is O.K.," 1978
David Lewinson - "Images from the World of Vision," The Triton Times, May 8, 1978
Collections:
Laguna Beach MuseumTony Berg, Los Angeles, CA
Fred Berglass, Los Angeles, CA
Joni & Monte Gordon, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Isenberg, Los, Angeles, CA
Robert and Ingrid Coffin, San Diego, CA
Jim Gibson, San Diego, CA
Jonathan Sacks, Los Angeles, CA
Lynne H. Kearney, St. Petersberg, FL
Dr. Bill Tullis & Dr. V. Jane Derebery, Austin, TX
Dr. & Mrs. Donald Kelly, Los Angeles, CA
Helen Lewis, Los Angeles, CA
Edmond “Ted” Quarry, San Francisco, CA / Security Pacific National Bank
Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA
Kathryn Bruzzone, Esq., Layfayette, CA
Jeff Schaffer, San Francisco, CA
Linbergh Porter, Jr., San Francisco, CA
James Ward, San Francisco, CA
Scott Madison, San Francisco, CA
Joyce and Alan Shaw, San Francisco, CA
Rita Hernandez, San Francisco, CA
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Mel & Gae Shulman, Oakland, CA
M. Stiefel, New York, NY
Sheryl Williams, Elmira, NY
ashort biography
Originally from Oklahoma City, Heidi Hardin received her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Painting in 1979 and Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1976. Her teachers included Manny Farber, Patricia Patterson, Eleanorand David Antin, Alexis Smith and Kim McConnell. She spenther last year of graduate study at the Whitney Museum of American Arts Independent Study Program for Painters and Sculptors in New York Cityworking primarily withDavid Diao.While at UCSD sheservedfor several years as studio assistant to Newton and Helen Harrison.Alan Kaprow, the director of the Art Department while she was a student at UCSD, had,as did her teachers and other faculty, a major influence on her learning. She has exhibited her paintings nationally in galleries and museums for the past thirty years and has taught visual arts in San Francisco elementary and high schools, art history at the college level at UCSD and National University and drawing at City College of San Francisco.
Her exhibit/installation, Families in Paradise… (Part II of Paradise…) opened at SomArts main gallery in San Francisco receiving front page recognition in the entertainment section of the SF Chronicle in January of 2004 in a feature article titled, “Simple snapshots become loving tributes—and a mirror into our shared experiences—in Heidi Hardin’s paintings.” The Human Family Tree… (Part I of Paradise…) premiered at the Bayview Opera House in San Francisco in December 2000 to acclaim by the Senate, Congress, California State Assembly and the SF Board of Supervisors. This installation reopened at Newspace in LA on September 11, 2001. Her artwork was represented by Newspace, LA until from the early 1980s until 2006 when the gallery closed and its archives—along with Ms. Hardin's exhibits—became a part of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D. C..
As an original Hunters Point Shipyard (HPS) Citizen’s Advisory Committee member, Ms. Hardin has been teaching community children and their families for the past twenty years about the Superfund Cleanup and Reuse of Hunters Point Shipyard in Bayview Hunters Point schoolsthrough her innovative art and science curriculum, The Children’s Mural Program (CMP). Over the years, there have been dozens of public murals painted by CMP students on view throughout the community at destinations like the Oakdale campus of City College, the SF main and local Bayview post offices, Bayview Shopping Plaza, the Anna Waden Library, the Southeast Water Treatment Facility and more. In 2010, Ms. Hardin and Think Round were awarded one of the nine public art commissions for HPS through the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) HPS Public Art Program. In 2010-11, more than 60 local CMP students participated in the creation of this commission, titled STREAM of CONSCIOUSNESS, a 120’ x 1’ handmade ceramic and mosaic tile mural. Thanks to the support of the SFRA Public Art Program and many involved in the redevelopment process, this artwork (1’ x 120”) will be installed in the back of two benches at the soon to be constructed Hill Point Park at HPS.