Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
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Molly Zuckerman-Hartung is a painter and writer who grew up in Olympia, Washington and participated in Riot Grrrl in her formative years. She attended the Evergreen State College in the 1990s, which introduced her to holistic structural ideas about aesthetics and politics, and she received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She makes painting-objects that explore affect, critical theory and psychoanalytic ideas through drawing, cutting, folding, pouring and materials. She has published essays on many artists including Michelle Grabner, Dala Nasser, and Munro Galloway, and a recent text for the 50 Paintings exhibition catalogue in Milwaukee. She also participated in roundtables on Howardena Pindell, Albert Oehlen, and a symposium with Lauren Berlant and William Pope.L titled Painting and its Humours at University of Chicago in 2015. She has shown at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The 2014 Whitney Biennial, Kadel Willborn in Karlsruhe, Germany etc.
In 2021 she opened a mid-career survey show at the Blaffer in Houston, Texas, Comic Relief,. She is a frequent guest lecturer at schools including, in recent years, University of Georgia, UCLA, Hunter College at CUNY, The University of Ohio, Cranbrook, University of Alabama, the SAIC Low Residency Program, and Cornell College.
Her work is in the collection at The Walker Museum in Minneapolis, The Carnegie in Pittsburgh, The Booth School of Business at University of Chicago, and the Berkeley Art Museum. Zuckerman-Hartung is represented by Corbett vs Dempsey in Chicago, and she is Associate Professor of painting at UCLA.
