Pat Hearn Gallery

Defunct US contemporary art gallery, opened between November 1983 and 2000 in New York City and managed by Pat Hearn (1955—2000), a distinguished art dealer and gallerist. After she died from cancer, aged 45, Pat Hearn Gallery collections were acquired by Center For Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Pat Hearn was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and studied at Boston's Museum School. She began creating videos and performance art during her semester abroad in France, where she worked at an artist-run art space l'Usine Pali-Kao in Belleville, Paris. After returning to the United States, Pat Hearn opened her first gallery space in November 1983, in New York's East Village, on Avenue B. In 1988, Pat Hearn Gallery moved to southwest Soho; in 1995, after the second relocation, it became one of the first commercial art galleries in Chelsea. Pat Hearn posed for several critically-acclaimed artworks, including Andy Warhol's silkscreen portraits in 1985 and her '87 photo portrait in the "Art World" series by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Pat Hearn Gallery had a multigenerational roster of painters, photographers, filmmakers, and performance & conceptual artists, including Philip Taaffe, Milan Kunc, Peter Schuyff, Jutta Koether, Gretchen Faust (3), Susan Hiller, Renee Green, George Condo, Jack Pierson, Mark Morrisroe, Jimmy De Sana, Mary Heilmann, Joan Jonas, and numerous others.