About the artist

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. She makes paintings and cuts them up and pieces them back together with other paintings. Zuckerman-Hartung makes paintings about a very wide range of topics. Through an intensive process of situated criticality and curiosity, she seeks out knowledge of her subject by painting it.

She has shown at The Blaffer Museum in Houston, TX, 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, accompanied by a monograph. She was a full time senior critic at Yale School of Art until 2021, and is now teaching part time at Yale and RISD, as well as low res MFA advising at various schools around the country. She is a frequent guest lecturer at schools including, in recent years, 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.