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K8 Hardy
K8 Hardy (born 1977, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American artist and filmmaker. Hardy's work spans painting, sculpture, video, and photography and her work has been exhibited internationally at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, Tensta Konsthall, Karma International, and the Dallas Contemporary. Hardy's work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. She is a founding member of the queer feminist artist collective and journal LTTR. She lives and works in New York, New York.
Hardy was born on October 27, 1977, in Fort Worth, Texas. Hardy uses the moniker "K8" as shorthand for her first name which she adopted while publishing zines in high school.
She attended Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated with a degree in film and feminist/queer theory in 2000. She studied video with Elisabeth Subrin through the Five College Consortium. Later, she worked alongside Miranda July and the Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon.
In 2003, she studied at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 2003 alongside other artists like Ulrike Mueller and Lisa Oppenheim.
Hardy went on to receive an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 2008.
In 2001, K8 Hardy co-founded LTTR, a genderqueer feminist art collective in New York. The collective's co-creators include Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Emily Roysdon, and, in 2005, Ulrike Müller joined the collective. LTTR's mission centered on "highlighting the work of radical communities whose goals are sustainable change, queer pleasure, and critical feminist productivity." LTTR first began as a journal and eventually expanded to include live events, screenings, collaborations, read-ins, and workshops.
Hardy started a color-photocopy zine, FashionFashion, in 2002. FashionFashion depicted Hardy styled in second-hand clothing. The zine morphed into a solo exhibition of four oversized books exhibited at Higher Pictures Generation in 2014 and Reena Spaulings Fine Art in 2019. Writer Andrew Durbin has noted that the zine is somewhere between avant couture and "riot grrrlesque" and features various self-portraits alongside handwritten musings on ghosts.
From 2002 to 2007, Hardy and Greenwood created? New Report. The piece featured both artists playing female newscasters for a fictional radio show, WKRH, and reporting on the news. Both artists, clad in berets, trench coats, and turtlenecks, touch upon subjects such as '60s and '70s feminism, queer politics, and mental health through various different activities: burning bras, in-depth interviews, and various news reports utilizing a giant pink microphone.
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K8 Hardy
K8 Hardy (born 1977, Fort Worth, Texas) is an American artist and filmmaker. Hardy's work spans painting, sculpture, video, and photography and her work has been exhibited internationally at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, Tensta Konsthall, Karma International, and the Dallas Contemporary. Hardy's work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. She is a founding member of the queer feminist artist collective and journal LTTR. She lives and works in New York, New York.
Hardy was born on October 27, 1977, in Fort Worth, Texas. Hardy uses the moniker "K8" as shorthand for her first name which she adopted while publishing zines in high school.
She attended Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated with a degree in film and feminist/queer theory in 2000. She studied video with Elisabeth Subrin through the Five College Consortium. Later, she worked alongside Miranda July and the Northwest Film Center in Portland, Oregon.
In 2003, she studied at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 2003 alongside other artists like Ulrike Mueller and Lisa Oppenheim.
Hardy went on to receive an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 2008.
In 2001, K8 Hardy co-founded LTTR, a genderqueer feminist art collective in New York. The collective's co-creators include Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Emily Roysdon, and, in 2005, Ulrike Müller joined the collective. LTTR's mission centered on "highlighting the work of radical communities whose goals are sustainable change, queer pleasure, and critical feminist productivity." LTTR first began as a journal and eventually expanded to include live events, screenings, collaborations, read-ins, and workshops.
Hardy started a color-photocopy zine, FashionFashion, in 2002. FashionFashion depicted Hardy styled in second-hand clothing. The zine morphed into a solo exhibition of four oversized books exhibited at Higher Pictures Generation in 2014 and Reena Spaulings Fine Art in 2019. Writer Andrew Durbin has noted that the zine is somewhere between avant couture and "riot grrrlesque" and features various self-portraits alongside handwritten musings on ghosts.
From 2002 to 2007, Hardy and Greenwood created? New Report. The piece featured both artists playing female newscasters for a fictional radio show, WKRH, and reporting on the news. Both artists, clad in berets, trench coats, and turtlenecks, touch upon subjects such as '60s and '70s feminism, queer politics, and mental health through various different activities: burning bras, in-depth interviews, and various news reports utilizing a giant pink microphone.