Selected Press and Media — Hilary Harkness

Hilary Harkness: Persisting Matters (presented by the Center for Italian Modern Art) 2024

The Timeless Enigma of Gertrude Stein

Frieze Magazine

April 23, 2025

The pioneering novelist and poet, who championed avant-garde practices, continues to inspire contemporary artists and writers

The Year in Art Books: Our Critics Pick Their Favorite Titles

The painter’s comprehensive monograph, which spans nearly 25 years, could not arrive soon enough for an audience primed by her knock-out show last year.

The 30 Best Art Books of 2024

Hyperallergic

November 25, 2024

Harkness’s witty painted worlds riff on artistic and literary histories, as well as American history, and feel timeless in many ways, but offer a particularly compelling commentary at this moment.

Artful Volumes

Bookforum contributors on the season’s outstanding art books

[A] lush monograph of the artist’s work with essays by Lynne Tillman and Ashley Jackson, charts the evolution of Harkness’s work, as the anonymous pillaging mannequins give way to figures with actual names, history, and the capacity for connection, specifically Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, along with Josephine Baker, Henri Matisse, and the disembodied head of Ernest Hemingway.

August 1, 2024

Where Funhouse Erotics Meet Art History

Hyperallergic

July 10, 2024

A new volume of Hilary Harkness’s paintings enfolds us into surreal worlds of gender-bending militaries, feminine revenge, and alternative histories.

What Sustained Us 2023: Visual Art

BOMB

December 19, 2023

For this year-end list, BOMB asked Zoë Buckman, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Sean Fader, Hilary Harkness, Justine Kurland, Le’Andra LeSeur, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Tracey Rose, Jason Stopa, Pace Taylor, and Quay Quinn Wolf to tell us what sustained them.

The Best New York Art Shows of 2023

Vulture

December 7, 2023

Queer cutouts, portable candies, and a retrospective of an American master.

A Painter's New Civil War

Vulture

November 17, 2023

The work of Hilary Harkness makes me think of early Renaissance paintings with their dazzling detail, lyrical line, delicate parts, and highly keyed local color. The sense that you are seeing everything at once. Except the subject matter is a bit different.

'Hilary Harkness: Prisoners from the Front' Review: A Retouched Portrait of the Civil War

The Wall Street Journal

November 3, 2023

The painter’s first solo show in a decade, at PPOW, offers an imaginative alternate history set immediately before, during and after the War Between the States.

What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in November

The New York Times

November 1, 2023

Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Check out a compact Edward Hopper exhibition in the Upper East Side, and don’t miss Arthur Dove’s visionary landscapes and Hilary Harkness’s jewel-like canvases in TriBeCa.

Hilary Harkness Interviewed by Ksenia M. Soboleva

BOMB

October 30, 2023

Paintings that offer semi-real and entirely imagined historical narratives.

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Chernas

New York Magazine

October 20, 2023

Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.

Hilary Harkness's Intricate Paintings Confront America's Troubled History

Elephant

October 20, 2023

Artists to Watch This Month: 10 Solo Gallery Shows in New York Not to Miss in October

Artnet News

October 14, 2023

There is nothing better than a crisp autumn day for gallery hopping and, luckily, New York’s gallery shows are changing as fast as the weather. We’ve surveyed the solo show landscape and there’s plenty to peep besides leaves this October.

10 Art Shows We Can't Wait to See This Fall

Vulture

August 24, 2023

A wealth of dazzling exhibitions will renew your faith in art’s capacity to do more than mint money.

Johns, Merryn, Bold Strokes: An Out Lesbian Enjoys Acclaim and Controversy, CURVE MAGAZINE, October 2013. — Johns, Merryn, *Bold Strokes: An Out Lesbian Enjoys Acclaim and Controversy,* CURVE MAGAZINE, October 2013.

MacAdam, Alfred, Hilary Harkness at FLAG Art Foundation, ARTnews, Summer 2013.

Russeth, Andrew, If Memory Serves...: Hilary Harkness on Her Paintings, at the Andaz Hotel, GLALLERISTNY, February 2013. — Russeth, Andrew, *If Memory Serves...: Hilary Harkness on Her Paintings, at the Andaz Hotel*, GLALLERISTNY, February 2013.

Heti, Sheila, The Process, THE BELIEVER MAGAZINE, Sept. 2011. — Heti, Sheila, *The Process*, THE BELIEVER MAGAZINE, Sept. 2011.

‘JM’, Hilary Harkness: Artist to Watch, THE ART ECONOMIST, Volume 1 issue 3, 2011.

Honigman, Ana Finel, HMS Dystopia: All the real, mean girls, ANOTHER MAGAZINE, Spring/Summer 2008 p. 138. — Honigman, Ana Finel, *HMS Dystopia: All the real, mean girls*, ANOTHER MAGAZINE, Spring/Summer 2008 p. 138.

Staff, Figurative Women We Love: The Sailors in Hilary Harness's Paintings, ESQUIRE, November, 2008, p. 120. — Staff, *Figurative Women We Love: The Sailors in Hilary Harness's Paintings*, ESQUIRE, November, 2008, p. 120.

Levin, Kim, Hilary Harkness, ART NEWS, Summer 2008, pp. 166-167. — Levin, Kim, *Hilary Harkness*, ART NEWS, Summer 2008, pp. 166-167.

Mac Adam, Alfred, Old School, ART NEWS September, 2007, pp 155-156. — Mac Adam, Alfred, *Old School*, ART NEWS September, 2007, pp 155-156.

Baker, R.C., Catching enigmas in a bottle: Girls gone wild in hot oil, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 18 May 2005, p. 83. — Baker, R.C., *Catching enigmas in a bottle: Girls gone wild in hot oil*, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 18 May 2005, p. 83.

Gardner, James, Art Attack: Hilary Harkness, THE NEW YORK POST, 14 May 2005, p. 29. — Gardner, James, *Art Attack: Hilary Harkness*, THE NEW YORK POST, 14 May 2005, p. 29.

Honigman, Ana Finel, Emerging Artists: Sex and Power, Hilary Harkness's Violent Femmes, MODERN PAINTERS, February 2005, pp. 54-55. — Honigman, Ana Finel, *Emerging Artists: Sex and Power*, Hilary Harkness's Violent Femmes, MODERN PAINTERS, February 2005, pp. 54-55.

Valdez, Sarah, Hilary Harknes at Mary Boone, ART IN AMERICA, October 2004, pp. 157-158. — Valdez, Sarah, *Hilary Harknes at Mary Boone*, ART IN AMERICA, October 2004, pp. 157-158.

Kerr, Merrily, Hilary Harkness, TIME OUT NEW YORK, 24 June 2004, p. 69. — Kerr, Merrily, *Hilary Harkness*, TIME OUT NEW YORK, 24 June 2004, p. 69.

Honigman, Ana Finel, Hilary Harkness, MODERN PAINTERS, June 2004, pp.130-131. — Honigman, Ana Finel, *Hilary Harkness*, MODERN PAINTERS, June 2004, pp.130-131.

Interview Magazine June 2004 — Interview Magazine
June 2004

Reed, John, Sailing Forth from Lesbos, GAY CITY NEWS, June 23, 2004.

Staff, Hilary Harkness, THE NEW YORKER, 31 May 2004, p.14. — Staff, *Hilary Harkness*, THE NEW YORKER, 31 May 2004, p.14.

Dougherty, Cecilia, Temporary Headquarters, NEST, December 2001, pp.162 - 171. — Dougherty, Cecilia, *Temporary Headquarters*, NEST, December 2001, pp.162 - 171.

Amy, Michael, Hilary Harkness at Bill Maynes, ART IN AMERICA, November 2001, p. 151. — Amy, Michael, *Hilary Harkness at Bill Maynes*, ART IN AMERICA, November 2001, p. 151.

Saltz, Jerry, Woman Overboard, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 8 May 2001, p. 65. — Saltz, Jerry, *Woman Overboard*, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 8 May 2001, p. 65.

Hunt, David, Do Not Disturb, SMOCK, May 2001, pp. 108 - 113. — Hunt, David, *Do Not Disturb*, SMOCK, May 2001, pp. 108 - 113.

Johnson, Ken, Hilary Harkness/Mary Carlson, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 27 April 2001, p. E31. — Johnson, Ken, *Hilary Harkness/Mary Carlson*, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 27 April 2001, p. E31.

Freedman, Marcy, Making the Cut, SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY, 9 December 1998. — Freedman, Marcy, *Making the Cut*, SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY, 9 December 1998.