John Hanhardt

John G. Hanhardt is an American author, art historian, and curator of film and media arts.[1] Hanhardt was the Consulting Senior Curator for Media Arts at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, where he developed exhibitions, collections, and archives in film and the media arts. He is considered to be one of the leading scholars on video artist Nam June Paik.[1]

Personal life

Hanhardt grew up in Rochester, New York.[2] He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester in 1967, and his master's degree and additional graduate work (ABD) in cinema studies from New York University in 1970.[1]

Hanhardt has written many books and in 2019 came out with a new book,We Are in Open Circuits- Writings by Nam June Paik

Career

Hanhardt’s expansive curatorial practice spans three decades. Hanhardt began his career in the department of Film and Video at the Museum of Modern Art. He then went on to establish the first Film and Media Arts collection at the Walker Art Museum. Following his success at the Walker, Hanhardt was appointed Curator and Head of the Film and Video department at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974.[3] At the Whitney, Hanhardt was the director of the New American Film and Video Series which surveyed independent film and the emergence of video as an art form. He is also responsible for developing the museum's video art installation collection.[4] In 1996, Hanhardt was appointed Senior Curator of Film and Media Arts at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum where he developed “its international exhibition program, as well as its video installation art collection."[5] In 2006, he was appointed as the Consulting Senior Curator for Film and Media Arts and the Nam June Paik Art Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[6]

In addition to his museum experience, Hanhardt has published, lectured, and taught extensively on film and media art. He has held adjunct teaching positions at Columbia University, Harvard University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rhode Island School of Design, Middlebury College, and Williams College.[7]

Exhibitions curated
  • Re-Visions: Projects and Proposals in Film and Video (1969)[8]
  • Nam June Paik (1982)
  • Blam! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism, and Performance 1958–1964 (1984)[9]
  • The Films of Andy Warhol (1988)[10]
  • Video Art: Expanded Forms (1988)
  • Yoko Ono: Films (1989)
  • Co-curator, Image World: Art and Media Culture (1989–90)[11]
  • Beat Culture and the New America: 1950–1965 (1995)
  • Robert Frank: Moving Out (1995)[12]
  • Project Director of the Andy Warhol Film Project (1988–present)[13]
  • Nam June Paik: Global Visionary (2012)
  • Friendly Witnesses: The Worlds of Warren Sonbert (1999) with Jon Gartenberg[14]

Publications

As a writer, critic, and editor, Hanhardt has been a contributor to numerous exhibition catalogues, journals, and other arts publications.[15] He has written and co-written several books on Korean American video artist Nam June Paik, some of which include The Worlds of Nam June Paik (2003), Nam June Paik: Global Groove (2004), and Nam June Paik: Global Visionary (2012). He is the editor of Video Culture: A Critical Investigation (1986).

Awards

In 1993, Hanhardt was the recipient of the Peter Norton Family Foundation Curator's Grant for outstanding curatorial work.[7]

References
  1. "Smithsonian American Art Museum : John G. Hanhardt ; Consulting Senior Curator" (PDF). Americanart.si.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-04. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  2. "Art Archives". DCist.com. Archived from the original on 2007-08-23. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  3. "Film and Media Curator John G. Hanhardt Donates His Archives to CCS Bard | In the Air | BLOUIN ARTINFO Blogs". blogs.artinfo.com. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  4. "BardCEP | News & Announcements". bard.edu. Archived from the original on 14 June 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  5. "Changing Scenes: Points of View in Contemporary Media Art | Fabric Workshop and Museum". Fabricworkshopandmuseum.org. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  6. "Smithsonian American Art Museum : John G. Hanhardt : Senior Curator" (PDF). Americanart.si.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-04. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  7. Miguel Angel Corzo Mortality Immortality?: The Legacy of 20th-Century Art, Getty Conservation Institute. 1999
  8. "Full text of "Re-visions : projects and proposals in fim and video."". Archive.org. 1979-05-13. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  9. "Blam! The explosion of pop, minimalism, and performance 1958-1964 : Haskell, Barbara : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive". Archive.org. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  10. "Andy Warhol Film Project | Whitney Museum of American Art". Whitney.org. 2015-05-01. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  11. "Exhibitions". Friedmanbenda.com. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  12. "Robert Frank". nga.gov. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
  13. "The Andy Warhol Film Project at "To Save and Project: The 11th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation" | Whitney Museum of American Art". Whitney.org. 2015-05-01. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
  14. Gartenberg, Jon (Fall 2002). "The Fragile Emulsion". The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. 2 (2): 153. JSTOR 41167089.
  15. "Hanhardt". fundaciotapies.org. Retrieved 29 April 2015.

Further reading

Hanhardt's comments on the prominence of holographic art:

  • Lightfoot, D. Tulla (1989). "Contemporary Art-World Bias in Regard to Display Holography: New York City". Leonardo. 22 (3): 421. doi:10.2307/1575409.
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