Jennifer Bartlett

° 1943

Lives in Long Beach (United States).

Jennifer Bartlett emerged in the 1970s as one of the leading American artists of her time, and one of the first female painters of her generation to be both commercially successful and critically influential. When her monumental painting, Rhapsody, was first shown in 1976, it was regarded as a “tour­ de­ force postmodern pastiche” of the history of modern art. Over the course of her 50-year career, Bartlett has become known for her process-oriented, abstract works that offer viewers challenging and inventive narratives. Bartlett’s work resides in public collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Tate Modern, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

About M HKA / Mission Statement

The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in Flanders and to extend its international profile by building upon Antwerp's avant-garde tradition. The M HKA bridges the relationship between artistic questions and wider societal issues, between the international and the regional, artists and public, tradition and innovation, reflection and presentation. Central here is the museum's collection with its ongoing acquisitions, as well as related areas of management and research.

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The M HKA Ensembles represent our first steps towards initiating the public to today's art-related digital landscape. With the help of these new media, our aim is to offer our artworks a better and fuller array of support for their presentation and public understanding.