RESUME
EDUCATION
2004 M.F.A. Painting, Texas Christian University
1986 B.F.A. Sculpture and Painting, Texas Christian University
HONORS
1984-1986 Texas Christian University, Nordan Fine Arts Scholarship
1983-1984 Texas Christian University, Samuel P. Ziegler Scholarship
1982-1983 Texas Christian University, Fine Arts Guild Scholarship
RESIDENCY PROGRAMS
2010 The Atelier House, an Art-Netzwerk associated project, Hilmsen, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Once Upon a Time, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas (catalogue)
2015 Tin Toys & Raw Realities, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas, Curator: Caleb Bell (catalogue)
2013 Now and Then, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Childhood Play | Adult Realities, Gallery 193, San Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas, Curator: Randy Hall
2012 Make Believe, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, Texas, Curator: Richard Ash
2010 Multiplicity, Antena, Chicago, Illinois
Make Believe, Gallery III, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas
2009 Scattershot, Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas,
2007 Flashback, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Searching for Heroes, Kresge Gallery, Lyon College, Batesville, AR
Imperfections: Big and Small, Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
2005 John Hartley, Rudolph Projects|ArtScan Gallery, Houston, Texas
2004 Allegories, Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
Against the Grain, The University Art Gallery, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
2003 John Hartley: Rekindled, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas, Curator: Kevin Bouchard
2002 Hope and Renewal, Mobil Art Gallery, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois
2000 John Hartley: New Works, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Art Palm Springs, Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, California
Spring Gallery Night, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
2016 Structure and Change, deadWEST Gallery, Lakeside, Texas
Art Hamptons, Bridgehampton, New York
Open Range, deadWEST Gallery, Lakeside, Texas
Greatest Hits, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Magic Realism, Greg Thompson Fine Art Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas
Nature’s First Green is Gold, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Spring Gallery Night, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Faculty Exhibition, Tarrant County College Northwest Campus, Fort Worth, Texas
2015 Holiday Show & Small Works, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma
pARTy, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Selections 2015, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
201426, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Art of the Gearhead, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas
Faculty Exhibition, Tarrant County College Northwest Campus, Fort Worth, Texas
Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Sibling Revelry, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
2013 Selections, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
Best of the South, Greg Thompson Fine Art Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas
Like, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Velveasl, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Faculty Exhibition, Tarrant County College Northwest Campus, Fort Worth, Texas
2012 The Realist Impulse, Rudolph Blume Fine Art Artscan Gallery, Houston, Texas
Peripheral Vision, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Houston Fine Art Fair, Reliant Center, Houston, Texas
Pop Up, Artspace 111, Midland, Texas
Inaugural Exhibition, The Vault, Troy, Ohio
Selections, Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Sky Blue Sky, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
2011 Faculty Exhibition, Tarrant County College Northwest Campus, Fort Worth, Texas
Summer in Santa Fe, Artspace 111, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Luminous Discharge, H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, El Centro College, Dallas, Texas
2010 Artifact, Northwest Branch Library, Fort Worth, Texas
Quantumdada Phase 2, Rudolph Blume Fine Art | ArtScan Gallery, Houston, Texas
Faculty Exhibition, Tarrant County College Northwest Campus, Fort Worth, Texas
Home is Where the ART Is, Rudolph Blume Fine Art | ArtScan Gallery, Houston, Texas
Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Art in the District, Fairmont Hotel, Dallas, Texas
Side Show, Dallas Public Arts Project, Dallas, Texas
2009 Painting, Prints and Presents, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Faculty Biennial X, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, Texas
Thrashing About, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth Art Dealers Association Presents: Fort Worth Art Today, Gallery 76102, Fort Worth, Texas
Summer Show, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Artspace 111: Selections, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Curator: Margery Grella
Dallas Art Fair 2009, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
American Landscape: Urban/Rural, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Selections 2009: FWADA Exhibit, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2008 Blender, The Gallery at Reel FX, Dallas, Texas
Bridge Art Fair Miami 08, Miami, Florida
Fun & Games, Kidder Smith, Boston, MA
News, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
It Is What It Is, Janette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Academia: Pushing the Boundary, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
WORTHwhile, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Faculty Biennial IX, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, Texas
Collectors Club Collects, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Fotofest: Photography = Painting, Rudolph Projects|ArtScan Gallery, Houston, Texas
Tasty Bits, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas, Curator: Erik Tosten
2007 Face It, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Red Velvet: Making a Case for Domestic Tranquility, Vine Street Studios, Houston, Texas
Darra Keeton: Fuller/Gallery Artists, Rudolph Projects|ArtScan Gallery, Houston, Texas
Mighty Fine Arts, Polvo Gallery, Chicago, Curator: Steve Cruz
Scope Art Fair, Rudolph Projects|ArtScan Gallery, Miami, Florida
Spring Gallery Night, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
2006 25, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Big as Night, Tyler Street Lofts, Dallas, Texas
From My Father’s Chair, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Valdosta Collects Exhibition, VSU Gallery, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia
Scope Art Fair, Rudolph Projects|ArtScan Gallery, Miami, Florida
Los Angeles Art Fair, Rudolph Projects|ArtScan Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2005Faculty Biennial VIII, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, Texas
Figuring In, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Curator: Daniel Blagg
Objects of Memory, Kidder Smith Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
Spring Gallery Night, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Still: John Hartley and Leighton McWilliams, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, Texas, Curator: Benito Huerta (catalogue)
Casket Factory, Rudolph Projects|ArtScan Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2004Texas Paint, Part One: More True Stories, Arlington Museum of Art, Curator: Anne Allen
Reality Bytes, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Bodacious Bods, Mighty Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
100 Drawings, University of Dallas-Haggerty Art Center Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Spring Gallery Night Exhibition, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth CAC Biennial 2004, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2003Reconfigured, Fort Worth Community Art Center, Curator: John Frost
Be Still, University of Dallas-Haggerty Art Center Gallery, Dallas, Texas
The 39 Hour Show, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
See, Not Be Seen, Wreck Room, Fort Worth, Texas
Human Blend, M.J. Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
2002The Yellow Line, The Art Corridor II, Tarrant County College, Arlington, Texas
Eight: Paint and Clay, VSU Gallery, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia
Surface: Works on Walls, The Art Corridor II, Tarrant County College, Arlington, Texas
2001Creative Itch, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas
Action Heroes, The Art Center, Waco, Texas, Curator: Janet Tyson (catalogue)
2000 Art Academy Faculty Show, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
Toys & Puzzles, Richland College Lago Vista Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1999 Critics Pix, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas
The Gallery Night Exhibition 1999, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas
Gallery Night 1999, Cynthia Hull Studio Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
Real Art, Contemporary Art Center of Fort Worth, Curators: Terri Cummings, Jo-Ann Mulroy, Steven Watson (catalogue)
199813 Hours, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Print Perspectives, The Barth Galleries, Columbus, Ohio
1997Paperwork, Fort Worth Arts Council, Curator: Jo-Ann Mulroy
1996 The Gallery Night Exhibition II, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas
Ten plus One: Ten Printmakers and One Painter, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas, Curator: Wade Wilson
Ten Texas Printmakers, Rancho Valmora School Art Gallery, Valmora, New Mexico
Gala Opening, Thompson Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
1995 Ten Texas Printmakers, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, Maryland
The Gallery Night Exhibition, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, Texas
Celebración, Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas
Body & Soul, Forest Park Art Space, Fort Worth, Texas
1994First Show, Forest Park Art Space, Fort Worth, Texas
1992 Printmaking in Texas: The 1980’s, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas (organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth)
500 X-Mas Show, 500 X Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1991 Members Invite, 500 X Gallery
1990Forty Texas Printmakers,Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (catalogue)
Gallery Night 1990, Fort Worth Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
Four Contemporary Views of Painting, The Valdosta State Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta, Georgia
a Mark: A Drawing Exhibition, University of Dallas-Haggerty Art Center Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1988Toys By Artists, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, Texas
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2015 Artspace111 2nd Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, Artspace111, Fort Worth, Texas, Juror: Vernon Fisher
2014Artspace111 Regional Juried Exhibition, Artspace111, Fort Worth, Texas, Jurors: Andrea Karnes and Ron Tyler
Art in the Metroplex, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas, Juror: Sara-Jane Parsons
2011 Cube Foot, East Fork Gallery, Tarrant County College Northwest Campus, Fort Worth, Texas, Juror: Heyd Fontenot (award)
2011 VAST 43rd Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas, Juror: Benito Huerta (award)
2010 The Hunting Art Prize, Houston, Texas, Jurors: Sarah Cash, Rita Aida Gonzalez, Lorelei Stewart
VAST 42nd Annual Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas, Juror: Melissa Miller (John and Geri Aschenbrenner merit award, Createx Colors Award) (catalog)
2010 TX/OK Art Prize, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, Texas, Juror: Janis Goodman (Best Texas Artist award)
2009 New American Paintings 2009 Western Edition, Open Press, exhibition in print. Juror: Terrie Sultan, Executive Director, The Parrish Art Museum
Fifth Annual National Drawing, Painting and Printmaking Competition, PBCC Central Campus Gallery, Lake Worth, Florida, Juror: Marisca Pascucci
The Hunting Art Prize, Houston, Texas, Jurors: Kate Green, Chiyo Ishikawa, Suzanne Folds McCullagh
Emerging Artists 2009, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY, Juror: Limner Gallery
Art 2009: National Juried Competition, Highlands Museum of the Arts, Sebring, FL, Juror: Ken Rollins
2008 New American Paintings 2008 Western Edition, Open Press, exhibition in print. Juror: Andrea Karnes
2003 Art in the Metroplex, University Art Gallery, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, Juror: Diane Karp
2001 Expo, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Juror: Charlie Wylie (cash award)
1994 Ninth Annual December Competition, Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas, Juror: Patrick McCracken (honorable mention)
1993 Works on Paper V, VSU Gallery, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, Juror: Larry Walker (honorable mention)
3rd Annual International Mini Print Exhibition, Juniper Gallery, Napa, California, Jurors: John Ihle, Shane Weare (special merit award)
1990 First Annual International Mini Print Exhibition, Juniper Gallery, Napa Art Center, Napa, California, Jurors: Barbara Parson, Peter Frank
The Sixth Annual Statewide December Competition, Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas
1989 Ten County Art Exhibition and Literary Competition, Tarrant County Junior College, Fort Worth, Texas, Juror: Paul Harris
1988 Main Street ’88, Knights of Pythius Building, Fort Worth, Texas, Juror: Henry Hopkins
1987 Texas Realism, Atrium Gallery, Moody Hall, Austin, Texas, Juror: Betty Moody (touring citation)
Main Street ’87, Knights of Pythias Building, Fort Worth, Texas, Jurors: Mark Thistlethwaite, Bill Runyon, Pat Woodson (people’s choice award)
INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2017 Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2016 Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center (featured artist)
2015 Place and Identity, DeadWEST Gallery, Lakeside, Texas
The Real Show, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas, Curator: Patrick Kelly
National Contemporary Realism 2015, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2014 Mac@20 Part II, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
National Contemporary Realism 2014, M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2013Suitable Subjects, Contemporary Still Lives, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, Curator: Judy Deaton
2012 Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
An Affair of the Art, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, Curator: Christopher Hightower
2010 AC-X: Ten Years in the Art Corridor, Tarrant County College Southeast Campus, Arlington, Texas, Curator: Christopher Blay
Manufactured Scale, Tarrant County College Northwest Campus, Fort Worth, Texas, Curator: Winter Rusiloski
2009 Evidence, Rudolph Projects|Artscan Gallery, Houston, Texas
New American Paintings 15th Anniversary Issue, Open Press, exhibition in print.
September Exhibit, Andrew Art Museum, Andrews, North Carolina
Trinity Perspectives: Views of an Urban River, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
Texas Twelve: The 2nd Biennial Survey of Texas Art and Artists, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Wichita Falls, Texas, Curators: Cohn Drennan, Danny Bills
2008 Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
Experiencing Perspectives, Daimler Financial Services, Fort Worth, Texas, Curator: Leila Matta (catalog)
2007 Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2006Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center
2005 Preservation is the Art of the City, The Gallery at the Fort Worth Central Library, Juror: Dr. Malcom Warner, Senior Curator, Kimbell Art Museum (Murrin Family Award in memory of Lia Cuilty)
2004 Preservation is the Art of the City, The Gallery at the Fort Worth Central Library
Paño Art Invitational, El Centro Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Curator: Iris Bechtol
2003 Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Art Center
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Edison State College, Piqua, Ohio
Private collections in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Gaile Robinson, “Legends of the Fall,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “StarTime,” September 9, 2005, 32
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Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, “These walls can talk,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, June 29, 2002
“MacMurray gallery features Texan’s art,” Star Trader, January 31, 2002, 5
“Seeing the light,” Journal-Courier, January 31, 2002, 13
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“Open your eyes,” FWWeekly, June 10-17, 1999, 20
Wade Wilson, “Geometry as you never learned it in school,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 16, 1995, F5
Ruth Speelman, “Piqua artist John Hartley opens Fort Worth studio,” Miami Valley Sunday News, June 10, 1990, 25
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
2010 to present Associate Professor, tenured, Tarrant County College Northwest Campus
1995 to present Director, Gallery 414 (www.gallery414.org)
2004 to 2010 Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
1988 to 1995 owner/operator, Gallery Services