Pat Hearn (1955 – 2000) was an American art dealer, who ran Pat Hearn Gallery in New York City from 1983 until 2000. Hearn founded the

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with American art dealer Colin De Land, Matthew Marks, and Paul Morris in 1994.

Art gallery

Hearn championed the work of artists like

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, Milan Kunc,

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, Monique Prieto, Gretchen Faust Jeff Elrod,

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, Renee Green, Lincoln Tobier, Ted Byfield, Pat de Groot, Simon Leung,

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, Jimmy De Sana,

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, and

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. In 1985,

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cast Hearn as a naked muse, plastering her in white body paint and high-contrast lipstick for a

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shoot in preparation for an iconic silkscreen portrait. In 1987, Hearn posed for

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as part of is series called ''Art World''.

''Armory Show''

In 1994, the Gramercy International Art Fair, now called the Armory Show, made its debut in the rooms and hallways of New York's

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. At the time, the Fair was an alternative to the more polished and established fairs like

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and Art Chicago (now Expo Chicago). Four dealers and gallerists, Pat Hearn, Colin de Land, Matthew Marks and Paul Morris, worked together to bring in a younger generation of downtown artists who were working through the

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that plagued the 1980s. A number of seminal contemporary artworks and performances debuted at the fair including Mark Dion's ''Lemonade Stand'' (1996), Andrea Fraser’s ''Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk'' (1989), ''May I Help You'' (1991), and Renée Green’s ''The Pigskin Library'' (1990).

Collection

Hearn died in August 2000, aged 45, of

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while on vacation in

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. The American Fine Arts Co. and Pat Hearn Gallery collections were acquired by The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (Bard CCS), in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. In 2018 Bard CCS organized the show "The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983–2004)" at Hessel Museum of Art on "the shared histories, art, and programming activities of Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co., Colin de Land Fine Art" and published a book of the same title (Dancing Foxes Press, 2018).

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