Harmony Hammond is an artist, writer, and curator. A leading figure in the development of the feminist art movement in New York in the early 1970s, she was a co-founder of A.I.R. (1972)—the first feminist cooperative art gallery in New York—and of Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics (1976). Since 1984, Hammond has lived and worked in Northern New Mexico, teaching at the University of Arizona in Tucson from 1989 through 2006. Her earliest feminist work combined gender politics with Post-Minimal concerns of materials and process, frequently occupying a space between painting and sculpture - a focus that continues to this day as she bring social and political content into formal abstraction.

A retrospective of Hammond’s work, Material Witness, Five Decades of Art, was presented in 2019 at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, and traveled to the Sarasota Art Museum in Florida in 2020. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including, Becoming/Unbecoming Monochrome, RedLine, Denver, CO (2014); Big Paintings 2002–2005, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM (2005); Monster Prints, SITE SANTA FE, NM (2002); and Ten Years 1970–1980, Glen Hanson Gallery and W.A.R.M, Minneapolis, MN (1981). Significant group exhibitions include Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction (2023), organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Making Their Mark, originating atShah Garg Foundation, New York, NY (2023); Women in Abstraction, which originated at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021) and WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution, which originated at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2007).

Hammond’s work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, among others. She is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including the Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2014); the Lifetime Achievement Award, Women’s Caucus for Art (2014); the Distinguished Feminist Award, College Art Association (2013); and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1991). Hammond’s book Wrappings: Essays on Feminism, Art and the Martial Arts (1984) is a foundational publication on feminist art, and her groundbreaking Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History (2000) received a Lambda Literary Award and remains the primary text on the subject. Her archive is housed at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, CA.