Jacob Hartman lives and works in New York. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and received his MFA from Bard College in New York. His installations, video work, sculpture and paintings have been shown nationally, with recent exhibitions at the TBA 2008 Festival for the Portland Intstitute of Contemporary Art (OR), CRG Gallery (NY), Drew College (NJ), The Living Room (Art Basel, Miami Beach), and New Langton Arts (CA). His work was included in Rapper’s Delight at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (CA) and SUPERNATURAL at PICA (OR). Hartman’s work has been written about on Artforum.com, and in the New Art Examiner. His performance work was featured in the 1999 catalogue for Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (CA) in 1999. He has been a resident at Skowehegan School of Art and was the winner of the Bay Area Awards in 2000 for a performance at New Langton Arts.