Jennifer Bartlett (1941-2022) was born in Long Beach, CA and studied at Mills College, Oakland, CA and the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. Her work is featured in the collections of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Dallas Museum of Art, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Tate, London; Naoshima Museum, Japan; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among many others. The first major museum survey exhibition of Bartlett’s work was organized in 1985 – it travelled from Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN to Brooklyn Museum, NY and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. Bartlett’s first institutional solo exhibition in the UK took place at Tate in 1982. In 2006, her early enamelled steel plate paintings were surveyed at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA. In 2013 and 2014, a second survey of Bartlett’s work—Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe, curated by Klaus Ottmann – travelled to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA and Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY.