Curriculum Vitae

Personal

Born: Jackson, Mississippi
Date: October 7, 1940
Died: New Orleans, Louisiana
Date: March 13, 2002

Education

1970

Master's Degree (M.A.), Louisiana State University, College of Art and Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA (painting)

1964-1965

Louisiana State University, Department of Art, Baton Rouge, LA (fine studio arts)

1963-1964

Fisher Institute of Philadelphia (life classes)

1963

Hebraic University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem (summer program in field archeology)

1960-1963

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (art history)

1960

University of Vienna, Austria (summer program)

In addition, J.B. Harter attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA (South Asian studies, post-graduate school), and Hanover College in Hanover, IN.

Career

1986-1991

Curator of Collections, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA

1974-1986

Assistant Curator of Visual Arts, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA

1974

Assistant Curator of Paintings, The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA

1967-1974

Library Assistant, Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA

Exhibitions (Selected Group and Solo Shows)

2009

HERE Arts Center, New York, NY

2007

Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY

2006

Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY

2005

Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
Louisville Visual Arts Center, Louisville, KY
Studios Plat du Jour, Paris, France
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

2004

Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY
University of Southern Mississippi Museum, Hattiesburg, MS
Nicholls State University, Thibodeaux, LA

2003

Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY

2002

Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY

2001

Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY

2000

Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY
Louisiana State University Museum, Baton Rouge, LA

1999

Louisiana State University Museum, Baton Rouge, LA

1998

Lesbian & Gay Community Center, New Orleans, LA

1986

Arts Council of New Orleans, Gallier Hall, New Orleans, LA

1969

Episcopal Student Center, Louisiana State University Campus, Baton Rouge, LA (thesis project)

Collections

• The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA
• Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA
• New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

Bibliography

• Peter Weiermair's Treasures of Gay Art (Innsbruck, Austria: All Saints Press, 2008)
• David S. Rubin's The Culture of Queer: A Tribute to J.B. Harter (New Orleans, LA: Contemporary Arts Center, 2005)
• Classicism Subverted, Gay Art in the XXI Century, essays by Edward Lucie- Smith and Ara H. Merjian (Paris, France: Studios Plat du Jour, 2005)
• The Drawings of J.B. Harter by J.B. Harter, edited by Charles W. Leslie (New Orleans, LA: The John Burton Harter Charitable Trust, and New York, NY: The Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, 2003)
• Bob Creps's Biographical Encyclopedia of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers of the U.S., Colonial to 2002 (Vol. 1) (Land O' Lakes, FL: Dealers Choice Books, Inc., 2002)
• David Leddick's Male Nude Now: New Visions of the 21st Century (New York, NY: Universe Pub., 2001)
• Encounters With the Nude Male, Paintings and Drawings by J.B. Harter by J.B. Harter (Swaffham, United Kingdom: GMP Publishers Ltd., 1997)