Pat Hearn

Hearn founded the Armory Show with American art dealer Colin De Land, Matthew Marks, and Paul Morris in 1994.

[1] Hearn championed the work of artists like Philip Taaffe, Milan Kunc, Peter Schuyff, Jutta Koether, Monique Prieto, Gretchen Faust Jeff Elrod, Susan Hiller, Renee Green, Lincoln Tobier, Ted Byfield, Pat de Groot,[2] Simon Leung, George Condo, Jack Pierson, Mark Morrisroe, Jimmy De Sana, Mary Heilmann, Joan Jonas, Lutz Bacher, Eva Hesse, and Ana Mendieta.

[3] In 1985, Andy Warhol cast Hearn as a naked muse, plastering her in white body paint and high-contrast lipstick for a Polaroid shoot in preparation for an iconic silkscreen portrait.

[4][5] In 1987, Hearn posed for Timothy Greenfield-Sanders as part of is series called Art World.

[8] 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).