John Harne

John Harne was born in 1956 with the artist spending most of his teenage years in Maine. He has kept studios in Western Maryland, New York City, Atlanta, Georgia and currently in Homosassa, Florida, a rural area on the gulf coast of Florida.

Harne never had a significant mentor in art although he briefly met Ralston Crawford as a teen and independently studied watercolor, egg tempera and oil painting and life drawing for several years before launching his art career as a photo-realist painter. The Bienville Gallery in New Orleans gave him his first exhibition at age 19 in 1977. By the early 1980’s he was exhibiting in WDC, Baltimore and New York and his work had shifted to a surreal narrative style focused on mythology and allegory. Attracted to the East Village art scene he moved to NYC in 1984 and exhibited in numerous galleries there. Nearly a decade later he moved to Atlanta, Georgia, renting an artist’s loft at the King Plow Art Center.

While he continued to paint and exhibit, his creative efforts were pulled in many directions for over thirty years. Eventually Harne developed his current style and rediscovered his attraction to realism with watercolor and oil painting. When not in his studio, he loves to travel to remote an...

No Fine Art Degree
University of Maryland - Design
Visiting Artist - Lecturer - Maryland Institute College of Art,
Visiting Artist - Lecturer -Hood College, Frederick, MD

Solo Exhibitions
1993 Gallery K, Washington, DC
1993 Alain Mikli, New York, NY
1992 Gallery K, Washington, DC
1988 Gallery K, Washington, DC
1986 Gallery K, Washington, DC
1984 Hardart Gallery, Washington, DC
1983 Washington County Museum of Fine Art, MD
1982 Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1977 Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Selected Group Exhibitions
1993 Benton Gallery, The Art of Protest, Southhampton, NY
1989 Touchstone Gallery, Talking Pictures: Six Narrative Artists, WDC
1988 Fifi Oscard Agency, Imagism, NYC
1987 Todd Capp Gallery, Animals, NYC
1985 White Columns, Drawn and Quartered, NYC
1985 Maryland Art Place, Seeing, Thinking, Feeling, Baltimore MD
1985 Gallery K, Neo-Primitivism, Washington, DC
1985 Limbo Lounge Gallery, Harne & Friends, NYC
1984 Civilian Warfare Gallery, Sculptures from the USA, NYC
1984 Totem Plow, sculpture installation, City of Baltimore MD
1984 Greathouse Gallery, Gris-Gris Chair, NYC
1984 WPA Gallery, Content/Discontent, Washington, DC
1984 MAP, Six Visions From Western Maryland, Baltimore MD
1983 Phoenix II Gallery, Small Works, Washington, DC
1983 The Ritz, WPA/Colab NYC joint project, Washington DC
1982 Phoenix II Gallery, 10 Emerging Artists, Washington, DC
1980 Bienville Gallery, Self...