Statement: Heart and Soul
    I am a story teller.  The story is yours and mine.  The theme is ours.  The specifics are mine.  It is about life and it is told in fragments and with pictures.  It is honest.  some of it may be true.
    My art work is about life as it occurs through human intellect, experience, and the disquietude of the soul.  doning the work is how i try to understand the complexity of the one life I know I have.  The images develop through the explorations of themes that merge from my need to ask sho, shere, how, and why questions.  The qestions are timeless but the uniquesness of each of our lives presents the possibility of personal insight.  my work is a search for insight and understanding.
    My art work is an exploration of visual language, a consideration of how a visual dialogue conveys meaning through formal and narrative elements.  It is the symbolic use of setting, time and character aesthetically gathered to create content and beauty.  It is an inquiry into the merger of traditional and contemporary visual voices in an attempt to expand expression.  It is a search for the visual equivalent of the narrative poem.

Education: M.F.A. 1972 from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois
                   M.A. 1970 from West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia
                   B.A.  1969 from South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota
                   1964-66  University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming

Employment (teaching): 1972 to present, Drawing, Printmaking, Painting at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
                                        1988-89, 1986-87, and 1974-77, Chair of the Department of Art

Artist Residencies: 1994-St. John's college, Santa Fe, NM; 1993-Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY; 1988-William Allen White, Rocky Mountain National Park, US Department of Interior, Estes Park, CO; 1987-Resort to Art, Vail, CO; 1986-1985- Wyoming Council for the Arts, Northwest Community College, Powell, Wyoming

Exhibitions: Martin Garhart's art work has been exhibited nationally and is in numerous public and private collections. A
selected list of recent solo exhibitions includes 1997: Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Flanders Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; 1996: West Virginia University; Casa D'Art, Shreveport, LA; 1995: Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland, OH; Herr-Chamblis Gallery, Hot Springs, AR; 1994: Olin Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH; 1993: Butler Institute of America Art, Salem, OH; 1991: St. John's college, Santa Fe, NM; 1990: Sioux Falls Civic Arts Center, Sioux Falls, SD; Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT.  A selected list of recent group shows includes 2000: 32nd Annual Invitational, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT; Invitational, Florida State University; Faculty Show, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH; 1999: Invitational "Artists of Ucross", University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Laramie, WY; Flanders Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, Parkside, WI; 1998: Two Person Show, Wabash College, Crawforsville, IN; Faculty Show, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH; Flanders Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.

Collections: A selected list of collections includes British Museum, London, England; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO; Wittenburg University, Springfield, OH; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, racine, WI

(biographical information last updated on May 2, 2000)