Jane Hart (artist)
Jane Hart (born 1958) is an American curator, gallerist, and artist in New York City. She has worked as an art curator since 1993, having been a gallery owner at in Los Angeles and Miami, and a contemporary art professional in Manhattan and London. As an artist (working under the alias TJ Ahearn), she has exhibited internationally, with solo exhibitions in South Florida and Cleveland, Ohio. Her specialty is contemporary collage, with works in private collections in the United States and abroad. Early life and education Jane Hart was born in White Plains, New York. At the age of 18, Hart enrolled in the Academy Psychopolis in the Netherlands, where she studied in 1976. She returned to the United States the following year, where she obtained her associate degree from Miami-Dade College in Miami, Florida. In 1978, Hart began attending the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she pursued her bachelor's degree until 1979. She continued her studies towards a BFA in 1980, at the University of Miami. Professional career 1980–1990: Miami, New York, and London Hart began her art career first as a gallery director, at the Moos Gallery in Miami, where she worked in that capacity