{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Short description|Belgian painter and sculptor (born 1980)}} {{Infobox person | name = Harold Ancart | other_names = | occupation = Painter, sculptor | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1980}} | education = {{plainlist| * La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium }} }} '''Harold Ancart''' (born 1980)<ref name="David Zwirner">{{cite web |url=https://d6jcg90g7mpvu.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/harold_ancart_cv_2019_2.pdf |title=David Zwirner – Harold Ancart biography |accessdate=29 May 2019 |df= }}</ref> is a Belgian painter and sculptor.<ref name="Artnet">{{cite web |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/harold-ancart-david-zwirner-1344881 |title=Artnet Article September 2018 – "How the Self-Deprecating Belgian Painter Harold Ancart Charmed the Art World" |accessdate=29 January 2019 |df= }}</ref> He currently lives and works in New York City.<ref name="David Zwirner"/>
==Education== Harold Ancart studied at La Cambre in Brussels, Belgium where he received a M.F.A in 2007.<ref name="David Zwirner"/>
==Major works==
==="Untitled (the great night)" – Painting the night – Group Show at Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2018)=== Harold Ancart created a 15 by 44 feet site-specific painting<ref name="Mutual Art">{{cite web |url=https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Harold-Ancart--Untitled--the-great-night/04E366735884BCF3 |title=Mutual Art – Harold Ancart: Untitled (the great night) |accessdate=9 April 2019 |df= }}</ref> for the Shigeru Ban designed front window of the Centre Pompidou-Metz during the group show "Painting the Night" that was shown from October 13, 2018, to April 15, 2019.<ref name="David Zwirner - Painting the night">{{cite web |url=https://www.davidzwirner.com/news/harold-ancart-painting-night |title=David Zwirner – Harold Ancart in Painting the Night |accessdate=9 April 2019 |df= }}</ref>
==="Subliminal Standard" – Public Art Fund project in Brooklyn, New York (2019)=== He painted a freestanding, 16-foot-high concrete sculpture paying tribute to handball courts in Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn with the support of Public Art Fund that will be on view from May 1, 2019 to March 1, 2020.<ref name="Time Out New York">{{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/throw-a-ball-at-a-piece-of-art-with-this-new-brooklyn-handball-court-013119 |title=Time Out New York |accessdate=9 April 2019 |df= }}</ref>
==Collections== Harold Ancart's work is held in the following public collections:<ref name="David Zwirner"/> *Whitney Museum of American Art, New York *Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York *Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles *Beyeler Foundation, Basel<ref name="Beyeler Foundation - Harold Ancart">{{cite web |url=https://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/collection/work/detail/379-untitled/ |title=Beyeler Foundation – Harold Ancart |accessdate=29 January 2019 |df= }}</ref> *Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris<ref name="Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - Harold Ancart">{{cite web |url=http://www.mam.paris.fr/fr/collections-en-ligne#/artwork/180000000166129?layout=grid&page=0&filters=authors:ANCART+Harold↹ANCART+Harold |title=Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris – Harold Ancart |accessdate=29 January 2019 |df= }}</ref> *National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa *Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris *Menil Collection, Houston<ref name="Menil Collection - Harold Ancart">{{cite web |url=https://www.menil.org/collection/objects/35031-untitled-there-is-no-there-there |title=Menil Collection – Harold Ancart |accessdate=29 January 2019 |df= }}</ref> *Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC<ref name="Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - Harold Ancart">{{cite web |url=https://hirshhorn.si.edu/search-results/search-result-details/?edan_search_value=hmsg_16.6 |title=Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden |accessdate=29 January 2019 |df= }}</ref> *Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles<ref name="Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles - Harold Ancart">{{cite web |url=https://www.moca.org/collection/work/untitled-688 |title=Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |accessdate=29 January 2019 |df= }}</ref> *Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo *Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen *Lenbachhaus, Munich *Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent *K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong *Yuz Museum Shanghai, Shanghai *Rubell Museum, Miami
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://news.artnet.com/art-world/harold-ancart-david-zwirner-1344881 "How the Self-Deprecating Belgian Painter Harold Ancart Charmed the Art World"] Article by Artnet, September 2018 * [https://www.wsj.com/articles/meet-the-art-worlds-rising-stars-11560690002 "Meet the Art World’s Rising Stars"] Article by WSJ, June 2019 * [https://www.culturedmag.com/harold-ancart/ "Back and forth with artist Harold Ancart"] Article by Cultured Magazine, April 2019 * [https://www.vogue.com/article/art-becoming-intimate-personal-small-paintings "How Small-Scale Paintings Became the Art World's Big New Trend"] Article by Vogue, August 2016 * [https://www.artforum.com/picks/harold-ancart-52968 "Harold Ancart – Artforum"] Review by Artforum, 2015 * [https://frieze.com/article/harold-ancart "Harold Ancart – Frieze"] Review by Frieze, 2015
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