Maren Hassinger

**Maren Hassinger** (o suuna yuli nyɛ **Maren Louise Jenkins** ka bɛ daa dɔɣi o yuuni 1947) nyɛla African-American nuchee ni baŋda. 

## Educator
Bin din gbaai yuuni 1997 zaŋ hali ni yuuni 2017, o daa nyɛla Darata zaŋ n-ti Rinehart School of Sculpture din be Maryland Institute College of Art. Hassinger  daa nyɛla adjunct professor n-ti Stony Brook University yuma anu.

## Tumanima
* *Twelve Trees #2*, Mulholland Drive off-ramp, San Diego Freeway, northbound, Los Angeles, CA, 1979
*Leaning, 1980
**On Dangerous Ground*, 1981
**[http://bombmagazine.org/article/0829120/maren-hassinger Pink Trash] *, Lynwood, CA, 1982
* *Necklace of Trees*, Atlanta Festival for the Arts, Atlanta, GA, 1985-85
* Bushes at Socrates Sculpture Park, Socrates Sculpture Park, Astoria, Queens, NY, 1988 
* Plaza Planters and Tree Grates, Commissions for Downtown Seattle Transit Project, Seattle, WA, 1986–90
*Field, Nasher Sculpture Center, 1989
* Tall Grasses, Roosevelt Island, New York, NY, 1989-90
* Circle of Bushes, for C. W. Post, Long Island University, Brookville, NY, 1991
* *Cloud Room*, Commission for the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport, Pittsburgh, PA, 1992
* *Evening Shadows*, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA, 1993
* *Window Boxes,* Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, NY, 1993
* *Fence of Leaves,* P.S. 8, NY, 1995
* *Ancestor Walk*, Commission for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, 1996
* *Art in the Garden,* Grant Park, Chicago, IL, 2004-5
**Tree of Knowledge*, 2019

## Collections
Hassinger tumanima nyɛla din be "permanent collections" zaŋ n-ti Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, Baltimore, MD; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

## Awards and honors
* Lifetime Achievement Award daa yina Women’s Caucus for Art, Maryland Institute College of Art (2009)
*Grants, Joan Mitchell Foundation (1996)
*Anonymous Was a Woman Award (1997)
*Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2007)

## Selected solo exhibitions
Maren Hassinger's tuma nyɛla din be "solo exhibitions" din doli na ŋɔ ni:
*Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR, *Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi* (publication) (2024)
* Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL. *Maren Hassinger: This Is How We Grow* (2023-2024)
* Oklahoma Contemporary Nature, Sweet Nature 2021
* The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY., *Maren Hassinger: Monuments*, (2018-2019). Site specific works that are located in Marcus Garvey Park.
* Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA *Maren Hassinger: A Retrospective* (2015)
* Reginald Ingraham Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA *Maren Hassinger* (2014)
* Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA *Maren Hassinger . . . Dreaming* (2013)
* Schmucker Gallery, Gettysburg, PA, USA *Maren Hassinger: Lives* (2010)
* Contemporary Arts Forum and Alice Keck Park, Santa Barbara, CA., *Blanket of Branches* and *Dancing Branches*, (1986)
* Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA., *Gallery Six: Maren Hassinger*, (1981)
* Just Above Midtown/Downtown Gallery, New York, NY., *Beach*, (1980)

## Selected group exhibitions
Selected group exhibitions nyɛ din doli na ŋɔ:
* Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, *We Wanted A Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85* (2017)
* Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas, USA *Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art* (2012)
* Havana Biennial, *Cinema Remixed and Reloaded 2.0*,  (2012)
* Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA *Now Dig This!: Art of Black Los Angeles 1960 –1980* (2011)
* Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA., *Dance/Draw*,  (2011)
* Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA *Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists* (2011)
* The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY., *VideoStudio: Playback*,  (2011)
* Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD., *Material Girls*, (2011)
* Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, *Global Africa Project, * (2010)
* The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY., *30 Seconds off an Inch*, (2009)

## Kundivihira

## External links
* Maren Hassinger - Portfolio, Official site