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Light Leaks Let the Angels In


Tuscon, Arizona 2022


Photography by Grace Hartnett 


 


Production Design for Vogue Magazine x Kacey Musgraves 


Director: Bardia Zeinali


Creative Director: Emily Rosser 
Fashion Editor: Jorden Bickham
Director of Photography: Kelly Jeffrey 


Movement Director: Celia Rowlson Hall 


Production Design for Vogue Magazine x Kacey Musgraves 


Director: Bardia Zeinali


Creative Director: Emily Rosser 
Fashion Editor: Jorden Bickham
Director of Photography: Kelly Jeffrey 


Movement Director: Celia Rowlson Hall 


Cometeer Coffee— Brand Launch with B&W Roasters on location 


Art Direction: Grace Hartnett 


Creative Direction: Morgan Young


Photography: Mark Sommerfeld 


Set Design: Grace Hartnett 


Home of Classics campaign shot by Daniel Arnold for adidas Orignals.
Johannes Leonardo 2019


Set Design for a short film, Adaptation


Premiered at LAX ART summer 2022, NYFF October 2022


Adaptation // 2019-2022 /// 16mm Film Director: Josh Kline


Producers: Jill Ferraro + Eliza Ryan


Director of Photography: Kelly Jeffrey


Visual Effects Supervisor: Andrew Lim


Original Soundtrack: Galcher Lustwerk


Production Design: Elysia Belilove


Set Design: Grace Hartnett


Costume Design: Emily Schubert


Sound Design: Jared Arnold 


 


Commissioned Photographs for Rizzoli Editors:


Meaghan McGovern and Ian Luna


 


Installations in order of appearance,


art direction + set build + photographed 


by Grace Hartnett


Sculpture for SSAW Magazine, 2019 


Interactive Installation for Document Journal, 2019 


Production Design for film, Into a Space of Love, 2018


 Installation for Beaufille, New York Fashion Week AW17


Set Build for Vogue Spain, 2018


Installation for Nanushka, New York Fashion Week SS18


 


 


Natural Perception—Short film in development


“How we perceive the world, and yourself too, is in the end connected. When your perception of the world changes—your own way of thinking and what you are—the world within yourself is also updated.” – Hosai Matusbayashi.




Director: Grace Hartnett




Story Editors: Jill Ferarro + Grace Hartnett


Produced by Paradise Productions


Vogue Germany, Prada Special SS19


Set Design: Grace Hartnett


Photography: Julia Noni


Haus of Love for Dazed Magazine 2019


“Founded on the trailblazing legacy of New York’s legendary ballroom scene, Haus of Us a radical new vogueing house for the city’s youth. Named after the iconic House of LaBeija – immortalised in the seminal queer film Paris is Burning” 


 


Set Design: Grace Hartnett


Photographer: Sam Nixon


Stylist: Alison Marie Isbell


Text: Miss Rosen


Set Design: Grace Hartnett


Waterford Crystal Holiday—Photography: Adrien Mesko


Moda Operandi Holiday Campaign 2019—Photography: Metz + Racine


Piaule —Photography: Kelly Jeffrey


Yukizna—Photography: Geoffrey Knot


 


SS20 Dion Lee Campaign




Set Design: Grace Hartnett


Photography: Zhi Wei


Art Direction: Alex Robertson Dunlop


Vogue Gift Guide 2018




Director: Andrew B. Myers
DP: Ivan Abel
Set Designer: Grace Hartnett
Titles: Rebecca Cianfrini
Color: Alexia Salingaros
Senior Visual Editor: Liana Blum
Associate Visual Editor: Gal Miriam Amit
Designer: Durrant Santeng


Vogue Gift Guide 2018




Director: Andrew B. Myers
DP: Ivan Abel
Set Designer: Grace Hartnett
Titles: Rebecca Cianfrini
Color: Alexia Salingaros
Senior Visual Editor: Liana Blum
Associate Visual Editor: Gal Miriam Amit
Designer: Durrant Santeng


MAC Makeup Holiday Campaign 2019




Set Design: Grace Hartnett




Director: Bobby Doherty


Creative Director: Ruben Ramos 


 


SS20 Calvin Klein




Set Design: Grace Hartnett




Photographer: Andrew Vowles


Set Design: Grace Hartnett


Prose—Photography: Benjamin Vigliotta


Departures Magazine—Photography: Maxime Poiblanc


Hodinkee —Photography: Ryan Jenq


David Yurman—Photography: Geordy Wood


Ply Knits—Photography: Robin Stein


Art Direction: Ania et Lucie


Gray Matters Paris + NYC AW18


Commissioned installation design and execution of the build for shoe designer, Gray Matters. Construction of the installations took place in Brooklyn, NY and were adapted to show during Paris Market Week in June 2018. Inspired by the post-modern Memphis Design Group; we created a playground of eccentric elements and colors. 


Locations: 67 West St Brooklyn, NY + 132 Rue du Temple Paris, France


Photography: Grace Hartnett


Thin Series Collection




Creative Direction + Set Design: Elysia Belilove + Grace Hartnett


Photography: Kelly Jeffrey


Nicotine Likes, 2019


Creative Direction + Set Design: Grace Hartnett


Photography: Robin Stein


Using synthetic material in contrast to the human form. Foam, unnatural and unsustainable, is elevated from waste to interlace natural and human made, creating a womb like and otherworldly space.




Creative Direction + Set Design: Grace Hartnett + Elysia Belilove


Photography: Kelly Jeffrey 


Vaquera SS20, Dover Street Market New York




Installation Design + Photography: Grace Hartnett


Set Design: Grace Hartnett




Photographer: Zhi Wei


 


Document Journal, 2018




Fashion Editor: Shawn Lakin


 


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SSAW Magazine, AW19


Styling: Matt Holmes


Document Journal, 2019


Photographer: Sam Nixon


Set Design: Grace Hartnett


Fashion Editor: Shawn Lakin


Production: Jill Ferraro


 Paradise Productions


WSJ Magazine, Market Report SS 2019


 


Set Design: Grace Hartnett


Photography: Sebastian Lager


Photo Editor: Noelle Lacombe






A film made during the annual Good Guys Car Show
in Alameda County.


“You spoke a certain language when you were around cars … like music, how it transcends, making everybody on the same playing field. Car culture does that for us.” -Uncle Bobby.


Read story here: De Guzman


Film Directors: Grace Hartnett + Jill Ferraro
Photographer & Cinematographer : Kelly Jeffrey
Creative Director: Dominick Barcelona




Production: Brian Miller, Camera Assistant: Luke Nairn, Film Editor: Marlo Caine, Assistant Editor: Quincey Kai with Cosmo Street Editorial, Film Colorist: Kathleen Dycaico, Original Score & Sound Design: Andrew Miller, Titles and Graphic Design: Shannon Jager, Text: David Eardley & Dominick Barcelona, Photo Retoucher: Gregory Wikstrom, and Cast: Uncle Bobby, Uncle Joe, Uncle Fred, Will De Guzman & Ruvi De Guzman 


A film made during the annual Good Guys Car Show
in Alameda County.


“You spoke a certain language when you were around cars … like music, how it transcends, making everybody on the same playing field. Car culture does that for us.” -Uncle Bobby.


Read story here: De Guzman


Film Directors: Grace Hartnett + Jill Ferraro
Photographer & Cinematographer : Kelly Jeffrey
Creative Director: Dominick Barcelona




Production: Brian Miller, Camera Assistant: Luke Nairn, Film Editor: Marlo Caine, Assistant Editor: Quincey Kai with Cosmo Street Editorial, Film Colorist: Kathleen Dycaico, Original Score & Sound Design: Andrew Miller, Titles and Graphic Design: Shannon Jager, Text: David Eardley & Dominick Barcelona, Photo Retoucher: Gregory Wikstrom, and Cast: Uncle Bobby, Uncle Joe, Uncle Fred, Will De Guzman & Ruvi De Guzman 


The Enigma of a Dream, 2021— directed and wrote a short film where the dream state is used to guide and illuminate the unknown and undiscovered aspects of our mind. The inspiration came from exploring the works of Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Carl Jung and Indian spiritual teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Virtual release on May 5, 2021— Nowness. Screened October 1-10, 2021 at Photography 212 Istanbul in the Yeldeğirmeni Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey. 


 


“By shedding light into the unknown, we can shift toward a full union of the individual mind with the universe around us.”


 










 


Director: Grace Hartnett


Production: Jill Ferraro
Paradise Productions


Director of Photography: Kelly Jeffrey


Set Design: Grace Hartnett + Elysia Belilove


Editor: Matthew C Levy


Sound Design + Original Score: Arp (Alexis Georgopoulos) 


Title Design + Animation: Caroline Newton


Colorist: Kathleen Dycaico


Assistant Camera: Sachi Bahra 


Production Assistant + Talent: Maria Fleischman


Voice Over 1: Uche Adegbite  Voice Over 2…Maharishi Mahesh Yogi  Voice Over 3: Dr. Carl Jung


A two day collaboration in the desert, channeling other worldly concepts and creating sculptures within the landscape.


Creative Direction + Set Design: Grace Hartnett + Elysia Belilove


Photography: Kelly Jeffrey


About

 

Grace Hartnett is a multidisciplinary artist concentrating on film direction and installation design.

 

A delicate balance between visual simplicity and carefully crafted chaos, Grace’s work is informed by a fascination with human behavior, organic forms, and non-linear movement within time and space. By balancing surreal sculptural elements with the exploration of the human psyche, she delivers complex, cerebral experiences to the viewer.

 

Lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works internationally.

 

 

Education

 

2013          BFA Cinematic Arts & Media, MIU, Fairfield Iowa 

 

Select Exhibitions

 

2021          Nowness, Virtual Screening, The Enigma of a Dream
2021          Photography 212 Istanbul,  Yeldeğirmeni Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey

 

Select Projects

 

2019           Signs, Installation Design, Joshua Tree, CA
2018          Foam, Installation Design, Brooklyn, NY
2018          Gray Matters, Installation Design, Paris, France & Brooklyn, NY
2018          Nanushka, Installation Design for NYFW, New York, NY
2017          Beaufille,  Installation Design for NYFW, New York, NY
2017          Kin & Co, Installation Design, Brooklyn, NY

 

Select Publications

 

2020          Document Journal, De Guzman, Video Direction
2019          SSAW Magazine, Set Design—Fashion Editorial w/ Zhi Wei 
2019          Dazed Magazine, Set Design—Haus of Love, Fashion Editorial w/ Sam Nixon
2019          Document Journal, Set Design—Fashion Editorial w/ Sam Nixon
2019          SSAW Magazine,  Set Design—Fashion Editorial w/ Zhi Wei 
2019          Vogue Germany,  Set Design—Fashion Editorial w/ Julia Noni
2019          WSJ Magazine, Set Design—Still Life Editorial w/ Sebastian Lager
2019          WSJ Magazine, Set Design—Still Life Editorial w/ Joanna McClure
2018          Vogue Magazine, Set Design—Vogue Gift Guide Video w/ Andrew b Myers
2018          Phile Magazine, Set Design—Encyclophilia Video w/ Andrew b Myers
2017          The New York Times, Set Design—Fashion Editorial w/ Eric Chakeen 
2015          The Atlantic Magazine, Set Design—Still Life Editorial w/ Andrew B Myers

 

Select Commissions

 

2021          Apple, Set Design—Still Life Emoji Day, Brooklyn, NY
2021          Calvin Klein, Set Design— Still Life Holiday Campaign, New York, NY
2021          Kate Spade, Set Design—Still Life, New York, NY
2020         Vaquera x Dover Street Market, Installation Design, New York, NY
2019          MAC Cosmetics, Set Design— Motion Campaign, New York, NY
2019          Moda Operandi, Set Design— Holiday Campaign, New York, NY
2019          Adidas Originals, Set Design— Campaign, New York, NY
2019          Aesop, Set Design— Hong Kong Campaign, New York, NY
2019          David Yurman, Set Design—Still Life, New York, NY
2018          Sephora, Set Design—Still Life, New York, NY
2018          Sonos, Set Design— Motion Campaign, New York, NY
2017          Moon Choi, Set Design—Lookbook, New York, NY

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