Bartlett was born in California and began her art studies at Mills College in Oakland. She went on to earn both a BFA and an MFA from Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. She began her career working in the Geometric Minimalist style that was prevalent at the time, but soon developed her unique style of juxtaposing conceptual systems and abstraction with painterly representation. Bartlett’s work has been widely exhibited in major international museums, and is represented in the permanent collections of numerous prestigious institutions including The Tate, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Bartlett was born in California and began her art studies at Mills College in Oakland. She went on to earn both a BFA and an MFA from Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. She began her career working in the Geometric Minimalist style that was prevalent at the time, but soon developed her unique style of juxtaposing conceptual systems and abstraction with painterly representation. Bartlett’s work has been widely exhibited in major international museums, and is represented in the permanent collections of numerous prestigious institutions including The Tate, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.