Nancy Hart is a tenured Associate Professor of Art at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas. She earned a BFA in painting from Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, Virginia and a MFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

In 2004, Nancy Hart was the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to Bulgaria. She has also had grants to study printmaking in Prague, another to attend two artist residency sessions at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy and many other faculty travel awards to study in Italy over the last twelve years.

Her artist books, collages, and drawings have been shown in exhibitions in Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, South Korea, Switzerland, UK and the US. Her work is included in the permanent collections of several international museums and university galleries.