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Barbara Hazard grew up on Long Island, close to New York City, and has lived in many places in the United States—Oregon, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Connecticut. For the last thirty years her home has been in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. She is the mother of three children, grandmother of nine.
Hazard first went to Russia in 1983 and has spent an average of two months a year there since that time, mostly painting in St. Petersburg. She came to know the Leningrad independent artists’ community in the mid-‘80s when, together with Sergei Kovalskii, she curated an exchange of exhibitions with the TEII (The Fellowship for Experimental Fine Arts) for Gallery Route One in Point Reyes Station. She holds the Russians largely responsible for many of the recent developments in her own painting, including her acceptance of the dark.