Jenny Hart was born in 1972 in Iowa City and raised in rural Illinois. She is best known for her work in hand embroidery and her design and supply company Sublime Stitching (founded 2001). Hart’s work has been published in numerous books, the subject of cultural surveys, and featured in magazines including Vogue, NYLON, Spin, The Face, Juxtapoz, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the cover of The Washington Post Magazine, and more. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Paris, London, Tokyo and New York. 

Hart is also an award-winning author/designer of seven titles on embroidery for Chronicle Books. She has undertaken commercial projects and creative collaborations for clients including Penguin Books (UK), ESPN, MTV, Converse, Citizens of Humanity, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, LAIKA and others.

In 2015 Jenny was commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to design embroidery patterns inspired by works from the Met's textile archives for the exhibition Fashion and Virtue.  

Jenny’s work is in multiple public and private collections of note, including the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Renwick) and the collections of many celebrities including Maya Rudolph, Tracey Ullman, Richard Simmons, Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher and the estate of Elizabeth Taylor.

Jenny (Suzanne) Hart is her real, full name. After a combined twenty-five years living in Austin and Los Angeles, and surviving the California wildfires of 2025, she moved back to the midwest at the edge of the Mississippi River Valley.