b. Blacksburg, VA, USA
Currently lives and works in Cleveland, OH
EDUCATION
2008 MFA, Queens College at the City University of New York, Queens, NY
1999 BA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1998 Yale-Norfolk Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Swarm, Morrissey Gallery, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA
2020 Janus, edgar gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Ghost Prairie, CSPS Hall, Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA (catalog)
2015 Codes, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
2011 American Kiss, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
2011 Light Weight, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2010 Conversations, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE (brochure)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Incantations, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH (curator: Jen P. Harris; forthcoming, Jun-Aug))
2024 Painting Deconstructed, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY (curator: Leeza Meksin; forthcoming, May-Aug)
2024 On Intimacy, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH (curator: Lisa Kurzner)
2024 Vivid Arrangements (3-person, with Sam Dienst and Mike Meier), Kink Contemporary, Cleveland, OH
2024 Under this mask, another mask, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curator: Sam Adams)
2023 Contoured Color, Olson-Larsen Galleries, West Des Moines, IA
2023 Goddesses and Monsters, LADIES’ ROOM, Los Angeles, CA and the Internet (curator: The Association of Hysteric Curators)
2021 Redefine, Olson-Larsen Galleries, West Des Moines, IA (curator: Donté K. Hayes)
2021 Phase Change, Vital Spaces, Santa Fe, NM (curator: Amanda Lechner)
2019 Proximity Suitcase, University of Iowa School of Art, Iowa City, IA (curator: Hannah Givler)
2018 Bridge Work, Var West Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2016 Monsters in America, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY (curator: Richard Saja)
2015 Back to Life, Saint Ann’s Church, Brooklyn, NY (co-curators: David C. Terry and Harry Weil)
2014 A Tangled Web, Causey Contemporary, New York, NY (curator: D. Dominick Lombardi)
2013 Other Hudson, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA (curator: C. Ryder Cooley)
2012 Rich and Cultivated, Sardine, Brooklyn, NY (curator: Sanders Watson)
2012 Art and Social Activism, chashama, Long Island City, NY (curator: Nicholas Cohn)
2012 In Their Own World, Tache Gallery, New York, NY (curator: D. Dominick Lombardi)
2012 The Aesthetic of Intimacy, Silber Art Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD (curator: Laura Amussen)
2010 When girls were boys & boys were girls, Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY
2010 Fresh Paint, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY (curator: Lynn Stein)
2009 Outside the Lines, A.D. Gallery, UNC at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC (curator: Carla Rokes)
2009 Aspiration/Inspiration, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (curator: Nicholas Cohn)
2009 ShapeShifting, Division of Human Works, Brooklyn, NY (curator: Alice Shay)
2008 Retail Space Available, Gallery 151, New York, NY
2002 F*CK ROMANCE: New Romanticism in L.A., Coagula Projects, Los Angeles, CA (curator: Chris Sicat)
2001 ARIA, Artplace, Los Angeles, CA (curator: Holly Myers)
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, residency (forthcoming, July)
2024 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE, residency (March)
2023 Praxis Digital Weaving Lab, Cleveland, OH, residency (September)
2023 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/SPACES, Cleveland, OH, Satellite Fund Grant
2023 Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio, Artist Opportunities Grant
2021 Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat, Laceyville, PA, residency
2019 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, residency
2016 Art Matters Foundation, New York, NY, grant nominee
2016 Iowa Arts Council, Des Moines, IA, Art Project Grant
2015 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, residency
2012 New York Foundation for the Arts, Albany, NY, Fellowship in Painting
2012 Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, residency
2011 Puffin Foundation, New York, NY, Individual Artist Grant
2011 Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, New York, NY, Visual Arts Fund Grant
2009 The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Viewing Program (2009-2014)
1998 Yale University, Bates Traveling Fellowship to Rome, Italy
1996 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, residency
ARTIST TALKS AND PANELS
2024 St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA (virtual)
2022 Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA (virtual)
2016 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2016 Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA
2015 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2015 St. Ann’s Church, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2012 chashama Long Island City, NY
2012 The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2011 Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
2009 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2009 The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
SELECTED PRESS
Clare Gemima, “On Intimacy: An interview with Carmen Winant, Ang Zhang, and Julia Callis,” Widewalls, April 8, 2024
Steve Litt, “A pair of Cleveland gallery shows create spaces for intimate encounters with compelling visions of private worlds,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH, March 14, 2024
“Life & Work with Jen P. Harris” (interview), VoyageLA, Los Angeles, CA, December 19, 2022
“Accepting the unknown; a relationship to art making” (podcast), Articulation by CuratorLove, Los Angeles, CA, April 12, 2020
Ha Eun - sun, “Resistance to reality through the act of cutting without drawing,” The Korea Times, Los Angeles, CA, March 19, 2020
Bradley Rubenstein, “Tangled Up in Blue,” CultureCatch, New York, NY, January, 2015
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “Pacific: Gabrielle Calvocoressi interviews Jen P. Harris,” Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics, July 15, 2011
“Picks,” The New York Times, January 31, 2010, p. 13
Victoria Donohoe, “Credit card art, emotional oils,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 22, 2010
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
New York Foundation for the Arts
University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital
Farm Bureau Financial Services
Kirkwood Community College
Morgan Stanley