About

Jen P. Harris (born Virginia, USA, based Cleveland, OH) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work in painting, drawing, and textiles has been exhibited nationally.

She is the recipient of a Puffin Foundation Individual Artist Grant (2011), the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Visual Arts Fund Grant (2011), a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting (2012), and a Satellite Fund Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and SPACES (2023).

Harris has presented solo exhibitions at Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, Edgar Gallery, Los Angeles, and the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington. Her work was featured in the critically acclaimed Painting Deconstructed, curated by Leeza Meksin at Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn. Other exhibitions include Under this mask, another mask, an exhibition of contemporary queer abstraction at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Los Angeles, and Common Currents: Contemporary Art from Northeast Ohio and Western New York at Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, and traveling to the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo. Her work will be featured in TEXTILE x ART, a major Thames and Hudson AU survey publication scheduled for international release in late 2025.

Harris’s paintings are in public and corporate collections, including the Kent State University Museum, New York Foundation for the Arts, University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, Morgan Stanley, and Farm Bureau Financial Services. She received an MFA in Painting from Queens College CUNY and a BA in Studio Art from Yale University.