About

Jen P. Harris (they/she) is a visual artist working with painting, drawing, textiles, and curating. Recent works combine painting with weaving techniques to create hybrid objects that question the conventions of both mediums. Born in Virginia, Harris studied painting at Yale University (BA) and Queens College CUNY (MFA) and spent over two decades in New York City, Los Angeles, and the New York Hudson Valley before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, where they now live and work.

Harris’s work has been the subject of many exhibitions throughout the US, garnering press in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CultureCatch, VelvetPark, The Korea Times (Los Angeles), and The Plain Dealer (Cleveland). Recent shows include Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn), Abigail Ogilvy (Los Angeles), Abattoir (Cleveland), and LADIES’ ROOM (Los Angeles).

Harris is the recipient of a 2012 Fellowship in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts (New York, NY), a 2023 Satellite Fund Grant from SPACES (Cleveland), and grants from the Puffin Foundation, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, Ohio Arts Council, and Iowa Arts Council. They have been artist-in-residence at Praxis Digital Weaving Lab, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Women’s Studio Workshop, and Vermont Studio Center, among others.