About

Jen P. Harris (born Virginia, USA, based in Cleveland, OH) is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, drawing, textiles, and multiples. Her practice has been shaped by the basic notion that art-making is a conduit for reinvention. Harris’s paintings and drawings have been shown at Ortega y Gasset Projects (NY), Essex Flowers (NY), Abigail Ogilvy (LA), Edgar Gallery (LA); and Abattoir (OH), among many others. In 2012 she received a NYFA Fellowship in Painting, and in 2023 she was awarded a Satellite Fund Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and SPACES. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Tussle, CultureCatch, Guernica, VelvetPark, The Korea Times (LA), and Cleveland Plain Dealer. Harris has been artist-in-residence at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Amherst, VA), Kimmel Harding Nelson (Nebraska City, NE), Praxis Digital Weaving Lab (Cleveland, OH), Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat (Laceyville, PA), Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY), and Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT). Her recent “loom-paintings,” which combine painting with weaving techniques, will be featured in TEXTILE x ART, a major Thames and Hudson AU survey publication scheduled for international release in late 2025. Her paintings are in public collections, including the Kent State University Museum, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital. Her work can also be found in corporate and institutional collections, such as those of Morgan Stanley and Farm Bureau Financial Services. Harris received an MFA in Painting from Queens College CUNY and a BA in Studio Art from Yale University.