About
Jen P. Harris is a multi/interdisciplinary artist working with painting, drawing, and textiles. In their works, analog mark-making, digital vocabularies, and handcraft come together to form queer pictorial spaces that adhere to neither the rules of the virtual nor the physical, offering another lens through which to see.
Harris was born in Virginia and lives and works in Cleveland, OH. They received their BA (1999) from Yale University and their MFA (2008) from Queens College of the City University of New York, and completed additional studies at the International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. Their work has been exhibited nationally, at venues including Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland, OH; Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY; and Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE. Harris’s works are included in public collections including the Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH; New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY; MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; and University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, Iowa City, IA. They are the recipient of a Puffin Foundation Individual Artist Grant (2011), Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Visual Arts Fund Grant (2011), New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting (2012), Satellite Fund Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and SPACES (2023), and a Pollock-Krasner Grant (2025). Their work will be featured in TEXTILES x ART, a major Thames and Hudson AU survey publication scheduled for international release in late 2025. Harris is represented by Abattoir Gallery in Cleveland.
Photo: Brian Cade, 2023