About

Jen P. Harris (they/she) was born in Virginia and currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. Harris received a BA in studio art from Yale University in 1999 and an MFA in painting from Queens College of the City University of New York in 2008. They were awarded a Fellowship in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2012 and a Satellite Fund Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in 2023. Additional awards include grants from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, the Puffin Foundation, the Iowa Arts Council, and the Ohio Arts Council. Harris has shown their work at venues including Daniel Cooney Fine Art, Sardine, Causey Contemporary, and Ortega y Gasset Projects (all New York, NY); the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts (Wilmington, DE); Coagula Projects, Edgar Gallery, and Abigail Ogilvy Gallery (all Los Angeles, CA); and Abattoir Gallery (Cleveland, OH). In sum, their work has been the subject of a dozen solo exhibitions and appeared in over 50 group shows throughout the US, garnering reviews in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Tussle, CultureCatch, VelvetPark, The Korea Times (Los Angeles), and the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Harris’s work will be featured in TEXTILE x ART, a major Thames and Hudson AU survey publication scheduled for international release in late 2025.