In addition to multiple solo and group exhibitions in the
United States,
Italy,
Canada, and
South Africa, Harris also served as an artist-in-residence at the
Studio Museum in Harlem (2001–2002), the
Center for Photography at Woodstock (2004),
St. Mary's College of Maryland (2005), Omi International Art Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (2006). Her work has been exhibited at many galleries, including
MoMA PS1,
Miami Art Museum, Bruno Marina Gallery, and the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. She has participated in the following group exhibitions: Blues for Smoke (
MoCA and
Whitney Museum), Black Light (White Noise Contemporary Art Museum and Freestyle Studio Museum Harlem). Her work has been reviewed in
The New York Times,
Time Out New York, and the
Los Angeles Times, among others. Critics have described her work as "minimal," making use of installation, drawing, photography, and video to express "formal concerns of space, light and the phenomenological with issues of individual subjectivity." She has also made use of reflective surfaces like mirror or silver leaf to highlight the architecture of space. Of her work, Harris explains, "My projects often provide a disorienting encounter for the viewer: in my installations I am concerned with destabilization and re-orientation. To achieve this I often create architectural and environmental interventions – by using light and reflective surfaces; by inverting subject and object or figure and ground; and/or by reversing up and down, exterior and interior." Harris stated that her work was influenced by artists like
James Turrell,
Mark Rothko, and the
Hudson River School painters. She also explained, "A lot of my interest in light came from being from Los Angeles, where the light is just everywhere. You have these huge expanses of sky". She has also cited
science fiction, as well as films and cityscapes like
Metropolis and
Mad Max as influences.
Works •
Interstices, 1997
Rosamund Fesen Gallery and at GAle GAtes et Al •
96 Degrees in the Shade, 2001 •
Void, River, Nocturne, 2001 •
Falling Up, 2003 •
Waterfall, 2005
MoMa PS1 •
Crescendo, 2006 •
Untitled (Pyramid), 2007
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. •
Just Beyond Reality, 2009 CUE Art Foundation in New York City. •
The Block, 2011
Prizes and awards In 1998 Harris won the Lorser Feitelson Emerging Artist award. In 2003 she won the
Harvestworks artist-in-residence video production grant. == Personal life ==