Education
2010
MFA Fibers & Material Studies, School Of The Art Institute of Chicago
2006
BFA Textiles and Painting, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
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Solo Shows
2026
Pet Trade, Fleisher Ollman Gallery PA
2023
Tough Nut, Fleisher Ollman Gallery PA
2020
Tender Buttons, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Project Space, New York, NY
2019
Hatch, Bowtie Project, Clockshop, Los Angeles, CA
Soffe Shred, Spring/Break Art Fair, New York, NY
Flaggin’ 1, 2, 3, Socrates Park Site Specific Commission, New York, NY
Mother Mascots, Drake Hotel, Toronto, On, CA
2017
Rope. Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Art Center, Seoul Korea
2016
Frosted, Philadelphia Airport Art Installation, Philadelphia, PA.
Jesse Harrod, Abington Art Center, Philadelphia, PA.
Toxic Shock and the Hot Dog, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA.
Soft Hardware, Arlington Arts Center, VA.
Low Ropes Course, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY.
2011
Installation, Burnham Hotel, Chicago, IL.
2010
Frosted Pink Lipstick Smeared All Over His Face, Pop-Up Art Loop, Chicago Loop Alliance, Chicago, IL.
2006
Oh So Pretty, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Group Shows
2023
Geometric Abstraction in Textile Art, Jeff Lincoln Art+Design Gallery, Southampton
Independent Art Fair 2023, New York, NY
2022
Learn but the letters forme(d) by heart,Then soon you’l gain this noble art Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
Fields and Formations, American University Museum, DC
2021
Fields and Formations, The Delaware Contemporary, MDD
Notions of Identity, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, NY
Only Connect, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago Il
Touching From a Distance, Fleisher Ollman Gallery PA,
2020
Devils Lake, http://devils-lake.com/gallery.html
Arcadia Earth, New York NY
Independent Art Fair, Fleisher Ollman New York, NY.
2019
Mending and Repair in Response with Lisi Raskin at Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia PA
Even Thread Has a Speech, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan WI
Structured, Textile Center, MN
FAF, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Lip-Sync Parade, Fjord, Philadelphia, PA
2018
Laugh Back, Smack Mellon, New York, NY
Restful Waking, collaboration with Pepon Osorio, Kathmandu, Nepal
Cast of Characters, General Services Bureau, New York, NY
Two Spiders, Grizzly Grizzly Philadelphia PA.
Wonder Twins, Collaborative film by Jesse Harrod and Lisi Raskin, Nuit Rose Festival of Queer Art, Toronto, ON, CanadaArsenal, Arts and Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI.
Haptic Tactics: Queer Strategies for Abstracting Touch and Desire, Leslie-Lohman Museum New York, NY.
2017
KOGEI Exhibition, Toyama Musuem, Toyama Japan
Passing Fancies, Biennale Internationale Du Lin De Portneuf, Quebec
“Wonder Twins: Collaborative film by Jesse Harrod and Lisi Raskin”. Curated by RT Collective. Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival.
Expanded Visions: Fifty Years of Collecting Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
Material Deviance, SculptureCenter Long Island City, NYC.
Steady Mess, General Services Bureau New York, NYC.
2016
XmASS, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
Leaden Hearts, Riccardo Cresti, Milan, Italy
"Between The Threads", Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
75th Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
Re-Reclaimed, Little Berlin Philadelphia, PA.
Artist Statement screening, 20/92 Video Festival, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia,PA.
Being Her Now: Feminine Identity In The 21st Century, Salisbury University Art Gallery, Salisbury, MD.
Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.
Artist Statement screening, Brown University, Providence, RI.
2015
String Along, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
With For and Against, Vox Populi, PA.
Pebble Drinkers, Gallery Aferro, NW, NJ.
A Tendency Towards Textiles: Connectivity in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, Decker Gallery, The Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Feminism (n.): Plural, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL.
With For And Against, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA.
2014
Feminists and Queers and Queer Feminists, Back Pack Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, NY.
The Stench of Rotting Flowers, Curated by Danny Orendorff, La Esquina, Kansas City, MO
The Neighbors, American University, Washington, DC.
2013
Untended, FAB gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
No Longer Presidents but Prophets, Delicious Spectacle, Washington, DC.
Let’s Talk About Love, Baby, Printed Matter, NY and iMOCA, Indianapolis, IN.
2012
Let’s Talk About Love, Baby, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Detroit, MI. Spencer Museum, Lawrence, KS.
All Good Things Become Wild and Free, curated by Danny Orendorff, H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art, Kenosha, WI.
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI.
Belief and Doubt in Contemporary Pictures, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI.
New Work by Jesse Harrod and Elijah Burgher, Living Room Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2011
Cut, The Evanston Art Center, Chicago, IL.CSA Threewalls, Chicago, IL.
Frosted Pink Lipstick Smeared All Over His Face installation, MDW Art Fair, Chicago, IL.
2010
Faculty Show, Interlochen Center for the Visual Arts, Interlochen, MI.
Six Rooms, Longman and Eagle, Chicago, IL.9, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL.
2009
Installation 2, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL.
Sense and Form, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL.
2008
Installation 1, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL.
Eyelevel Mentorship Show, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2007
Beasties, Khyber Institute of Contemporary Arts, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The Ross Creek Secret, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia.The Moorings Gallery, Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.
Art in a Box, Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Emerging Artists, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2006
Group Show, The Khyber Institute of Contemporary Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Line Notation, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2005
Feminist Show, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Juried Group Shows
2016
Artist Statement screening, 20/92 Video Festival, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia,PA.
75th Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
2015
Feminism (n.): Plural, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2013
Fiber Optics, 1310 Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL.(e)merge Art Fair Washington, DC.
2012
Great Lakes Drawing Biennial, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI.
2009
That’s So Gay, The Works Gallery, San José, California.
Common Thread International Juried Exhibition Part 1, World of Threads Festival, Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, Oakville, Ontario.
2008
Eyelevel Re-Shelving Initiative: 3, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
2007
BIG FIBRE, Little Fiber, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario.
2006
Small Talk, Canadian traveling show, in conjunction with the 10th Biennial of the Textile Society of America.
CURATORIAL AND PROGRAMMING
2015
Surf Club, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA.
2014
Data/Transfer/Object, Cuchifritos Gallery/Project Space, Brooklyn, NY.
Feminists and Queers and Queer Feminists, Back Pack Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Bibliography Reviews & Interviews
Interview
Singer, Matt “In Conversation with Polly Apfelbaum, Jesse Harrod and Joy Feasly” Adams and Ollmanhttps://adamsandollman.com/Matthew-Singer-in-conversation-with-Apfelbaum-Feasley-and-Harrod
Review
Hartley, Katie “Sitting in Uncertainty” Bmore Art, May 2022.https://bmoreart.com/2022/05/sitting-in-uncertainty.html
ArtBlog, Interview
Cryer, Logan "Jesse Harrod's road to macrame through the American South" ArtBlog, March 2023.
https://www.theartblog.org/2023/03/jesse-harrods-road-to-macrame-through-the-american-south/
Interview
Wiener, Daniel “Jesse Harrod” Romanov Grave, Feb, 2021.
https://www.romanovgrave.com/one-question-one-answer/jesse-harrod
Wallpaper, Review
Klingelfuss, Jessica "Independent New York delivers resilience, poignance and power." Wallpaper, March 2020.
https://www.wallpaper.com/art/independent-new-york-2020
Artsy, Review
Cohen, Alina “7 Artists Who Stole the Show at Spring/Break.” Artsy, March 2019
Textile Plus. Interview.Kargol, Marta,"Textile as cultural criticism: the sculptures of Jesse Harrod.” Textile Plus. March 2019
Forbes, Review
Binlot, Ann “Arcadia Earth: An Instagram Experience With Technology, Art--And An Education In Environmentalism” Forbes, Aug, 2019
The New York Times, Review
Greaber, Laurel, “AtʻArcadia Earth,ʼ Dazzle Illuminates Danger” The New York Times, Oct. 2019
TimeOut NYC, Review
Weaver, Shaye “Sustainable art exhibit Arcadia Earth reflects on humanity's ecological footprint” TimeOut NYC, Sept 2019
The Kathmandu Post. Interview
Tuladhar, Nhooja. “Room for Community: Addressing Societal Disconnect and the Lack of Safe Spaces Through a Public Art Installation.” The Kathmandu Post. June 2018 https://kathmandupost.com/miscellaneous/2018/06/16/room-for-community
My Philly Park Blog. Interview
Rose, Theresa, “Q & A With West Park Arts Fest Artist Jesse Harrod.”My Philly Park Blog. June 2018
Artblog. Review
Krieger, Deborah. “Queer Forms on Display at Grizzly Grizzly’s “Two Spiders.” Artblog. June 2018 https://www.theartblog.org/2018/05/queer-forms-on-display-at-grizzly-grizzlys-two-spiders/
Posture Magazine. Interview
“The Eroticism of Materials And Political Nature Of Abstraction.” April Issue. http://posturemag.com/online/jesse-harrod/
The Archive Magazine. Interview
Parness, Noam, Sander, Daniel, Puelo, Risa. “Haptic Tactics, An Interview with Artist Jesse”. The Archive Magazine, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. Winter 2017, issue 62.
Surface Design. Review
Orendorff, Danny, “Category Is: Rainbow Linen Realness", Surface Design Journal, Color, Fall 2017 https://www.surfacedesign.org/tag/danny-orendorff/
Monograph
Harrod, Jesse, Patrick Riley, and Beth Capper, Eds. Jesse Harrod:Low Ropes Course. Hudson: Publication Studio, 2016.
https://publicationstudio.biz/books/low-ropes-course/
Books
Paterson Karen, Lenore Tawney, Mirror of the Universe, University of Chicago Press, 2020. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo45997885.html
Casals, Gonzalo and Paarness, Noam, Eds. Queer Holdings, Hirmer Press 2019
https://www.abebooks.com/Queer-Holdings-Survey-Leslie-Lohman-Museum-Collection/31712244431/bd
Chaich, John and Todd Oldham, Eds. Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community. Los Angeles: Ammo Books, 2017 https://www.ammobooks.com/products/queerthreads
Interview
Inertia Studio Visit. “Jesse Harrod.” 2017 https://inertiastudiovisits.com/2017/08/28/studio-visit-with-jesse-harrod-philadelphia-pa/
SculptureCenter. Reviews
Solomone, Andrew, "Knotty" Macramé Works Bind Feminism, Queerness, And Diversity", Vice Creators April 12 CRAFT, 2017
2017 Rodney Seph, When the Language Meant to Prop Up Art Makes It Fall Over Hyperallergic, March 14, 2017
"The Week in Craft", American Craft Council. March 15, 2017
Vox Populi. Reviews
Farley Anthony, Michael and Whitney, Kimball. “We went to Philly Part 1”ARTFCITY. June 21, 2016 http://artfcity.com/2016/06/21/we-went-to-philly-part-1-vox-populi/
FIAR. Interviews
Stone, Bryony. “The Queer Artists of Fire Island.” i-D Vice. July 26, 2016 McQuaid, Kate.
Review
“Fabric art and Cuban Memories are on Display.” Boston Globe. June 7, 2016
http://artfcity.com/2016/06/21/we-went-to-philly-part-1-vox-populi/
Queer Threads. Review
McQuaid, Kate. “Fabric art and Cuban Memories are on Display.” Boston Globe. June 7, 2016 https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2016/06/06/fabric-art-and-cuban-memories-are-display/WG7f06qc51v4naoqpvt12O/story.html
Material Fix exhibition. Review
Minerath, Kat. “Contemporary Textiles Illustrate the Fabric Of Life”Wisconsin Gazette, September 10, 2015
With For and Against. Review
Amorosi A. D. “Artistry, diversity on display from new collective members”EPGN, June 11, 2015 https://epgn.com/2015/06/10/artistry-diversity-on-display-from-new-collective-members/
Queer Threads. Review
King, Barbara J. “When Art Is Queer.” NPR. March 13, 2014. https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2014/03/13/289820974/when-art-is-queer
Against the Bias. Review
Jenkins, Mark. “D.C. gallery shows: ‘Then and Now: 40 Years,’ ‘Fall Solos 2013,’ ‘Against the Bias.’ The Washington Post. December 13 2013.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/dc-gallery-shows-then-and-now-40-years-fall-solos-2013-against-the-bias/2013/12/12/b152fa46-60e8-11e3-a7b4-4a75ebc432ab_story.html
Artslant. Interview
Capper, Beth. “Interview with Jesse Harrod.” Artslant. January 2013.
All Good Things Become Wild and Free. Review
Eler, Alicia. “A Wild Forest of Queer Aesthetics.” Hyperallergic. November 6, 2012.https://aliciaeler.com/2012/11/06/review-wild-forest-queer-aesthetics-hyperallergic/
Profile in Fiber Focus Magazine. Interview
Bate, Gareth. “Ten Up and Coming Canadian Fibre Artists to Watch.” Fibre Focus Magazine. Jan/ April 2012. Print.https://www.garethbate.com/writing_pages/essays/10_up_and_coming_canadian_fibre_artists_to_watch_11.htm
Profile in Chicago Magazine. Interview
“Wearable Art.” Chicago Magazine. Fall 2011. Print.
Interview with World of Threads. Interview
Bate, Gareth and Dawne Rudman. “Interview 10: Jesse Harrod.” 2009.
Profile in Visual Arts News. Interview
Visual Arts News 30.2. Fall 2008. Print.
Review of Big Fibre, Little Fibre exhibition. Interview
Dick, Terence. “untitled.” Akimbo. November 9, 2007.
Catalog Essays & journals
2018 Cave Homo 2, Selected photographs Luke Wilson, Ed. 2018
Vaccaro, Jean. "An Essay By Jean Vaccaro on Two Spiders". Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA 2018.https://grizzlygrizzly.wordpress.com/2018/07/09/two-spiders-an-essay-by-jeanne-vaccaro/
2017 In Practice: Material Deviance SculptureCenter, Ed. Long Island City, New York. Black Dog Publishing 2017 Sorkin, Jenni Material Bodies, SculptureCenter, Ed. Long Island City, New York. Black Dog Publishing 2017
2017 Cut Cloth Contemporary Textiles and Feminism, Edited Collection, PO Publishing.2017
Eler, Alicia. “The Tragicomedy of Jesse Harrod’s Artworld OR I am laughing so Hard That I am Crying Right Now, So Please Just Hold Me.” Catalog. NurtureArt, New York.
NYFerris, Alison. “Material Fix.” Towards Textiles Catalog. ed. John Michael Kohler Publications 2015.
Orendorff, Danny. “Indescribable Arrangements.” All Good Things Become Wild & Free catalog. ed, Danny Orendorff.Kenosha, WI: Carthage College Publications, 2012.
awards
2020 Pew Fellow, The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage2020 Research and Creative Achievement Award, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University
2019 Canada Council Research Grant
2019 Dean's Grant, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
2018 GIA Arts Awards, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
2017 Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2017 Summer Research Award Tyler School of Art, Temple University
2016 Vice Provost for the Arts Awards Tyler School of Art, Temple University
2015 Vice Provost for the Arts Awards Tyler School of Art, Temple University Summer Research Award Tyler School of Art, Temple University
2010 Finalist in Juried National Sculpture Exhibition of Outstanding Art CollegeGraduates Beijing HuaQiaoCheng
visiting artist lectures
2024 Visiting Artist University of Oregon, Eugene Oregon
2023 Visiting Art, Vermont Studio Center, VT
2022 Visiting Artist, University of Kentucky, KY
2020 Mrinalini Mukherjee and Me, MET Breuer, NYC
2020 Artist Talk, Museum of Art and Design, NYC
2019 Visiting Artist, Transformer Gallery, DC, visits Philadelphia, PA.
2018 Studio Lecture, MacDowell Artist Colony and Hyperallergic visit Philadelphia, PA
2018 Visiting Artist, Acre Artist Residency, Steuben, WI
2018 Kathmandu University, Patan, Nepal,
2017/2018 Nexus Art Center, Patan Nepal,
2017 Demonstration and Talk in conjunction with the Francoise Grossen Exhibtion,
at The Museum of Art and Design, New York NY.
2017 LA Book Fair, Panel Discussion for Low Ropes Course with Tanya Aguiniga moderated by Danny Orendorff 2017
Visiting Critique George Washington University, DC
2017 Longwood University VA. 2017Gallery Talk, Toxic Shock and Hotdog, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Gallery Talk, Talking Threads, Mills Gallery Boston, MA
2016 Visiting Critique at Review Board, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
2016 Gallery Talk, Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, Decker Gallery, Maryland
2016 School of Art and Design, Baltimore, MD
2016 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2015 Massachusetts College of Art and Design 2014Concordia University Montreal Canada
2014 James Madison University, School of Art and Design Art History
2012 Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2012 School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Research and Practice
2012 Mess Hall, Chicago
2011 School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Research and Practice
2011 College for Creative Studies, Detroit, When Fiber Paints
2010 Art Institute of Chicago MFA Lecture Series
residencies
2024 Headlands Center for the Arts
2024 The Rauschenberg Residency at Captiva
2022 Kohler Arts and Industry
2022 The Rauschenberg
2019 Banff Center for Arts and Creativity
2018/2019 Museum of Art and Design, NY
2017 MacDowell Artist Residency
Iceland Textile Center Blönduós, Iceland
Vermont Studio Center VT.
FAWC Provincetown, MA
2016 Fire Island Artist Residency,Fire Island NY
Textile Art Symposium, the Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Latvia
Haystack Open Studio, Deer Isle, MA
2015 RAIR
Vermont Studio Center
2013 Vermont Studio Center
2012 Vermont Studio Center
2011 Ox-bow, Sagutack Michigan
Harold Arts Residency Program, Chesterhill, Ohio
2010 Harold Arts Residency Program, Chesterhill, Ohio
2010 Sanskriti, Delhi India
2007 The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery and Parks Canada Residency, Newfoundland