Lisa-Marie Harris is a contemporary artist from Trinidad & Tobago, living and working in London. Her practice addresses the dehumanisation of women by interrogating how their bodies are re-framed as things, and are subsequently reduced to sites of desire, labour, and extraction. Across sculpture, moving image, sound, photography, performance, and publishing, Harris' work is a push to reclaim physical autonomy and invert the agentic denials set upon the female body. Taking an interroceptive (internally sensing) and abstracted, minimalist approach, her work is concerned with locating and releasing what she has termed the “flesh memories” held within the body. Her practice is informed by a personal history of motherhood and reproduction; Trinidadian (and by extension, Caribbean) culture, mythology, ecology; and by migration.

Harris received her MA (distinction) in 2021 from Central Saint Martins, London UK, and her B.Sc. (summa cum laude; highest hons.) in 2012 from The New School, New York City, USA. She is the recipient of The Ingram Prize (2022) The Helen Scott Lidgett Award (2022), and the Jane Carole Clarke Award (2021). Recent solo exhibitions include: Ease the Tension, Studio Chapple Gallery, London UK (2025); Highly Strung, MiArt, Milan IT (2024); The Pusher and The Pull, Lightbox Museum, Woking UK (2023); RESPONSES (To Things I've Been Told About My Body) Cooke Latham Gallery, London UK (2023). Select group exhibitions include: Fractured Venus, Cooke Latham Gallery (2025); Contested Bodies, Stanley and Audrey Burton Galleries, University of Leeds, UK (2023); RAW NERVES, Hannah Barry Gallery, London UK (2022); Curved Space, Peer Gallery, London UK (2022); Curated II - WOMXN, Unit 1 Gallery, London (2022). Her works have been acquired by the UAL Arts Collection, The Ingram Collection, The Marcelle Joseph Collection, and private collectors.

 Harris is represented in the UK by Cooke Latham Gallery.

C.V.

EDUCATION
2021
M.A. | Central Saint Martins – London, UK
Distinction
Contemporary Photography: Practices & Philosophy

2012
B.Sc. | The New School – New York, USA
Summa Cum Laude | Highest Hons. / 1st Class
Visual Culture, Media Studies & Aesthetics

GRANTS
2023 | DYCP Arts Council UK
2021 | Central Saint Martins KE Projects
2009 | The Drawing Center New York
2008 | ISE Foundation Program

AWARDS
2022  | Ingram Prize (London, UK)
2022  | Helen Scott Lidgett Award (London, UK)
2021  | Jane Carole Clarke Memorial Award (London, UK)
2008  | The New School Graduates Award (New York, USA)
1998  | SanFest National Arts Award (San Fernando, TT)

RESIDENCIES
2022 | ACME Studios (London, UK)
2021  | KE x ArtHaus (London, UK)
2016  | Luise Kimme Sculpture Museum (Mt. Irvine, Tobago)

SOLO SHOWS
2025 | Ease The Tension……………… Studio Chapple Gallery, London, UK
2024 | Highly Strung……………… MiArt | Milan, IT
2023 | The Pusher and The Pull……………… Lightbox Gallery Museum | Woking, UK
2023 | Responses (To things I’ve been told about my body)………Cooke Latham Gallery | London UK

PERFORMANCES
2025 | Cotton Candy 001……………… (Forthcoming)
2024 | Bone of the Egret……………… Lost Tribe - QPS, Port of Spain T&T
2023 | Cover Yourself ………………London Gallery Weekend; Cooke Latham Gallery | London, UK
2021  | Destination LOG…………DHL Shipping Depots: London UK, Caroni T&T, Appeldoorn NL
2020 | The Hair Shop………………Tate Exchange, Tate Modern | London, UK
2020 | Steups UK………………Digital pop-up GIF sale
2017  | TA[S]TE………………Tate Exchange, Tate Modern | London, UK
2017  | SITUATIONALS: A Body is Here………Picasso Museum | Paris, FR

RESEARCH PROJECTS
2022 | Real Hair, Fake Here………………UCL, The Philosophy Institute | London, UK
2017  | TASTE………………UCL, SOAS, University of Westminster | London, UK
2016  | Dehumanized Perception………………UCL & UCLA | Los Angeles, USA
2011  | Thomas Dang Vu x ISE Foundation………………New York, USA
2011  | Billy Omabegho: Writings………………New York, USA
2010  | Global Africa Project…………Museum of Art & Design (MAD Museum) | New York, USA

ARTIST PUBLICATIONS
2025 | Photo Sonny Studio Smile (Forthcoming)
2025 | Taking Space (Forthcoming)
2025 | Cover Yourself (Forthcoming)
2024 | The Studio Review (Ongoing)
2023 | Responses (To things I’ve been told about my body)
2023 | Au Courant Vol. 06
2022 | Root of the Womb
2022 | Au Courant Vol. 05
2020 | Last Monday
2020 | The Golden Hour

TALKS + PRESENTATIONS
2025 | Ruby Cruel Listening Salon……………… Fitzwilliam Museum | Cambridge University, UK
2024 | ACAVA TALKS……………… ACAVA | London, UK
2024 | Performing Gender as You See Fit……………… University of Leeds x LUL Galleries | Leeds, UK
2023 | Mind The Gap - RES ARTIS Conference Speaker……………… ACME x UCL | London, UK
2023 | The Pusher and The Pull – Artist Talk……………… Lightbox Museum Gallery | Woking, UK
2023 | Cover Yourself – Artist Talk……………… Cooke Latham Gallery | London, UK
2022 | The Studio - Duchamp & Sons……………… Whitechapel Gallery | London, UK
2021  | Film on Digital Panel………………Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival – Alice Yard | Belmont, TT
2021  | On Bodyhood ………………Considering Art | New York, USA

ACADEMIC PRACTICE
2025 | Guest Lecturer……………… Royal College of Arts, London UK
2022 | Visiting Research Academic……………… Central Saint Martins, London UK

INDUSTRY PRACTICE
2022 | Collections Advisor……………… University of the Arts, London, UK

SELECT MEDIA
2023 | The Art Newspaper……………… London Gallery Weekend 2023 Critics Pick
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/06/01/london-gallery-weekend-our-critics-picks
2023 | Apollo Magazine……………… London Gallery Weekend Highlights
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/london-gallery-weekend-2023-highlights/
2023 | Evening Standard……………… What To See London at Gallery Weekend
https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/exhibitions/london-gallery-weekend-highlights-what-to-see-b1083205.html

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Ingram Collection
UAL Art Collection
Marcelle Joseph Collection