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 reduced to objects meant to be separated, stretched, and reassembled. Challenging a capitalist positioning of female bodies as sites of desire, labour, and extraction, Harris' practice seeks to reclaim physical autonomy and invert the agentic denials set upon the female body. Taking an interroceptive (internally sensing) approach, her work is concerned with locating and releasing the flesh memories held within a woman's body, as a way of understanding its core existence, or its 'bodyhood' as termed by Harris. Her work is informed by a personal history of motherhood and reproduction; Trinidadian/Caribbean culture, mythology, ecology; and 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: 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). Selected group exhibitions include: 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); REAL Fake, How The Light Gets In, Hay-on-Wye (2022). Her works have been acquired by the UAL Arts Collection, The Ingram Collection, and the Marcelle Joseph Collection.
Harris is represented by Cooke Latham Gallery, London UK.
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
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)
GRANTS
2023 | DYCP Arts Council UK
2021 | Central Saint Martins KE Projects
2009 | The Drawing Center New York
2008 | ISE Foundation Program
RESIDENCIES
2022 | ACME Studios (London, UK)
2021 | KE x ArtHaus (London, UK)
2016 | Luise Kimme Sculpture Museum (Mt. Irvine, Tobago)
SOLO SHOWS
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
2022 | Detritus……………… Tension Gallery | London, UK
2022 | Ingram Prize Show……………… Unit 1 Gallery | London, UK
2022 | Curved Space……………… PEER Gallery | London, UK
2022 | The Body We Are In……………… Confer Karnac | London, UK
2022 | Curated II - WOMXN……………… Unit 1 Gallery | London, UK
2022 | FILM LIME……………… Studio 108 | London, UK
2021 | Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival………………Alice Yard | Belmont, TT
2021 | What Have We Done?………………Lethaby Gallery | London, UK
2021 | Final, not Over………………Unit 1 Gallery | London, UK
2020 | Homeward Bound………………Alexandra Palace | London, UK
2020 | I Promise You………………Apiary Studio | London, UK
2020 | Big Space………………1 Granary Sq. | London, UK
2019 | On Making………………Ofr. | Copenhagen, DK
PERFORMANCES RESEARCH PROJECTS ARTIST PUBLICATIONS TALKS + PRESENTATIONS RECENT MEDIA INDUSTRY PRACTICE ACADEMIC PRACTICE PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
2024 | 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
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
2024 | Photo Sonny Studio Smile (Forthcoming)
2024 | Taking Space (Forthcoming)
2024 | 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
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
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
2022 | Collections Advisor……………… University of the Arts, London, UK
2022 | Visiting Research Academic……………… Central Saint Martins, London UK
Ingram Collection
UAL Art Collection
Marcelle Joseph Collection