Whit Harris is a multi-disciplinary artist working across drawing, painting, and ceramic media. Her work features representations of the dissoluted experience through disjointed depictions of the human body. Figures stretch, recline, wriggle, twerk and otherwise contort themselves in exaggerated expressions that oscillate between naturalistic and cartoonish forms, and recall the DuBoisian premise of “double consciousness” underlying contemporary Black identity. These figures become metaphors for the artist’s psychological adaptation to unpredictable and hostile environments borne out of anti-black social structures, and reflect the tenacity and ingenuity of Black femme imagination as political resistance.
Whit Harris was born and raised in New York City. Harris has held solo exhibitions at Lauren Powell Projects, Los Angeles, and Artshack Gallery, Brooklyn in 2022. Her group exhibitions include Hauser and Wirth, New York; DIMIN, New York; Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich; and Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn. Harris holds an MFA from Hunter College, NY, and a BA from Stony Brook University, NY.