Whit Harris

Whit Harris (b. 1985, Brooklyn, NY) 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. She has exhibited in group and solo shows in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Seattle and Munich. Harris holds an MFA at Hunter College, NY, and a BA from Stony Brook University, NY. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York