Jen P. Harris is a New York-based painter and graphic artist. Originally from Baltimore, Harris received her BA in Art from Yale University and her MFA in Painting from Queens College CUNY. Her work has been exhibited throughout the country at venues such as the Rockland Center for the Arts (RoCA), Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, The Wassaic Project, and Coagula Projects. In June 2011, Daniel Cooney Fine Art presented the first one-person show of her work in New York City, a project that was supported in part by the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Arts Center of the Capital Region. The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts featured a major solo exhibition of her paintings in early 2010. Harris received grants from both the Astraea Visual Arts Fund and the Puffin Foundation in 2011. Among other honors she has received are a grant from the E.D. Foundation; the Robert C. Bates Traveling Fellowship; selection in the Drawing Center Viewing Program; and a residency from the Vermont Studio Center.