Jen P Harris (Brooklyn and Hudson, NY) makes formally driven paintings and works on paper that explore ideas about gender, sexual identity, and the self and other.  Harris received her MFA from Queens College, City University of New York, and her BA from Yale University.  She has had solo exhibitions at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (Wilmington), the Mooney Center Exhibit Hall at The College of New Rochelle (New Rochelle, NY); Paul Klapper Gallery, Queens College, City University of New York (Flushing); and Studio 56 (New Haven, CT). Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions at venues including the Rockland Center for the Arts (West Nyack, NY), the Summer Festival in Wassaic, NY; Gallery 151 (New York, NY); Coagula Projects and The Getty Center (Los Angeles, CA); and Antelope Valley College (Lancaster, CA). Among the awards she has received are a grant from the E.D. Foundation, the Robert C. Bates Traveling Fellowship; selection in the Drawing Center Viewing Program; the Maryland Artists Equity Foundation Exhibition Award; and a residency from the Vermont Studio Center.