born
1977, Blacksburg, Virginia
Lives and works in Hudson, NY

education
2008 MFA, Queens College CUNY, Flushing, NY
1999 BA Studio Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1998 Yale-Norfolk Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT
solo exhibitions
2011 American Kiss, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
  Light Weight, John Davis Gallery - Carriage House, Hudson, NY
2010 Conversations. Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2009 American Kiss. Mooney Center Exhibit Hall, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
2008 Twilight Boys (MFA Thesis). Klapper Gallery, Queens College, Flushing, NY
selected group exhibitions
2012 The Aesthetic of Intimacy, Silber Art Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD (catalog)

In Their Own World, Tache Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi
2011 War: Material and Lies, Time & Space Limited, Hudson, NY
  MYSELF, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV (catalog)
  Member's Exhibit, Rockland Center for the Arts (RoCA), West Nyack, NY
  Of Gods and Monsters (curated auction), igavel.com/Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY, Curated by Andrew Mroczek
2010 Nose to Nose, The Reinstitute, Millerton, NY
  When Girls Were Boys and Boys Were Girls (two-person show), Leslie/Lohman Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Cora Lambert
  Fresh Paint, Rockland Center for the Arts (RoCA), West Nyack, NY, Curated by Lynn Stein
2009 Outside the Lines: New Directions in Drawing, A.D. Gallery, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, NC
  Emerging Artist Auction, igavel.com/Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
  Aspiration/Inspiration @ Wassaic Project Summer Festival, Wassaic, NY, Curated by Nicholas Cohn
  ShapeShifting, Division of Human Works, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Retail Space Available, Gallery 151, New York, NY
  Vote Art, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, Curated by Carina Evangelista
2007 MFA Group Exhibition, City University of New York, Flushing, NY
2002 Are You Interested? Smart Gals Productions, Los Angeles, CA.
  F*CK ROMANCE: New Romanticism in L.A. Coagula Projects, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Chris Sicat
2001 Outside Views, Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, CA
  MAEF Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
  Wagner Show, Los Angeles, CA
  Getty Underground, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
  ARIA, Artplace, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Holly Myers
selected performances & screenings
2011 Drawing Performance, (his)tory labor(atory), Hudson, NY

Drawing Performance, Dis-Commodify, SITE Fest, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Grace Moon and Emma Crandall
2007 Screening, Swimming Lessons (animated short), Think Indie Film, New York, NY
2005 Screening, Sleepwalking (animated short), Think Indie Film, New York, NY
2004 Screening, Sleepwalking, CUNY TV, New York, NY
selected benefit auctions
2011 The Party in Black & White, benefit for Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
2010 Dance Theater Workshop Fresh Tracks Benefit, New York, NY

Glaad OUTauction, New York, NY
2009 NURTUREart Benefit, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
artist talks/teaching
2012 Visiting Critic, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2011 Workshop, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2009 Artist Talk, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
  Artist Talk, College of New Rochelle
  Workshop, Booklyn Artists Alliance, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Workshop, Booklyn Artists Alliance, Brooklyn, NY
  Teaching Assistant to Kurt Kauper (Painting I), Queens College, CUNY
awards & honors
2012 Ora Schneider Residency Grant, Women's Studio Workshop
2011 Puffin Foundation Grant
  Astraea Visual Arts Fund Grant
  Strategic Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts

Pierogi Flat Files, Brooklyn (inclusion)
2009 Drawing Center Viewing Program
2002 E.D. Foundation Grant
2001 Maryland Artists' Equity Foundation Exhibition Award
  Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea (invitation)
1998 Bates Traveling Fellowship (Rome, Italy)
  Ellen Battel Stoekel Fellowship (Yale-Norfolk Summer School of Art)
1997 Maryland Artists' Equity Foundation Exhibition Award
1996 Vermont Studio Center Residency
selected bibliography
2011 Guernica Magazine, Pacific: Gabrielle Calvocoressi Interviews Jen P. Harris, July 15, 2011
  Drawing: Space, Form, and Expression, 4th Edition [reproduction], 2011
  The Arts of New York City (blog), Daniel Cooney Fine Art Features Jen P. Harris 'American Kiss,' by Renata Yvonne, June 7, 2011
2010 The Archive: The Journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, When Girls Were Boys and Boys Were Girls, issue #34, pp. 13-15 [reproduction], by Grace Moon, 2010
  Boog City, When Girls Were Boys and Boys Were Girls [reproduction], March 2010
  The New York Times, Metropolitan, p. 13 [reproduction], for Fresh Paint, January 31, 2010
  The Philadelphia Inquirer, Victoria Donohoe. “Credit card art, emotional oils,” for Conversations, January 22, 2010
2009 Conversations, exhibition brochure, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, by Carina Evangelista, December, 2009
  Contemporary Confections (blog), A Mixed Bag: The Artist Edition I, by Nicole Caruth, November 13, 2009