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. She received a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) 2024 fellowship in painting. Harris is represented by DIMIN and will present her first solo exhibition with the gallery in September 2025. Harris has held solo exhibitions at Peninsula, New York (2024); and Lauren Powell Projects, Los Angeles (2022); as well as group exhibitions at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn; Hauser and Wirth, New York; Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich; and Swivel Gallery, New York. Harris is currently an Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, and holds an MFA from Hunter College, New York.