Background
Harry Dodge was born in 1966 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Harry Dodge
Harry Dodge with his spouse, writer Maggie Nelson.
Harry Dodge was born in 1966 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Harry Dodge received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 2002.
Harry Dodge became popular at the beginning of the 1990s when he took part at the foundation and activity of San Francisco’s performance space Red Dora's Bearded Lady Coffeehouse. It contributed to the development of queer, DIY literary and arts scene in the community. Involved in the space, Dodge created and directed a number of monologue-based performances, such as ‘Muddy Little River’ (1996) and ‘From Where I'm Sitting (I Can Only Reach Your Ass)’ (1997).
At the end of the decade, Dodge appeared in a narrative feature movie both as a co-author and actor, ‘By Hook or By Crook’, which was demonstrated for the first time at 2002 the Sundance Film Festival.
Beginning in 2004, Harry Dodge began his collaboration with an artist Stanya Kahn. During four subsequent years, they produced a number of video works many of which received positive reviews.
Dodge’s artworks have been demonstrated around the United States and abroad, including the 2008 Whitney Biennial, the 2014 "Made in L.A." Biennial at the Hammer Museum, ‘California Video’ at the Getty Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and various art spaces in Germany, United Kingdom, and Lithuania. One of the recent solo shows of the artist is 2019 ‘Harry Dodge: User’ at Callicoon Fine Arts Gallery in New York City.
Nowadays, Dodge teaches at the School of Art at California Institute of the Arts. His debut non-fiction book, ‘My Meteorite, or Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing’, is expected to be published in 2020 by Penguin Press.
Harry Dodge is an accomplished visual artist whose interdisciplinary distinctive experiments are recognized by the art community.
His works are acquired in the collections of Hammer Museum and Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Dodge’s 2006 video collaboration with Stanya Kahn, ‘Can't Swallow It, Can't Spit It Out’, is a part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
Dodge’s 2012 solo exhibition, ‘Frowntown’, held at Wallspace Gallery in New York City was placed at the second place in the list of Top 10 Shows of the year by Whitney Kimball at Art Fag City.
In 2017, Dodge received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Dissolve Me + The Love Between
My Glassy Essence (Shame in The Cybernetic Fold)
Every Day Carry
Electric Skin/Rat Salad (the inhuman is not what it used to be)
My Machine
Emergency Weapons Grouping
Distinction is Perfect Continence
The Imperfective
The Excluded Middle
Black Transparency
Invisible Helpers
What Doesn't Come To Me From Me Has Come To The Wrong Address
Frottage in Dreamtime
Harry Dodge is a member of the California Institute of the Arts.
Harry Dodge is married to a writer Maggie Nelson. They have a son Iggy, and Dodge’s son from a previous marriage.
Dodge and Nelson consider themselves as a queer couple.
