Background
Harris was born in Los Los Angeles
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Kira Harris
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She received her Bachelor in Studio Art from the University of California at Santa Cruz and then her Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts in 1998.
Career
In addition to multiple solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Italy, Canada, and South Africa, Harris has also served as artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2001-2002), the Center for Photography at Woodstock (2004), Saint Mary"s College of Maryland (2005), and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art (2006). Her work has been exhibited at many galleries, including MoMA PS1 and the Miami Art Museum. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Time Out New York, and the Los Angeles Times, among others
Critics have described her work as "minimal," making use of installation, drawing, photography, and video to express "formal concerns of space, light and the phenomenological with issues of individual subjectivity." Of her work, Harris explains, "My projects often provide a disorienting encounter for the viewer: in my installations I am concerned with destabilization and re-orientation.
Harris has stated that her work is influenced by artists like James Turrell, Mark Rothko, and the Hudson River School painters. She also explained, "A lot of my interest in light came from being from Los Angeles, where the light is just everywhere.
You have these huge expanses of sky.”.
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Nationality
African-American