2020-Present Assistant Professor, Head of Sculpture, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
2017-2020. Assistant Professor in Sculpture Intermedia (Non Tenure-Track), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
EDUCATION
2017 MFA Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014 BFA Sculpture and Latin American Studies, Purchase College, State University New York, Purchase, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020, Penthouse, “Never an hour for thought”, San Francisco, CA (Postponed)
2019-20, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, “Never an hour for thought”, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, Künstlerhaus Hotel Pfaelzer Hof, "Pillars of the Facade", Idar-Oberstein, Germany
2018, Nox Contemporary, "New Luxury Art Show in Downtown Salt Lake", Salt Lake City, UT
2018, Adler & Floyd, "Poor Kelsey Harrison...where have you been?", Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, “Shady Acres”, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, Provo Studios, “MGNT Exhibit: dis|place”, Provo, UT
2018-19, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, "Site Lines", Salt Lake City, UT
2018-9, Wassaic Project, "Summer Exhibition", Wassaic, NY
2018, Studio 106LA, “Unstitched Resources”, Santa Monica, CA
2018, Flatland Gallery, "Dangerous Professors", Houston, TX
2017, Open House Contemporary, “Infinite Games 50/50”, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, IL
2017, Hyde Park Art Center, “The Biography of a Thing”, Chicago, IL
2017, Silent/Funny, “A I R TIGHT”, Chicago, IL
2017, Ballroom Projects, “Cantering Loop”, Chicago, IL
2017, Collabo, “Our Rooms Share A Wall”, Chicago, IL
2017, Sullivan Galleries, “MFA Show 2017”, Chicago IL
2016, Public Access, "A Momentary Lapse of Reason", Chicago, IL
2016, Iridium, “Sap”, Chicago, IL
2015, Essex Flowers, “Cupid’s”, New York, NY
2015, The College of William and Mary, "109 Years Since the Jungle", Williamsburg, VA
2015, Knockdown Center, "Bloomsday", Maspeth, NY
2015, Glasshouse, "Sharing is Caring/Hatred of Solitude", Brooklyn, NY
2015, The College of William and Mary, "Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World", Williamsburg, VA
2014, The Jewish Museum, "The Wind Up: Alphabet Party ", New York, NY
2014, Gallery 1989, "Metaphysician, Heal Thyself", Larchmont, NY
2014, Purchase College, “Metaphysician, Heal Thyself”, Purchase, NY
2014, "Figment", Governors Island, New York, NY
2014, Abrons Art Center, "Premium Quality", New York, NY
2013, "Figment", Boston, MA
2012, Forum Art Space, "I Should Have Been", Purchase, NY
2012, Forum Art Space, "Fuck You, I’ll See You Tomorrow", Purchase, NY
2012, Rock N Roll Gallery, "Piñata Factory", Berkeley, CA
2012, 518 Valencia, "Lotte Arts", San Francisco, CA
2012, Artists Alley, "Pancakes and Booze", San Francisco, CA
2012, Suites Gallery, "Eccentric Abstraction", Purchase, NY
2012, 10 Jay St, "Downtown Cabaret", Brooklyn, NY
2012, The White Room, "House/Home", Purchase, NY
2011, SOMArts, "National Queer Arts Festival", San Francisco, CA
2011, Santa Cruz Rehearsal Studios, "Shop Mix Society", Santa Cruz, CA
2011, Aspect Gallery, "Untitled", San Francisco, CA
2011, The Artists Alley, "LGBTQ Art Show", San Francisco, CA
2007, Ore Projektz, “Innaugural”, Ore Projektz, San Francisco, CA
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
2020 Better Days 2020 Women’s History Monument Public Art Commission, Salt Lake City, UT
2019 Dean’s Travel Fund Award, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2019 Pfaelzer Hof, Idar-Oberstein, Germany
2018 Bet0nest Artist Residency, Angermünde, Germany
2018 Dean’s Travel Fund Award, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2018 Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Studio Residency, Salt Lake City, UT
2017 Wassaic Project Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY
2015 Brooklyn Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ
2014 School of Making Thinking, East Branch, NY
2013 Collaborative Workspace Resident, Miranda Arts Project Space, Port Chester, NY
ACADEMIC AWARDS
2017 Edes Foundation Nomination, Chicago, IL
2017 AICAD Teaching Fellowship Nomination, Oakland, CA
2015-7 John and Mary Hoggins Scholarship, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2014 Purchase College Public Art Grant, Purchase, NY
STUDIO EXPERIENCE
2015 Studio Assistant for Donna Dennis, New York, NY
2014-5 Studio Assistant for Rachel Owens, Brooklyn, NY
2014-5 Model Maker and Wood Shop Manager, KENNEDY FABRICATIONS, New York, NY
2014 Research Assistant for Caroline Woolard, New York, NY
2013 Studio Assistant for Patrick Wilson, San Francisco, CA
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018, Lecturer and Visiting Critic, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
2017, Artist Talk, Sculpture Dialogues, School do the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016, Lecturer and Moderator, Glazed Olympus: Transcendental Urban Architecture, ARCHTHEO '16/10th International Theory and History of Architecture Conference, Istanbul, TR
2016, Lecturer, Glazed Olympus: Transcendental Urban Architecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016, Coordinator and Founder, Theories of Space and Things Reading Group, Chicago, IL
2015, Artist Talk, Sculpture Dialogues, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2015, Lecturer, Tony Hawk Pro Skater: Dummy Muscle Memory, Words & [ ] [sic], The Darling Foundry, Montreal, QC
2015, Performer, Fall to Earth, Aspect-Ratio, Chicago, IL
2015, Performer, Fall to Earth, New Museum, New York, NY
2013, Organizer and Facilitator, Micro-Grant Dinner and Artist Talk, Miranda Arts Project Space, Port Chester, NY
2012, Organizer and Facilitator, Micro-Grant Dinner and Artist Talk, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jacobs, Becky, and Salt Lake Tribune, Inc. “This Women's History Sculpture - of Doorways, Words and Seats at the Table - Will Be Installed in Salt Lake City in 2020.” The Salt Lake Tribune. The Salt Lake Tribune, October 24, 2019.
Deseret News. “Board Oks New Women’s History Sculpture at Council Hall on Capitol Hill.” Deseret News. Deseret News, October 21 2019.
Sharp, Noelle. "University of Utah College of Fine Arts - MAGNIFYING, No. 19: Kelsey Harrison." College of Fine Arts. April 1, 2019. Accessed April 10, 2019. https://www.finearts.utah.edu/news/the-finer-points-blog/item/529-magnifying-no-19-kelsey-harrison.
Blonquist, Maddie. "Defining Suburbia: Two Perspectives at UMOCA." Artists of Utahs 15 Bytes. February 12, 2019. Accessed February 24, 2019. http://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/defining-suburbia-two-perspectives-at-umoca/.
Staff. "UMOCA Announces 5 Unique Exhibits to Kick off 2019." Q Salt Lake Magazine. January 24, 2019. Accessed February 24, 2019. https://qsaltlake.com/news/2019/01/14/umoca-announces-5-unique-exhibits-to-kick-off-2019/.
Myers, Alison. "Sticks and Stones with Kelsey Harrison – Daily Utah Chronicle." Daily Utah Chronicle. January 29, 2019. Accessed February 03, 2019. http://dailyutahchronicle.com/2019/01/27/sticks-and-stones-with-kelsey-harrison/.
Funtanilla, Michaela. "Assistant Professor Transforms Timbers from Historic Hotel into Thoughtful Sculptures." College of Fine Arts. January 14, 2019. Accessed January 22, 2019. https://www.finearts.utah.edu/news/the-finer-points-blog/item/480-assistant-professor-transforms-timbers-from-historic-hotel-into-thoughtful-sculptures.
Staiber, Jörg. "Gastraum Soll Als Galerie Genutzt Werden: Im Früheren Hotel Pfälzer Hof Fühlen Sich Künstler Wohl." Rhein-Zeitung. January 21, 2019. Accessed January 22, 2019. https://www.rhein-zeitung.de/region/lokales/nahe-zeitung_artikel,-gastraum-soll-als-galerie-genutzt-werden-im-frueheren-hotel-pfaelzer-hof-fuehlen-sich-kuenstler-wohl-_arid,1924984.html.
Staiber, Jörg. "Fassadenstützen Zu Skulpturen Verarbeitet: Amerikanische Künstlerin Kelsey Harrison War Zu Gast Im „Pfälzer Hof“." Nahe-Zeitung(Idar-Oberstein), January 4, 2019.
Roka, Les. “Recent SLC Art Happenings: Utah Museum of Fine Arts’ Site Lines.” The Utah Review. October 26, 2018
Wichert, Geoff. “Post-Modern Je Ne Sais Quoi: Kelsey Harrison Nails It at Nox Contemporary.” 15 Bytes, Artists of Utah, 21 Sept. 2018, artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/post-modern-je-ne-sais-quoi-kelsey-harrison-nails-it-at-nox-contemporary/.
“Poor Kelsey Harrison...where Have You Been?” The Visualist, 10 Mar. 2018, www.thevisualist.org/2018/03/poor-kelsey-harrisonwhere-have-you-been/.
Levitt, Aimee. “A ‘Dinner Party’ with no food, only smells.” Chicago Reader. Chicago Reader, 10 Apr. 2017. Web. 15 Apr. 2017.
"VISUALIST." A Momentary Lapse of Reason: Kelsey Harrison, Stephen Lichty, Steve Reinke, Susanne M. Winterling. The Visualist, 10 Nov. 2016. Web. 05 Apr. 2017.
Lisa Jardine. "CREATIVE COLLABORATORS IN PORT CHESTER." . Hometown Media Group, 14 Nov. 2013.
2017-2020. Assistant Professor in Sculpture Intermedia (Non Tenure-Track), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
EDUCATION
2017 MFA Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014 BFA Sculpture and Latin American Studies, Purchase College, State University New York, Purchase, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020, Penthouse, “Never an hour for thought”, San Francisco, CA (Postponed)
2019-20, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, “Never an hour for thought”, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, Künstlerhaus Hotel Pfaelzer Hof, "Pillars of the Facade", Idar-Oberstein, Germany
2018, Nox Contemporary, "New Luxury Art Show in Downtown Salt Lake", Salt Lake City, UT
2018, Adler & Floyd, "Poor Kelsey Harrison...where have you been?", Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, “Shady Acres”, Salt Lake City, UT
2019, Provo Studios, “MGNT Exhibit: dis|place”, Provo, UT
2018-19, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, "Site Lines", Salt Lake City, UT
2018-9, Wassaic Project, "Summer Exhibition", Wassaic, NY
2018, Studio 106LA, “Unstitched Resources”, Santa Monica, CA
2018, Flatland Gallery, "Dangerous Professors", Houston, TX
2017, Open House Contemporary, “Infinite Games 50/50”, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, IL
2017, Hyde Park Art Center, “The Biography of a Thing”, Chicago, IL
2017, Silent/Funny, “A I R TIGHT”, Chicago, IL
2017, Ballroom Projects, “Cantering Loop”, Chicago, IL
2017, Collabo, “Our Rooms Share A Wall”, Chicago, IL
2017, Sullivan Galleries, “MFA Show 2017”, Chicago IL
2016, Public Access, "A Momentary Lapse of Reason", Chicago, IL
2016, Iridium, “Sap”, Chicago, IL
2015, Essex Flowers, “Cupid’s”, New York, NY
2015, The College of William and Mary, "109 Years Since the Jungle", Williamsburg, VA
2015, Knockdown Center, "Bloomsday", Maspeth, NY
2015, Glasshouse, "Sharing is Caring/Hatred of Solitude", Brooklyn, NY
2015, The College of William and Mary, "Capitalist Architecture in a Posthumanist World", Williamsburg, VA
2014, The Jewish Museum, "The Wind Up: Alphabet Party ", New York, NY
2014, Gallery 1989, "Metaphysician, Heal Thyself", Larchmont, NY
2014, Purchase College, “Metaphysician, Heal Thyself”, Purchase, NY
2014, "Figment", Governors Island, New York, NY
2014, Abrons Art Center, "Premium Quality", New York, NY
2013, "Figment", Boston, MA
2012, Forum Art Space, "I Should Have Been", Purchase, NY
2012, Forum Art Space, "Fuck You, I’ll See You Tomorrow", Purchase, NY
2012, Rock N Roll Gallery, "Piñata Factory", Berkeley, CA
2012, 518 Valencia, "Lotte Arts", San Francisco, CA
2012, Artists Alley, "Pancakes and Booze", San Francisco, CA
2012, Suites Gallery, "Eccentric Abstraction", Purchase, NY
2012, 10 Jay St, "Downtown Cabaret", Brooklyn, NY
2012, The White Room, "House/Home", Purchase, NY
2011, SOMArts, "National Queer Arts Festival", San Francisco, CA
2011, Santa Cruz Rehearsal Studios, "Shop Mix Society", Santa Cruz, CA
2011, Aspect Gallery, "Untitled", San Francisco, CA
2011, The Artists Alley, "LGBTQ Art Show", San Francisco, CA
2007, Ore Projektz, “Innaugural”, Ore Projektz, San Francisco, CA
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
2020 Better Days 2020 Women’s History Monument Public Art Commission, Salt Lake City, UT
2019 Dean’s Travel Fund Award, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2019 Pfaelzer Hof, Idar-Oberstein, Germany
2018 Bet0nest Artist Residency, Angermünde, Germany
2018 Dean’s Travel Fund Award, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2018 Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Studio Residency, Salt Lake City, UT
2017 Wassaic Project Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY
2015 Brooklyn Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ
2014 School of Making Thinking, East Branch, NY
2013 Collaborative Workspace Resident, Miranda Arts Project Space, Port Chester, NY
ACADEMIC AWARDS
2017 Edes Foundation Nomination, Chicago, IL
2017 AICAD Teaching Fellowship Nomination, Oakland, CA
2015-7 John and Mary Hoggins Scholarship, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2014 Purchase College Public Art Grant, Purchase, NY
STUDIO EXPERIENCE
2015 Studio Assistant for Donna Dennis, New York, NY
2014-5 Studio Assistant for Rachel Owens, Brooklyn, NY
2014-5 Model Maker and Wood Shop Manager, KENNEDY FABRICATIONS, New York, NY
2014 Research Assistant for Caroline Woolard, New York, NY
2013 Studio Assistant for Patrick Wilson, San Francisco, CA
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018, Lecturer and Visiting Critic, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
2017, Artist Talk, Sculpture Dialogues, School do the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016, Lecturer and Moderator, Glazed Olympus: Transcendental Urban Architecture, ARCHTHEO '16/10th International Theory and History of Architecture Conference, Istanbul, TR
2016, Lecturer, Glazed Olympus: Transcendental Urban Architecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016, Coordinator and Founder, Theories of Space and Things Reading Group, Chicago, IL
2015, Artist Talk, Sculpture Dialogues, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2015, Lecturer, Tony Hawk Pro Skater: Dummy Muscle Memory, Words & [ ] [sic], The Darling Foundry, Montreal, QC
2015, Performer, Fall to Earth, Aspect-Ratio, Chicago, IL
2015, Performer, Fall to Earth, New Museum, New York, NY
2013, Organizer and Facilitator, Micro-Grant Dinner and Artist Talk, Miranda Arts Project Space, Port Chester, NY
2012, Organizer and Facilitator, Micro-Grant Dinner and Artist Talk, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jacobs, Becky, and Salt Lake Tribune, Inc. “This Women's History Sculpture - of Doorways, Words and Seats at the Table - Will Be Installed in Salt Lake City in 2020.” The Salt Lake Tribune. The Salt Lake Tribune, October 24, 2019.
Deseret News. “Board Oks New Women’s History Sculpture at Council Hall on Capitol Hill.” Deseret News. Deseret News, October 21 2019.
Sharp, Noelle. "University of Utah College of Fine Arts - MAGNIFYING, No. 19: Kelsey Harrison." College of Fine Arts. April 1, 2019. Accessed April 10, 2019. https://www.finearts.utah.edu/news/the-finer-points-blog/item/529-magnifying-no-19-kelsey-harrison.
Blonquist, Maddie. "Defining Suburbia: Two Perspectives at UMOCA." Artists of Utahs 15 Bytes. February 12, 2019. Accessed February 24, 2019. http://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/defining-suburbia-two-perspectives-at-umoca/.
Staff. "UMOCA Announces 5 Unique Exhibits to Kick off 2019." Q Salt Lake Magazine. January 24, 2019. Accessed February 24, 2019. https://qsaltlake.com/news/2019/01/14/umoca-announces-5-unique-exhibits-to-kick-off-2019/.
Myers, Alison. "Sticks and Stones with Kelsey Harrison – Daily Utah Chronicle." Daily Utah Chronicle. January 29, 2019. Accessed February 03, 2019. http://dailyutahchronicle.com/2019/01/27/sticks-and-stones-with-kelsey-harrison/.
Funtanilla, Michaela. "Assistant Professor Transforms Timbers from Historic Hotel into Thoughtful Sculptures." College of Fine Arts. January 14, 2019. Accessed January 22, 2019. https://www.finearts.utah.edu/news/the-finer-points-blog/item/480-assistant-professor-transforms-timbers-from-historic-hotel-into-thoughtful-sculptures.
Staiber, Jörg. "Gastraum Soll Als Galerie Genutzt Werden: Im Früheren Hotel Pfälzer Hof Fühlen Sich Künstler Wohl." Rhein-Zeitung. January 21, 2019. Accessed January 22, 2019. https://www.rhein-zeitung.de/region/lokales/nahe-zeitung_artikel,-gastraum-soll-als-galerie-genutzt-werden-im-frueheren-hotel-pfaelzer-hof-fuehlen-sich-kuenstler-wohl-_arid,1924984.html.
Staiber, Jörg. "Fassadenstützen Zu Skulpturen Verarbeitet: Amerikanische Künstlerin Kelsey Harrison War Zu Gast Im „Pfälzer Hof“." Nahe-Zeitung(Idar-Oberstein), January 4, 2019.
Roka, Les. “Recent SLC Art Happenings: Utah Museum of Fine Arts’ Site Lines.” The Utah Review. October 26, 2018
Wichert, Geoff. “Post-Modern Je Ne Sais Quoi: Kelsey Harrison Nails It at Nox Contemporary.” 15 Bytes, Artists of Utah, 21 Sept. 2018, artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/post-modern-je-ne-sais-quoi-kelsey-harrison-nails-it-at-nox-contemporary/.
“Poor Kelsey Harrison...where Have You Been?” The Visualist, 10 Mar. 2018, www.thevisualist.org/2018/03/poor-kelsey-harrisonwhere-have-you-been/.
Levitt, Aimee. “A ‘Dinner Party’ with no food, only smells.” Chicago Reader. Chicago Reader, 10 Apr. 2017. Web. 15 Apr. 2017.
"VISUALIST." A Momentary Lapse of Reason: Kelsey Harrison, Stephen Lichty, Steve Reinke, Susanne M. Winterling. The Visualist, 10 Nov. 2016. Web. 05 Apr. 2017.
Lisa Jardine. "CREATIVE COLLABORATORS IN PORT CHESTER." . Hometown Media Group, 14 Nov. 2013.