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Jesse Harrod

b. South Africa; Lives and works in Stockton, NJ

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Jesse Harrod explores embodiment, gender, and sexual identity through, sculpture, installation, video, and drawing.  Harrod builds on herstories of 1970s feminist art to offer queer imaginations of the body, from the abject and the grotesque to the humorous. Their practice most centrally contributes to a broader collective effort to redefine the meaning of queer aesthetic form. Harrod is perhaps most renowned for embracing the material vernacular of macramé using synthetic fibers like paracord, a utility cord devised by the military in the making of parachutes now used for a range of purposes and available in a variety of colors. In 2021, Harrod was commissioned by the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, to make a large sculpture in response to the Kohler’s vast holdings of Wisconsin self-taught artist, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, an artist they first discovered while creating an exhibition at Fleisher/Ollman.

 

Jesse Harrod’s solo exhibitions include Hatch, Bowtie Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Mother Mascots, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada; Flaggin’ 1,2,3, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, New York; Rope, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea; Low Ropes Course, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY; and Toxic Shock and Hotdog, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA among others. In 2019, Fleisher/Ollman presented Mending and Repair in Response, a two person exhibition featuring Harrod and Lisi Raskin. Harrod has been featured in group exhibitions such as In Practice: Material Deviance, SculptureCenter, NY; the traveling exhibition Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, organized by Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY; Even Thread Has a Speech, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; and String Along at Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA. In 2021, Harrod was commissioned by the John Michael Kohler Arts Center to create a work responding to the Eugene Von Bruenchenhein collection in the center's Art Preserve. In 2020, they received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts as well as a Temple University Faculty Award for Creative Achievement. Harrod has been awarded residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center's Art/Industry program; Fire Island Artist Residency; the Open Studio Residency at Haystack Mountain School of Craft; the Icelandic Textile Center; the Vermont Studio Center; Ox-Bow Artist’s Residency; RAIR, Philadelphia; Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity; and Museum of Art and Design, among others. Harrod has an MFA from the Department of Fiber & Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. They are currently the Head of Fibers & Material Studies at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia.



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Exhibitions

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I’ll Be Your Mirror

Jesse Harrod

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Mighty Real/Queer Detroit 2024 Biennial
Detroit, MI
May 31 – Jun 30, 2024

 

On view at Detroit Artists Market and Elaine Jacob Gallery

May 17, 2024

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OFF GRID: Elana Adler, Matt Brett, Jesse Harrod

Jesse Harrod

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SPACE
Portland, ME
Jun 7 – July 18, 2024



Curated by Kelsey Halliday Johnson

May 17, 2024

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Jesse Harrod’s road to macramé through the American South

The Artblog

Jesse Harrod

 

Mar 07, 2023

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Closing Conversation with Jesse Harrod

Join us Saturday, March 11 at 2pm for a conversation with Jesse Harrod on the final day of their exhibition: Tough Nut.

Feb 27, 2023

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Main Line Art Center
Haverford, PA
May 9–Jun 11, 2022

Jesse Harrod
(group)

May 09, 2022

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Independent New York delivers resilience, poignance and power

Wallpaper.com

 

Jesse Harrod

Mar 06, 2020

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Extravagant fiber art and sculpture

Edith Newhall on Mending and Repair in Response in The Philadelphia Inquirer

Oct 04, 2019

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