RAiR | 1998

Anne Harris

Anne Harris (1961- ) was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated with a BFA in 1986 from Washington University in St Louis, Missouri and with a MFA in 1988 from Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Harris has exhibited widely from galleries and universities to museums, including the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute. Her work is in such public collections as The Fogg Museum at Harvard, The Yale University Art Gallery and The New York Public Library. From 2006 to 2019 she taught painting and drawing in the BFA and MFA programs of the School of Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. Between 1988 and 2018 Anne held 30 solo exhibitions and authored projects and contributed to over one hundred group shows. She also curated close to twenty shows. In 2017 Anne received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, University of New Haven. She was a finalist across three years for the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the Smithsonian Institute. Grants and awards received include a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an NEA Individual Artists Fellowship. She also is the originator of The Mind’s I, a collaborative drawing project designed to investigate the complexities of perception and self-perception through drawing. She lives with her husband, the photographer Paul D’Amato in Riverside, Illinois. (From RAiR 50th Anniversary Exhibition Catalog, 2017)

Anne Harris’s Website

Roswell Museum and Art Center

Rair exhibition • anne harris “work in progress” • august 22 - october 4, 1998