Biography
Jenny Harris is a PhD candidate specializing in twentieth-century art. Her research explores global modernism with interests in the relationships between abstraction and ornament, dance and visual art, and craft and design. Her writing has appeared in several exhibition catalogues, Artforum, and the New York Times. Before graduate school, she worked as a curatorial assistant at The Museum of Modern Art where she contributed to the reinstallation of the collection galleries, mounted a performance program in conjunction with the exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends (2015), and co-organized the exhibition The Shape of Shape, Artist’s Choice: Amy Sillman. In 2022-3, she worked as a Chicago Objects Study Initiative Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Jenny has a B.A. in Art History from Wellesley College.