Born in 1976 in Santa Rosa, California, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA

Zach HARRIS

Zach Harris’s carved panels and stretched linen paintings unfold complex utopian and dystopian worlds. His psychedelic visions, which almost verge on abstraction, immerse viewers in the unfathomable depths of mysterious cosmologies. The art-historical density of his aesthetics is haunting, in a sense similar to that of late-nineteenth-century symbolism. While the bright coloring of his obsessively detailed paintings is reminiscent of the highly demanding ornamental quality of Persian miniatures, his intricate hand- or laser-engraved frames evoke the elaborate woodwork of Christian altarpieces. Harris is a fervent practitioner of meditation, and the meticulous repetition of painted or carved patterns and motifs within his compositions operates like a mantra. At the same time, it creates a hallucinatory play between the materiality of the relief and its optical illusion, bringing to mind the radial vibrancy and spiritual dimension of Tibetan mandalas. His syncretic art suggests timeless rituals, which, whether lost or prescient, have yet to be deciphered.

Harris’s work is included in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, among others.

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education

2006
MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY

1999
BA, Bard College, Red Hook, NY

solo shows

2024
- Zach Harris: Drawings 2023, TOA Presents, Minneapolis, MN, USA 

2023
- Spiral Bound, Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2021
- Zero Hour, Perrotin, New York, NY, USA

2019
- Studies for 20/20, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2018
- Sunset Strips to Soul, Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea

2017
- Purple Cloud, Perrotin, Paris, France

2015
- Must Chill, Feuer/Mesler Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2013
- Echo Parked In A No Vex Cave, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Central Park In A No Vex Cave, Zach Feuer, New York, NY, USA

2009
- Requiem Reversals, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Light Rain Cast No Shadow, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, USA

2007
- Pagan Dirt, Never Work Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2005
- Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME, USA

2003
- Diamentina Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA

group shows

2023
- MINDFIELD, curated by Lawrence Rinder, Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2022
Group exhibition, curated by Chris Johanson, Altman Siegal, San Francisco, CA, USA

2017
- Please fasten your seat belt as we are experiencing some turbulence, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China

2015
- Unorthodox, curated by Jens Hoffman, Kelly Taxter and Daniel S. Palmer, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA
- Death Ship: Tribute to H.C. Westermann, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Deep Dark Submersion, curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

2014
- Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

2013
- Tapping the Third Realm, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2012
- Made in L.A, 2012, organized by the Hammer Museum and LAXART, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- A Perfect Die, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- More and Different Flags, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2011
- Brian Calvin, Charles Garabedian, Zach Harris, John McAllister, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- New Age End of the World, Taxter and Spengemann Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Shape of the Problem, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
- Midnight at Malibu: a nocturnal survey of contemporary Los Angeles artists, Meulensteen Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2010
- The Alchemy of Things Unknown, Leila Khastoo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Painting Comes Alive, Art Jail, New York, NY, USA
- June Gloom, Country Club Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2008
- Implant, organized by The Horticultural Society of New York, The UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2004
- Visionaries, The Makor Institute, New York, NY, USA

2003
- Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2001
- After Image, The New York Studio School Gallery, New York, NY, USA

public collections

- Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
- Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Princeton University Museum, Princeton, NJ
- Rachofsky Collection, Dallas, TX
 

  • March 4, 2021
    Metal Magazine — 9 PAGES

  • March 1, 2021
    Autre — 4 PAGES

  • July 21, 2018
    S Magazine — 3 PAGES

  • July 5, 2018
    BLOUINARTINFO — 1 PAGE

  • February 1, 2018
    Art & Deal — 8 PAGES

"I FEEL THE WAY YOU FEEL" AT PERROTIN SHANGHAI

"I FEEL THE WAY YOU FEEL" AT PERROTIN SHANGHAI

Zach HARRIS

Zach Harris in Conversation with Lauren Mackler

Zach Harris in Conversation with Lauren Mackler

Zach HARRIS

"ZERO HOUR" AT PERROTIN NEW YORK

"ZERO HOUR" AT PERROTIN NEW YORK

Zach HARRIS

Zach HARRIS “Purple Cloud”, Perrotin Paris

Zach HARRIS “Purple Cloud”, Perrotin Paris

Zach HARRIS

PERROTIN

Closed for installation

Perrotin Los Angeles is closed for installation through Friday, April 5.

We look forward to welcoming you at our next exhibition, Art 2 by MSCHF. Join us at the opening on Saturday, April 6, 2024 between 3pm to 8pm! The exhibition will continue through June 1.
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