Julie Harrison is a New York City-based visual artist whose career-long experimental investigations into intersections of art, science and technology have fueled her most recent project, Landforms and Bodyscapes, a series of abstract drawings that are inspired by coastlines. At NES, she is making drawings based on the map of Iceland. She probes microscopic data culled from online sources and in the end, the drawing contains only hints of the recognizable.
Harrison received an M.A. from New York University and a B.A. from the University of New Mexico. Her work has garnered awards, and she has exhibited widely including group shows at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, Museum of Arts & Design in NYC, The Neuberger Museum/Purchase, among others. Harrison’s work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, The Albuquerque Tribune, and The Village Voice. Two books by Harrison were published by Granary Books, and her work was included in A Book About Colab (And Related Activities) and M/E/A/N/I/N/G: A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues. Artist residencies include Nordic Arts Center Dale, Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Visual Studies Workshop, among others. Her work resides in special collections at The Getty, the Library of Congress, Harvard University, Columbia University, Yale University, and others. For 18 years, Harrison was a professor of art at Stevens Institute of Technology where she founded the Art & Technology B.A. program.
Harrison was recently interviewed by Isaac Mann on ARTMATTERS: The Podcast for Artists, “#52 with Julie Harrison” and she can be reached via her Website and Instagram.