Jesse Harrod

Jesse Harrod has an MFA from the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at 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 and Material Studies at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Harrod’s practice explores embodiment, gender, and sexual identity. Working with multiple media forms and materials, their work builds on herstories of 1970s feminist art to offer queer imaginations of the body, from the abject and the grotesque to the humorous.

Harrod’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, including In Practice: Material Deviance at the SculptureCenter in New York, the traveling exhibition Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, Haptic Tactics at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York, Even Thread Has a Speech at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, and Hatch at the Bowtie Project in Los Angeles. Harrod has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell Artist Colony, The Fire Island Artist’s Residency, the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, the Museum of Art and Design, and the Icelandic Textile Center, among others. Their work appears in Queer Holdings (Hirmer Publications), a book-length catalog to accompany the exhibition Queer Threads, and Low Ropes Course (Publication Studio: Hudson).