b. 1993, Chicago, IL
Sylvie Harris’s work uses the shape of domestic garments combined with contemporary and archival photographs to reference the burdens placed on women to maintain the unachievable feminine ideal in the domestic space and beyond. Her photographs are printed on silk and combined with fabric and lace scraps which hang as empty vessels and ghosts of previous generations of seamstresses in her own material lineage. In 2026, Harris received the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Money for Women Grant in Visual Arts, and was a Photography Fellow at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation of the Arts. She received her MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago in 2022 where she was also the 2021 recipient of the Stuart Abelson Graduate Research Fellowship in Krakow, Poland. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including at Art/Space 114 in Los Angeles, California, Women Made Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas, Foreman Gallery at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York and All Street Gallery in New York, New York, among others. Harris’s recent solo exhibitions include “The Ancestry of Home” at Arcade Gallery in Chicago, Illinois, “Lineage of Labor” at Swartley Gallery at Dwight Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey and “Labor” at Korn Gallery at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Harris was born in 1993 in Chicago, Illinois, raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She’s an adjunct professor at Drew University and a photographer for Ryan Lee Gallery.
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