Bio
Nate Harris, (b. 1991 in Laurel Springs, New Jersey, USA), is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in New York City. Nate’s work has been shown at venues such as The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Space 1026 (Philadelphia, USA), and KOP Gallery (Antwerp, Belgium). His permanent installations can be seen at the Philadelphia International Airport, Canopy Hotel (Philadelphia, USA) and Bibliotheek Permeke (Antwerp, Belgium), among others. He has participated in art residencies including The Jaunt Residency (2022) and AGA Labs (Printmaking, 2019) in Amsterdam. Nate's commissioned work for clients like Penguin Books (UK), Warby Parker, Target, and Adobe demonstrate his ability to scale his work to meet client needs. In 2023, Nate launched ‘NORA’, a project through which he extends his practice to offer custom wooden name puzzles that blur the lines between sculptural and functional art.
Statement
My earliest memories of working with wood take me back to building skate ramps in my father’s garage—cutting scrapped 2x4s with a miter saw in my bare feet on hot summer days. This desire to build, reuse, and repurpose ultimately led me to abandon a career in graphic design to revisit woodworking as a form of art. I combine the mediums of printmaking, painting, and sculpture with a fearless disregard for traditional methods. I am interested in the iterative process, using wood as a vessel for reincarnation. I recontextualize characters and icons that permeate our culture, sometimes deconstructing them until they become unrecognizable abstractions. Their history is revealed through layers of revisions that form a patina, appearing mysterious and impossible to recreate. This process of systematically creating and destroying my pieces enables me to investigate my own desires for control by embracing chance and serendipity to guide my work and life.
Nate Harris, (b. 1991 in Laurel Springs, New Jersey, USA), is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in New York City. Nate’s work has been shown at venues such as The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Space 1026 (Philadelphia, USA), and KOP Gallery (Antwerp, Belgium). His permanent installations can be seen at the Philadelphia International Airport, Canopy Hotel (Philadelphia, USA) and Bibliotheek Permeke (Antwerp, Belgium), among others. He has participated in art residencies including The Jaunt Residency (2022) and AGA Labs (Printmaking, 2019) in Amsterdam. Nate's commissioned work for clients like Penguin Books (UK), Warby Parker, Target, and Adobe demonstrate his ability to scale his work to meet client needs. In 2023, Nate launched ‘NORA’, a project through which he extends his practice to offer custom wooden name puzzles that blur the lines between sculptural and functional art.
Statement
My earliest memories of working with wood take me back to building skate ramps in my father’s garage—cutting scrapped 2x4s with a miter saw in my bare feet on hot summer days. This desire to build, reuse, and repurpose ultimately led me to abandon a career in graphic design to revisit woodworking as a form of art. I combine the mediums of printmaking, painting, and sculpture with a fearless disregard for traditional methods. I am interested in the iterative process, using wood as a vessel for reincarnation. I recontextualize characters and icons that permeate our culture, sometimes deconstructing them until they become unrecognizable abstractions. Their history is revealed through layers of revisions that form a patina, appearing mysterious and impossible to recreate. This process of systematically creating and destroying my pieces enables me to investigate my own desires for control by embracing chance and serendipity to guide my work and life.
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