Annis Harrison
Annis Harrison is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in London.
Of Swedish and Jamaican heritage, she adopted the UK as home after attending St Martins Art College.
Through various projects she seek to explore how her personal history together with her Caribbean heritage intersects with the wider diasporic experience. She is interested in exposing what has been lost, hidden, and stripped away. Looking at often fleeting, often unrecognised moments like tears in the fabric of British colonialist culture.
EDUCATION
BA Hons degree in Painting at Central St Martins 1996
Advance photography at Central St Martins 1997
Computer animation at Central St martins 1998
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO SHOWS
Jan 23 Duppy Dance Quench Gallery, Margate
Oct 21. Mamma's black heroes BMECP centre, Brighton
Oct 20 I can’t see myself V.O curations, Marylebone Rd, London
May 17 Forbidden Fruit Pop up Ceramics, Camden, London
Mar 16 New Ceramics Pop up Gallery, New Ceramics, Bastille, Paris, France
Mar 00 One Woman Show Galleria Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.
GROUP SHOWS
Sep 24. Cubitt invites Cubitt gallery and Studios, London
Jun 24 Reframing The Muse Kendrew Barn, St John's collage, Oxford
Apr 24 Blink, room share 5 Safe House, London
Nov 23 Tableaux:Painting as a stage Terrace Gallery, London
Sep 23 Hospital room - Holding space Bonhams Auction house & Hauserwirth, London
Dec 22. Collectivist Copeland gallery, London
Oct 22 Power To Emotion Tart Gallery, London
Sep 22 Cubitt30 Victoria Miro, London
Sep 22 Cubitt30 Vortic
Aug 22 Celebrating LGBTQ+ heroes past and present Ledward Centre, Brighton
Mar 22 Our New World Fora Spitalfelds, London
Feb 22 The will to form The Copeland Gallery, London
Jan 22 Radiance Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London
Jan 22 Assemble V.O Curations, London
Oct 21 Among other beautiful black made things. Black pound shop, London
Oct 21 The Black Lives Matter UK Virtual gallery
Aug 21 Queer Heterotopia Ledward Centre/Online exhibition, Brighton
July 21 Every woman biennial London Copeland Gallery, London
May 21 Unity art project GowithYamoVirtual,unity art project online auction
Apr 21 Hidden Hues Proportions Studios gallery, London
Feb 21 Work inspired by love AucArt, online show
Oct 20 What does Black Art mean to you? Lyric square, Hammersmith, London
Sep 19 Queering the Art Classroom Sutton house, Hackney, London
July 19 RIOT SOUP Residency HArts lane gallery, New Cross, London
Jun 11 Here Now Pop up, Camden Town, London
Oct 08 Stolen Hours Novas Gallery, Camden Town, London
Nov 08 Permanent Collection Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool
Jun 08 Arlington Sculpture Studio summer show Novas Gallery, Camden Town, London
Dec 07 Outsiders art Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, London Bridge, London
Apr 00 Photospin The Photographers Gallery, Newport Street, London
Aug 99 Totort Amies Group show, Bastille, Paris, France
Aug 97 Peripheral Visionary Group show, De Fabriek, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Oct 96 No Alternative Girls ICA group show, Slovenia
Jun 96 Arte Viva Senegalia, Italy
Jan 96 Pull in, Fill up Church Street Gallery, Camberwell, London
Mar 95 Young Artists Cohn K Wolfe, Southampton Row, London
DIGITAL DESIGN
Aug 95 – Feb 99 Music promos director Warp Records, for Red Snapper
Record cover designer Warp Records for Red Snapper: Prince Blimey, Loopa scoopa, Mooking.
Record cover designer Glasgow Underground: Jersey Street
CURATION
Sep 24 The Journey Cubitt studio 5, Islington, London
Oct 08 Stolen hours Novas Gallery, Camden Town, London
Jun 08 Arlington Sculpture Novas Gallery, Camden Town, London
Studio summer show
JUDGE Festival Commissions Deptford X 2022
ART / PHOTO / DESIGN TEACHER (A level)
Sep 21 Haverstock school
Sep 10 Mill Hill County High School
COMMUNITY ARTS FACILITATOR
Sep 06 – Feb 09 Photography, digital arts, painting, sculpture.
PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
Power list 2025, Britain’s Most influential men and Women of African, African Caribbean and African American Heritage.
Shade art review, Annis Harrison with guest exhibitors, Chris Ofili and Siphiwe Mnguni
Observer, How Contemporary Women Artists Are Reframing the Muse, 2024
FAD magazine, Reframing the Muse 2024
Social Justice Art of the Twenties vol 1, 2023
FAD magazine, Check out the new gallery showing all female artists run by women 2022
Art Seen, 2022
Wallpaper, Every Woman Biennial is a transatlantic triumph, 2021
The Face, Black Art Matters protesters calling for change, 2020
The Metro ,Art Matters: Meet the creatives demanding better representation in UK galleries, 2020