Profile

Larissa Harris is a curator at the Queens Museum, where she has organized exhibitions including Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center with Damon Rich (2009), which came out of a Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) residency at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies; The Curse of Bigness, which included Dexter Sinister, J Morgan Puett, Survival Research Laboratories and others (2010); the first US museum show of Korean artist Sung Hwan Kim (2011), a major new work with Pedro Reyes, The People’s United Nations (pUN) (2013–14), and a thirty-year retrospective of work by performance group Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) (2014). With critic Patti Phillips, Larissa organized the first survey of the work of Mierle Laderman Ukeles (2016). Between 2004 and 2008, she was associate director of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies; in 2002-3 associate editor at Artforum Magazine, and from 1997-2002, programs associate at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.