bio + cv
bio
Jamondria Harris is an interdisciplinary artist, poet and composer.Their work uses words, sounds, wires, instruments, textiles & what falls into their hands to engage with blackness, desire, spirit/source, decolonization, fairy tales, & embodiment.their sound art emerges from deep-listening fluidity between rhythm & source, engendering sonic cartographies woven from samples, feedback, the electromagnetic field of bodies & rooms and both digital and analog synthesizer soundscapes.
CV
Education
University of North Texas 2002-2005
Literary Criticism & Theory, Linguistics, Creative Writing
VONA Writing Workshop for Writers of Color Fellow Berekly 2013
Poetry
Home School Poetry Conference Fellow Hudson NY June 2019
Poetry
Exhibitions/Residencies/Performances
Solar Throat: an afrofuturistic/afrosurrealist performance project , 2014
Creator, curator & performer
BCC Brown Hall: black: genius, genus, genesis 2015
Curator/participant in group shows/ performances at Multnomah main downtown library, Compliance/Division gallery, & North Killingsworth Library
holy & broken & rising: black bodies beyond anti-blackness Compliance/Division gallery 2015
Solo show, installation and ritual performance space
black apotrope #1, 2017
Participant, Group show with installations & performance
self: home school pdx group show Cooley gallery Fall 2017
Participant, Group show, prints of digital artwork
black apotrope + kiki nicole at Paragon Arts Gallery February/March 2018
Participant, group show with installation, sculptures, screenprints & art prints of digital work & performance
PICA Sub/Harmonic: a sonic arts symposium March 2018
Participant, panel and sound art performance
Priest/ex Denizen Gallery March-May 2018
solo show with digital artwork prints, multimedia sculptures, experimental sound work & performance
i/C/U: Connection & Control s1 August/September 2018
Participant, group show with digital artwork prints
S 1 Synth Library artist-in-residence October 2018-December 2018
Sound Art Production & Performance
Variform Gallery Spring Series at Disjecta March/April 2019
Sound Art Production & Performance
Switch Artist Residency at The Headwaters Theatre May-August 2019
Sound Art, Multimedia textile sculptures, performance
Laboratory Artist Residency, May 2020
Movement , performance, sound art
Creative Music Guild Improv Summit October 2023
sound, movement
Creative Music Guild Zephyr pop up improv festival June 2023
sound, movement, theremin
Nakatani Music Orchestra session conducted by tatsuya nakatani October 2023
sound, theremin
Quadrophonic Performance of visual score from Marcus Fischer's exhibition 'What was lost and What Remains' at Oregon Contemporary, December 2023
sound, theremin, movement
Publications/Albums
Titan’s Moon poetry chapbook, NightBomb Press 2010
Future Veve/White Lives Black Blood poetry chapbook, 2015 IPRC via BCC:Brown Hall
namepaper poetry chapbook Tea & Coffee Press 2016
quaerere book of poetry & digital artwork Magic Helicopter Press 2018
tabernacle album, self-released, 2018
quaerere companion album to book of poetry & digital artwork, self-released, 2018
jovilabe album, Fallen Moon Recordings, June 2020
Grants/Awards
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art/Andy Warhol Foundation Precipice Fund Round 5
grantee for black apotrope, a multimedia anthology of
black/queer experimental creative processes & tendencies 2017-2018