Mark Harris is an artist, writer, and curator. His approaches to making artwork are linked by an interest in the imagery of intoxication as a form of utopian representation and as alternative agency to militant strategies of the historical avant-garde.

In 2005 he received an Arts Council England Fellowship with the Long March Project, Beijing. Exhibitions include “State Fare” (Wexner Center, Columbus, 2007), “Utopian-Bands,” (2 kolegas, Beijing, 2006; and Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, 2008), “Morning Star” (Country Club Gallery, Cincinnati, 2010), “London Open” Whitechapel Gallery, London (2012), “High Times” Wellcome Collection, London (2011), Baltimore Contemporary Museum (2011), “Dial Collect” at SOMArts, San Francisco (2013) and “Sparrow Come Back Home at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (2014). He will be showing at Cherry and Lucic, Portland, in September 2015, and at Root Division, San Francisco, in 2016.

In 2009 he received a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Art Writers Grant. Recent published essays include “Pipilotti Rist's Music” for the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, “Chelsea Hotel, March 14, 2008” on Marcia Farquhar's performance work, “The City Sings,” on Heather Phillipson’s video work, and “Marcia Hafif: Glaze Paintings”. He has contributed an essay to “The Countercultural Experiment: Consciousness and Encounters at the Edge of Art,” 2011 by University of Minnesota Press.