Nate Harrison

Background

About Nate Harrison

Nate Harrison is an academic and artist working at the intersection of intellectual property, cultural production and the formation of creative processes in modern media. His work has been exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Kunstverein in Hamburg, among others. Nate has several publications current and forthcoming, and has also lectured at a variety of institutions, including Experience Music Project, Seattle, the Art and Law Program, New York and SOMA Summer, Mexico City. From 2004-2008 he co-directed the Los Angeles project space ESTHETICS AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. Nate is the recipient of the Kunstmuseum Bonn's Videonale Prize as well as the Hannah Arendt Prize in Critical Theory and Creative Research from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Nate earned his doctorate from the University of California, San Diego where he studied under Professor Grant Kester. Nate also received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan and a Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts. Nate serves as Dean of Academic Affairs/Faculty as well as Professor of the Practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.