One of 25 artist selected for a Project 14C Residency in Jersey City, NJ. During the four month residency I was awarded 1800 square-foot studio that hosted bi-weekly open studio visits with the public. During this residency, I developed my Black_el_Dorado project.

Exhibition Review: jcitytimes.com/splendid-art-at-the-14c-…

Excerpt from curator's statement, Jordan Horton:

The Marité & Joe Robinson Strolling Gallery I features This Was Always a Place, a solo exhibition by Andrew Harrison. Through archives, maps, and embodied movement, Harrison explores altered geographies—dwelling between rupture and repair—and argues for memory, myth, and imagination as essential tools for reshaping the world.

Place can be an unexpectedly complex concept. Places usually include people and an environment along with the culture and social structures they shape. Inhabitants actively create and refine the geographies they experience through various social, political, and material processes. Such placemaking, however, inevitably generates the power dynamics that determine who has rights to a place or how a place is positioned in our personal memories and collective histories.

Multidisciplinary artist Andrew Harrison turns to archive exploration, remapping, performance, and speculation as ways to navigate instances of placemaking. Harrison challenges dominant narratives, uncovers obscured ones, and creates speculative spaces of return and possibility. His works exist in the space between rupture and repair, emphasizing that memory, myth, and imagination are essential tools for reshaping the world.

This exhibition brings together three of Harrison’s series dedicated to navigating resistance, belonging, and the shaping of the past, present, and future. In looking through the lens of the land, Harrison questions how we might reconcile fractured histories and how we might remake the maps—literal and symbolic—that shape understanding.

www.artcenternj.org/this-was-always-a-p…

Black El Dorado

Art Amid Governors Island’s Architectural Decay, by Allison Meier
Hyperallergeric

Governors Island, New York
4Heads.org
Every weekend in September, 2017

Rowan University Art Gallery
Glassboro, New Jersey
March 16 - May 11, 2013
Rowan University: Cosmobilities

Juan Rodrigues: Towards a New City
December 7, 2012 - January 7, 2013
Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ

Governors Island, New York
4Heads.org
Every weekend in September

AiO Exhibit
18 June - 1 July 2011

www.paintedbride.org/events/art-in-the-…

Schuylkill River Banks: Four Days of Making Art Along the River
9 -12 June 2011

www.artintheopenphila.org

NEXUS NJ: Juried Exhibition
October 15 - November 4, 2010

www.rahwayartsguild.org/exhibits.htm#2

A Plan Towards Structural Reorganization: A two-room installation on New York City's Governors Island

www.4heads.org

www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/governor…

The (new)jersey series, along with two additional works completed for the Edge of Intent show, are part of the Museum of Contemporary Photography's permanent collection.

Click to view collection:
collections.mocp.org/info.php?s=andrew+…

BURB:an exhibit of work exploring zones of living

The Edge of Intent,
Artist Talk: May 1 @ 5:30 (MoCP)
www.mocp.org/exhibition/edge-of-intent/

Review of the Show:
www.chicagotribune.com/features/arts/ch…

November 4, 2008 - January 4, 2008

www.poppingpixels.org/2008.asp

On the Road, September 5, 2008 - November 1, 2008.

Museum of Contemporary Photography

Is It Possible to Take a Picture of New Jersey From Anywhere in the World?
6 April 2008 - 25 May 2008
www.pierrogallery.org/exhibitionArchive…