Brianna Harlan

Brianna Harlan is a multiform artist and organizer. She works in community intervention and re-contextualized objects to innovate on how sociopolitical identity affects health, selfhood, and community. Her debut solo exhibition was a non commercial showing in New York at Field Projects Gallery. She opened her solo exhibition “Glass House” at Oklahoma State University in January 2022 and “A Collection” at Eastern Kentucky University in February 2022. She has been the artist in residence or fellowship at The Laundromat Project, SECAC, Oxbow, Materia Abierta, and the DreamYard Project. In 2020 she collaborated with 21c museum hotels, 4th wall, and Breonna Taylor’s family to create an augmented reality memorial monument. Brianna has been published in several forms as a voice in cultural activism nationally and internationally, including in ArtNews for her equity in art report. She completed her MFA in Art and Social Action at Queens College and was named a Young Distinguished Alumni by her alma mater, Hanover College. Brianna also works as a creative, community organizer and strategist for several community initiatives around the country including City University of New York’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Incubator and the Studio Museum in Harlem and MoMA’s public programs fellowship.