Jessica Harby

Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Solo Exhibitions
2018 - The Thing or The Oh Noeux Tapestry, ArtSpace, Cambridge, UK.
2016 - YOUR RELUCTANT DIPLOMAT, NN Contemporary Art Project Space, Northampton, UK.
2012 - Pretty Girls Doing Horrid Things, The Artist’s Sanctuary, Northampton, UK.

Group Exhibitions
2024
2024 - Apparition / Aberration / Your Mum, Studio MALARKEY, Northampton, UK.

2019
Artists in Residence at C2C Social Action, NN Contemporary Art Project Space, Northampton, UK.

2018
SHELL LIKE: High On Time The Voicebox Heaved, Artsadmin, London, UK.
Film Free & Easy: Up In The Air, Primary, Nottingham, UK.
InCase.6: Shield, Intercession, Northampton, UK.
On Being An Artist, Artcore, Derby, UK.

2017
IT'S GONNA BE GREAT, Copeland Gallery, Peckham, UK.
Film Free & Easy: No Laughing Matter, Primary, Nottingham, UK.
Nasty Women, ArtSpace, Cambridge, UK.
Can You Hear Me?, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, fermynwoods.co.uk.
Five Years Season, NN Contemporary Art, Northampton, UK.

2016
LEAVE//REMAIN, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK.
Open Exhibition, City Gallery, Peterborough, UK.

2015
NN Open, NN Contemporary Art, Northampton, UK.
Residual. Transference. Metamorphosis. Condition. Body. Self. Gallery 202, gallery202.co.uk

2014
Why Do We Do This, NN Contemporary Art Project Space, Northampton, UK.

2012
Guests & Hosts, NN Contemporary Art, Northampton, UK.
Houston Fringe Festival, Frenetic Theater, Houston, TX, USA.

Residencies
August 2017 - Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK. [scheduled]
October 2017 - Caravanserai at Cambridge Artworks, Cambridge, UK. [scheduled]

Collections
NN Contemporary Art, Northampton, UK.
National Roller Derby Museum, Glasgow, UK.
Private collections in the UK and USA.

Other Work
Youth Landscapers Collective: Producer (2023-present); Artist (2023).
Fermynwoods Contemporary Art: Assistant Director (2020-2021); Audience Development Coordinator (2018-2019); Associate Educator (2017-2019).
Document: One of six artists chosen by Contemporary Visual Arts Network East Midlands to represent visual arts practice in the region (2016-present).
Tappa Tappa Tappa: Zine project in collaboration with Amy Pettifer (2012-2017).
Voices of the Fire: Arts project for young people excluded from traditional education, through Northamptonshire County Council (2013-14).
Northampton Youth Arts Collective: Associate artist (2013).
Rookiemag.com: Illustration (2011-12).