Harrell Fletcher

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Harrell Fletcher

Born	1967 Santa Maria, California
Nationality	American
Field	drawing, video, Net art, and performance
Training	San Francisco Art Institute, BFA, Photography, 1990. California College of Arts and Crafts, MFA, Interdisciplinary, 1994. UCSC Certification in Ecological Horticulture 1996
Movement	Social practice
Works	Learning To Love You More
Awards	The Creative Work Fund, Creative Capital, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the California Arts Council, and the 2005 Alpert Awards in the Arts.

Harrell Fletcher is an artist in Portland, Oregon who creates socially engaged interdisciplinary projects.^[1]

1 Early Work
2 Teaching and Awards
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Early Work

While completing his degree at CCAC, Fletcher began collaborating with artist Jon Rubin. The two secured a space in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland where they began to create exhibitions about the neighborhood using neighborhood residents to help create the shows. The two would go on to collaborate for several years afterward.

[edit] Teaching and Awards

Harrell now is on the faculty of Portland State University^[2] in the Art Department where he recently developed an Art and Social Practice emphasis for the Masters of Fine Arts in Contemporary Arts^[3]. He has exhibited at SF MoMA, the de Young Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF, Real Art Ways in Hartford, The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park and Smackmellon in NYC, DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture Show in Houston, PICA in Portland, OR, CoCA in Seattle, WA, and Signal in Malmo, Sweden. Fletcher is represented in San Francisco by Jack Hanley Gallery, and in NYC by Christine Burgin Gallery. He was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2002 Fletcher started Learning To Love You More, a participatory web site with Miranda July. Harrell has also won the 2005 Alpert Awards in the Arts in Visual Arts^[4]