Catherine Harris
Education
- MFA, Stanford University
- MLA, University of California, Berkeley
Research
- Post-human Studies
- Trans-species Studies
- Virtual Reality in Landscape Architecture
Assistant Professor Harris' Visual Portfolio
Catherine Page Harris, Interdisciplinary Assistant Professor, teaches Art and Ecology and Landscape Architecture at the University of New Mexico in a split position with the College of Fine Arts and the School of Architecture and Planning. She received her BA from Harvard University, 1988, MLA from UC Berkeley, 1997, and MFA from Stanford University, 2005. Harris works in art/design, and digital/analog expressions. Her built work resides at Marble House Project, Dorset, VT, Deep Springs College, White Mountains, CA, McCovey Field, SF, CA and The Violin Shop in Albuquerque, NM, among other sites. Recent projects include sharing a drink, using video to create 3D forms based on how animals drink water, and blowing up the dam an investigation through visualization of removing Cochiti Dam on the Rio Grande. Trans-species Repast–sharing meals with animals throughout northern Denmark and Vermont, USA is an exploration of hierarchy, resources and landscape–and Algaeic Infrastructure–a flexible recycled cardboard modular sculpture shown with High Desert Test Site and at the Balloon Museum of Albuquerque developed with Alex Webb and Nina Dubois. Trans-species Repast was recently shown at the UNM Art Museum(2016), the Land Shape Festival (2015) in Hanstholm, DK, Marble House Project, Dorset, VT(2015) and the Wignall Museum, CA, (2014). Current research includes “sharing a drink” at SFAI. Pedagogical foci include systems, virtual reality, and video in landscape architecture, designing for climate change and introducing design skills into art practice.
LA 503: Resilient design and systems in landscape architecture, currently focusing on resilient communities in the arid southwest.
LA 563: Contemporary Theory in Landscape Architecture,
ARTS 141: Intro to Art & Ecology
The Many Challenges of Dining with Animals, Matthew Irwin, 10/8/2015
Exhibition’s meals between animals and humans challenges assumption that we stand atop hierarchy of life, Jackie Jadrnak, Albuquerque Journal North, 10/2/2015
"Art & Ecology, Exploring the origin of Food through art, Edible Santa Fe, 2015
Landscape Research Record No. 2, Morphogenesis in the Landscape 2014
"Media-N," trans-species habitat essay 2013
"Between Ecological Art & Design, Infrastructural Intervention," Arid Journal 2013
"Dipodomys merriami: Desert Rat," Arid Journal 2012
"Trans-species Habitat" ISEA Machine Wilderness Catalog essay 2012
Walking and the Artist Residency or the 21st Century Flaneur, CELA 2009
"Five Stories, a life in art," thesis for Master of Fine Arts 2005
"Chris Grubbs, Illustrator," in Landscape Architecture Magazine 2001
"Dirt on Broadway", thesis for Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture 1997
Sylvan Delta, published by left hand books, NY 1993
Navajo, NM, Red Lake Chapter, Navajo Nation, 2015
Town ScenariosRed Water Pond Road Community, Navajo Nation, 2017
Resilient Community Green School Board, 2014
Cien Aguas International School, Albuquerque, NM Coors and Montano: Community Performance Space, Taylor Ranch Neighborhood Association, 2015
Interim Uses Alvarado and Eastern, Cien Aguas International School, 2014
Proforma and Development plan, Cien Aguas International School, 2014
Coors and Montano: Bosque Interwoven Community, Taylor Ranch Neighborhood Association, 2012
Funded Residency, Marble House Project, Dorset, Vermont 2015
CFA Research Grant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2015
Barrett Honors Thesis External Reviewer, Arizona State University,Herberger Inst. Tempe, AZ, 2015
Wallenberg Studio Reviewer, University of Michigan, School of Architecture, Ann Arbor, MI, 2013
Frontier Fellow Epicenter, Green River, UT 2013
Research Development Grant, with Michaele Pride (PI) and others UNM School of Architecture and Planning, Albuquerque, NM, 2012
CFA Research Grant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2011
PLAND residency with Topo- graphia Collective, PLAND, Tres Piedres, NM, 2010-2011
Arts and Humanities at the LTER, Andrews Experimental Forest, FR 130, Oregon, 2010
Arts and Humanities at the LTER, Workgroup, Estes Park, CO, 2010
Interdisciplinary Research Grant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2010
Foodshed Field School, Bruce Milne (PI) and others, USDA,Albuquerque, NM, 2010-2012
CFA Seed Grant, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico $4,000 Albuquerque, NM, 2010
CFA Research Grant, College of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2009
Murphy Cadogan Award, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA 2004
Funded Residency, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT 2003
Full Fellowship Recipient, Vermont Studio Center,Johnson,VT 2003
Shows and exhibitions
Trans-species Repast, UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM 2016
Trans-species Repast, Landmark, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM 2015
Trans-species Repast, LandShape, LandShape Symposium, North Jutland, DK 2015
Algaeic Infrastructure, Transport, Albuquerque Balloon Museum, Albuquerque, NM 2015
Trans-species Repast, Home ECOnomics, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamunga, CA 2014
Algaeic Infrastructure, High Desert Test Site, Montessa Park, Albuquerque, NM, 2013
Reflection, The Artists’ View, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM 2013
At the Same Table, The Artists’ View, Highland University Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NM 2013
Waterline, Storefront Lab, Deep Craft, San Francisco, CA 2012
Circumnavigation, Transformative Surfaces, UNM Art Museum Albuquerque, NM 2012
Eden Again, ISEA Machine Wilderness, Downtown Action Team Space, Albuquerque, NM 2012
Maquette, Seed Table, Matters Show,The Bakery Collective, Los Angeles, CA 2011
Dipodemys merramai, Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, NM 2011
