Small School Artist Talks: Ellen Harvey

Ellen Harvey is a British-born artist whose work ranges from guerrilla street interventions such as her iconic New York Beautification Project, for which she painted miniature landscapes over New York’s graffiti sites; immersive institutional installations; and large-scale public artworks. She has exhibited extensively in the US and internationally, including in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Her exhibition The Disappointed Tourist at Turner Contemporary was selected by Frieze as one of the five best institutional shows in the UK in 2021.

She is a graduate of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program, Yale Law School, and Harvard College, and attended the Berlin Hochschule der Künste. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Smithsonian Artists Research Fellowship, the Wivina Demeester Prize for Commissioned Public Art, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

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Image: Courtesy of the artist