| Harrell Fletcher | |
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| 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 (*1967) is an American artist in Portland, Oregon who creates socially engaged interdisciplinary projects.[1]
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While completing his degree at California College of Arts and Crafts, 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. Wrote poem I Want You To Smell Me.
Fletcher is on the faculty of the Portland State University Department of Art.[2] 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. He has also won the 2005 Alpert Awards in the Arts in Visual Arts.[3]