Harrell Fletcher

Harrell Fletcher was born in 1967 in Santa Maria, California and attended Santa Maria High School.{{Cite news|url=https://santamariatimes.com/lifestyles/breaking-the-mold-internationally-renowned-artist-harrell-fletcher-leaps-from/article_ab4cf155-1219-516c-9134-254f93c81ca1.html|title=Breaking the Mold: Internationally renowned artist Harrell Fletcher leaps from film to sculpture to painting to photography to …|last=Fairchild|first=Britt|date=2005|work=Santa Maria Times|access-date=2018-11-25|language=en}} Fletcher received his B.F.A. in 1990 from the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and his M.F.A. in 1994 from California College of the Arts (CCA).{{Cite web|url=http://www.abladeofgrass.org/people/abogauthor/|title=Our Authors|website=a blade of grass|access-date=2016-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125115657/http://www.abladeofgrass.org/people/abogauthor/|archive-date=2018-11-25|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.vdb.org/artists/harrell-fletcher|title=Harrell Fletcher|website=Video Data Bank|access-date=2016-04-06}} At CCA, Fletcher studied under Suzanne Lacy.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} In 1995, Fletcher completed an apprenticeship at UCSC at the farm, studying ecological horticulture.{{Cite web|url=http://art.ucsc.edu/galleries/collective-museum|title=Collective Museum 2016 {{!}} art.ucsc.edu|date=2016|website=Art Department, UC Santa Cruz|language=en|access-date=2018-11-25}}

In 2007, Fletcher founded the Art + Social Practice Program in the School of Art + Design at Portland State University, where he is still on faculty.{{Cite news|url=https://hyperallergic.com/337470/use-this-draft-book-review-social-medium-by-paper-monument/|title=Parsing a Would-Be Canon of Recent Artists' Writings|date=2016-11-28|work=Hyperallergic|access-date=2018-11-25|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-social-practice-art-meets-market|title=What Happens When Social Practice Art Meets the Market?|last=Carrigan|first=Margaret|date=2017-08-30|work=Artsy|access-date=2018-11-25|language=en}}

His fellow CCA student Jon Rubin, and Fletcher collaborated for several years in the Bay Area following the completion of his M.F.A., and together creating Gallery Here in nearby Oakland. Gallery Here was in a vacant storefront in their Oakland neighborhood and it hosted neighborhood centered art exhibitions for a year. The artists produced collaborative projects that occurred in non-traditional and municipally-managed art spaces. Fletcher became known for making projects in collaboration with strangers and non-artists.

With artist Miranda July, Fletcher founded the online arts project called Learning to Love You More (2002–2009). The project's website offered assignments to artists whose submissions became part of "an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world".{{Cite web |url=http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/hello/index.php |title=Hello |author=Yuri Ono (designer) |year=2009 |publisher=Miranda July; Harrell Fletcher |work=Learningtoloveyoumore.com |accessdate=27 June 2012 }} In addition to its internet presentations, Learning to Love You More has been compiled for exhibitions for the Whitney Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, and other hosts.{{Cite web |url=http://www.kcai.edu/events/current-perspectives-lecture-series/spring-2009 |title=Current Perspectives lecture series, Spring 2009: Harrell Fletcher |author=KCAI |year=2009 |publisher=Kansas City Art Institute |work=Kcai.edu |accessdate=27 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323020439/http://www.kcai.edu/events/current-perspectives-lecture-series/spring-2009 |archive-date=23 March 2012 }} A book version of the project's online art was released in 2007.{{Cite book |title=Learning to Love You More |last=July |first=Miranda |author2=Fletcher, Harrell |year=2007 |publisher=Prestel |location=Munich; New York |isbn=978-3791337333 |oclc=171112007 }} The project is now part of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Collection.[http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/134671 "Learning to Love you More, Collection Page"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511190132/http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/134671 |date=2015-05-11 }} San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Accessed 12 October 2016

From 2010–2017, Fletcher co-curated with Jens Hoffmann the People's Biennial.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/interviews/harrell-fletcher-talks-about-his-recent-projects-24809|title=Interviews: Harrell Fletcher|last=O’Neill-Butler|first=Lauren|date=2010|website=Artforum|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-25}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2017/12/07/jens-hoffmanns-suspension-sexual-harassment-claims-institutions-await-fate/|title=After Jens Hoffmann's Suspension Over Sexual Harassment Claims, Other Institutions Await His Fate|last=Battaglia|first=Andy|date=2017-12-07|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-25|quote=Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary of Art has now suspended Hoffmann from involvement in its upcoming People’s Biennial (2018)}} The People’s Biennial explored and presented the creative activities of individuals and collectives as expressions of society’s cultural diversity that would otherwise be overlooked, neglected, or even actively repressed.{{Cite news|url=https://hyperallergic.com/171568/a-biennial-beyond-the-art-world/|title=A Biennial Beyond the Art World|last=Sharp|first=Sarah Rose|date=2014-12-29|work=Hyperallergic|access-date=2018-11-25|language=en-US}}

Starting in 2014,{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} Fletcher co-founded with Portland State University (PSU) faculty Lisa Jarrett, the King School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMOCA), located within a preK-8 grade public school in northeast Portland, Oregon.{{Cite web|url=http://www.c3initiative.org/ksmoca.html|title=KSMOCA|website=c3:initiative|language=en|access-date=2018-11-25}} The museum opens to the public several times a year during art exhibition openings and special events, such as public lectures and an annual art fair.{{Cite web|last=Espinoza|first=Ambar|date=2018-12-17|title=KSMoCA makes art come alive for students in Northeast Portland|url=https://www.oregonmetro.gov/news/ksmoca-makes-art-come-alive-students-northeast-portland|access-date=2020-12-02|website=Metro|language=en}} KSMOCA had its first International Art Fair in 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.opb.org/radio/programs/state-of-wonder/article/portland-internation-art-fair-king-school-museum-contemporary-art/|title=Taking The Field Trip To The Classroom: King School Museum Of Contemporary Art|last=Baer|first=April|date=2018-08-20|website=www.opb.org|language=en|access-date=2018-11-25}}

Tender Feelings Press

During his residency at Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, Fletcher unpacked 33 years worth of accumulated refuse salvaged from his parents' attic, and invited anyone who stopped by his studio to take a piece of his past with them.http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/fletcherdetritus.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024}} He also collected sundry stories written on scraps of paper by his friend Jess Hilliard, which he collated into the book, "Hi, Friend{{Cite web |title=Hi Friend By Jess Hilliard |url=https://harrellfletcher.com/2006/friend.html |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=harrellfletcher.com}}." (Alternate title: "Remember When We Used To Make Out.{{Cite web |title=Christine Burgin Gallery |url=https://www.christineburgin.com/exhibitions/eh_fletcher_2003.html |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=www.christineburgin.com}}") So far, "Hi, Friend" is the only book published by Fletcher's Tender Feelings Press.

In 2002 he won the Creative Capital award.[http://creative-capital.org/grantees/view/146/project:119 "Harrell Fletcher: Emerging Fields, 2002"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305103609/http://creative-capital.org/grantees/view/146/project:119 |date=2016-03-05 }} Creative Capital. Accessed 12 October 2016 He was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial.{{Cite web|url=https://digitalcollections.saic.edu/islandora/object/islandora:30197?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=1f91bbc9f03eccd21373&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=7|title=This container isn't big enough: a project for the Whitney Biennial and Socrates Sculpture Park|website=SAIC Digital Collections|language=en|access-date=2018-11-25}} In 2005 he won the Alpert Awards in the Arts and a residency at ArtPace.{{cite web|url=http://alpertawards.org/archive/winner05/visualarts.html|title=Alpert Award in Visual Arts, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927104323/http://alpertawards.org/archive/winner05/visualarts.html|archive-date=2007-09-27|url-status=dead|accessdate=2007-03-04}}

In 2011, he was an artist in residence at Exploratorium,{{Cite news|url=https://www.exploratorium.edu/arts/artists/harrell_fletcher|title=Harrell Fletcher 2011-2013|date=2013-03-20|work=Exploratorium|access-date=2018-11-25|language=en}} and won an award from Americans for the Arts for Outstanding Public Artwork. He has been in residence at Capp Street Project at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://archive.wattis.org/exhibitions/capp-street-project-harrell-fletcher-magnificent-seven|title=Harrell Fletcher: Artist in Residence|date=2011|website=CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts|language=en|access-date=2018-11-25}} In 2014, he was an artist in residence with his Portland-based art collective Public Doors and Windows (PDW) which includes artists Molly Sherman, and Nolan Calisch, at Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS) at University of California, Santa Cruz.{{Cite web|url=http://ias.ucsc.edu/projects/collective-museum|title=Collective Museum with Public Doors and Windows {{!}} Institute of the Arts and Sciences|website=ias.ucsc.edu|date=11 February 2016 |language=en|access-date=2018-11-25}}

Fletcher's work is held in the following permanent collections:

• The American War (2005), Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/119142|title=Harrell Fletcher. The American War. 2005|website=MoMA|language=en|access-date=2018-11-25}}
• Learning to Love You More, (2002–2009) co-created with Miranda July, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
• This container isn't big enough (2004) art book, SAIC Digital Collections, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
• FRAC Bretagne Fond Régional d'Art contemporain (Regional Fund for Contemporary Art), Rennes, France{{Dead link|date=November 2018}}

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• {{Official website|http://www.harrellfletcher.com}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20131003045740/http://kadist.org/en/people/harrell-fletcher Harrell Fletcher] at Kadist Art Foundation
• [http://allanmccollum.net/allanmcnyc/harrellfletcher/mccollum_interview.html Interview with Harrell Fletcher], by Allan McCollum, July 2005
• [http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/ Learning to Love You More]

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