Harry Gould Harvey IV

Harry Gould Harvey IV (b. 1991) lives and works in Fall River, MA. Drawing inspiration from the ecological fabric of his native South Coast Region, Harvey deconstructs the building blocks of empire and illuminates the weight of anonymous labor. Foraging materials from downed or cut trees, destroyed Gilded Age mansions, dilapidated factories, gutted Gothic churches, and his subconscious, Harvey creates mystical and diagrammatic drawings housed inside hand-built wood frames akin to reliquaries and large-scale sculptural installations that evoke lost histories of marginalized artisanship and backbreaking toil in the name of American industry and luxury. Harvey’s recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Sick Metal, P·P·O·W, New York, NY; LEVEL LEVEL, Cordova, Barcelona, Spain; List Projects 29: Brittni Ann Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; An Anathema Strikes the Flesh of the Laboror, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale on the Hudson, NY; and Arrows of Desire, with Faith Wilding, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; among others. He participated in the 2021 New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, as well as the 2022 group exhibition Door to the Atmosphere at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, from which a work was acquired for the museum’s permanent collection. Additionally, his works belong to the collections of KADIST, San Francisco, CA and Paris, France, as well as the RISD Museum, Providence, RI. Harvey is the founder of the curatorial project Pretty Days and co-founder of the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall River, MA.

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