Christopher Harris

Christopher Harris' award-winning films have appeared widely at festivals, museums and cinematheques including solo screenings at the 2024 Whitney Biennial, TIFF Lightbox, the Museum of Modern Art, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the Locarno Film Festival, and Arsenal Berlin. Additional screenings include retrospectives at Anthology Film Archives and the Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival in Brazil, a two-person screening with Su Friedrich at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, and group screenings at the New York Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, among many others. He was also a featured artist at the 2018 Flaherty Film Seminar.

His honors include a 2023 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for Film/Video, the 2022 Ground Glass Award from Prismatic Ground for outstanding contribution in the field of experimental media, a 2019-2020 Wexner Center for the Arts Artist Residency Award, a 2020 Los Angeles Filmforum Artist Project Grant, and a 2015 Creative Capital Award. He has received fellowships from United States Artists (2025), Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship (2023-2024), and Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2020-2021). His work has been featured in the Film Comment Podcast, Art in America, BOMB Magazine, and Film Quarterly as well as numerous books, journals and magazines. Harris is Professor of Visual Arts at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts and lives and works between Coralville, IA and Princeton, NJ.