Harold Mendez

Session 3, Week 3 July 31 - August 6, 2022

Harold Mendez is a first-generation American of Colombian and Mexican descent. Working in photography, sculpture, and installation, his work often considers the transnational experience with an interest in how constructions of history and geography shape our sense of self. Mendez’s ten-year career survey premiered at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2020-2021 and toured museums including the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has participated in significant exhibitions, including Being: New Photography in 2018 at the Museum of Modern Art, and the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Mendez's work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem; MoMA PS1; the Renaissance Society; Project Row Houses; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, among other venues. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; Core Program; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Headlands Center for the Arts; as well as the Kohler Arts/Industry Residency. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 

Harold Mendez, Field (Encounter), 2019, Archival pigment print, litho crayon, graphite and charcoal mounted on dibond in twelve (12) parts, 79" x 556"