Jane Ursula Harris is a Brooklyn-based writer and art historian who has contributed to publications including Artforum, Art in America, Artnet, The Believer, Bookforum, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, Cultured Magazine, the College Art Associations’ Art Journal, Duke University Press’ Cultural Politics, Flash Art, Frieze, GARAGE, Huffington Post, The Paris Review, Surface Magazine, Time Out, New York, the Village Voice, and many more.  She is a 2023 recipient of The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. 

Her essays have appeared in catalogues and monographs such as Carnegie Mellon/ICA Miller’s Jacolby Satterwhite: Spirits Roaming on the Earth (2021); Kunsthalle Hamburg’s Werner Buttner: The Last Lecture Show (2021); Participant Inc.'s NegroGothic: M. Lamar (2019); Hatje Cantz's Examples to Follow: Expeditions in Aesthetics and Sustainability (2011); Kerber Verlag’s Marc Lüders: The East Side Gallery (2005); Phaidon’s Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing (2005), Universe-Rizzoli’s Curve: The Female Nude Now (2003); Phaidon’s Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting (2002); Universe-Rizzoli’s Curve: The Female Nude Now (2003); and Twin Palms' Anthony Goicolea (2003). ‘SEE RECENT WRITING/NEWS’ for more.

Harris is currently a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts (NYC) in the Art History Department where she specializes in modern and contemporary art, and has taught at Parsons School of Design (Critical Studies), and New York University (Studio Art). She has been a visiting critic at BFA and MFA programs - Parsons, RISD, Cornell, the School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, etc. - and residency programs such as International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA).

Harris has participated in panels, symposia, and talks at museums and institutions including The Whitney Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, The National Academy of Design, Moore College of Art & Design, School of Visual Arts, and many galleries and non-profits. Prior to teaching, she was the director of two New York non-profit galleries.

As a freelance curator, she has organized exhibitions and film programs at a variety of venues - White Columns, Pioneer Works, NEWINC, F.I.T., Nitehawk Cinema, Visual AIDS, 601 Artspace, etc. - that have been favorably reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Out, and the Village Voice. She is currently programming HERETICS, an annual performance series for Pioneer Works, the first of which was featured in Artforum, and the second in the New York Times.