Harry Dodge

In 2017 Dodge was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.  In 2012 he received an Art Matters grant.

Dodge uses the pronoun “he,” but has long expressed disinterest in gender designations.  In a 2017 interview with Lunch Ticket he discusses an interest in Adorno’s theory of “non-identity,” or “non-language knowings.” Dodge and Nelson identify as a queer couple.

Since 2008 Dodge has focused on sculpture, drawing, video, and writing. His interdisciplinary practice is “characterized by its explorations of relation, materiality and ecstatic contamination. Artforum says his “dense, idea-rich” works are “designed to hold ideas of individuality and multiplicity in tension and to create spaces of dynamic slippage between the whole and its parts.”

From 2004 to 2008, while continuing to make solo work, Dodge formed half of a video-making collaboration with artist Stanya Kahn.

In the early 1990s, Dodge was one of the founders of and curators for the San Francisco community-based performance space, Red Dora's Bearded Lady Coffeehouse. During this time Dodge wrote, directed, and performed several evening-length, monologue-based performances, including "Muddy Little River" (1996) and "From Where I'm Sitting (I Can Only Reach Your Ass)" (1997).

In the late 1990s, Dodge co-wrote, directed, edited and starred in (with Silas Howard) a narrative feature film, By Hook or By Crook, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (2002), and received five Best Feature awards at various film festivals. Dodge also performed in the 2000 John Waters film Cecil B. Demented.

Harry Dodge (born 1966) is an American sculptor, performer, video artist, and writer.

Born in 1966 in San Francisco, Dodge earned an MFA in Fine Art in 2002 from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.