Theodore Harris

Theodore A. Harris is a Philadelphia-based visual artist, and poet. Harris is a co-founder of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. As a visual artist, Harris has co-authored many books including Our Flesh of Flames (2019), Malcolm Xas Ideology (2008) with Amiri Baraka, TRIPTYCH with Amiri Baraka and Jack Hirschman (2011), and I ran from it and was still in it with Fred Moten (2007), and Thesentür: Conscientious Objector to Formalism (2017). His work has been exhibited in over 40 solo and group shows nationally and internationally. His work is in private and public collections such as the The University of New Mexico Art Museum, Penn Academy of the Fine Arts, The Center for Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania, W.E.B. Du Bois College House, University of Pennsylvania, Saint Louis University Museum of Art, La Salle University Art Museum, Kislak Center UPenn. In 2021 his long-awaited solo exhibit Theodore A. Harris: Art as Social Praxis Dedicated to Art Historian David Craven was mounted at Linfield University.