Payton Harris-Woodard, Bedroom Soleil, 2022
Payton Harris-Woodard (b. 1996, Chicago) earned her BA from Columbia College Chicago, and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.Recent exhibitions include Ultra Local at Van Der Plas Gallery, New York, NY, Generations at Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL; Exit Counseling at Green Gallery in Milwaukee, WI; and Ground Floor Biennial at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago,IL. Her writing and artwork has been published in Hyperallergic Magazine, F News Magazine, Stellium Literary Magazine and Hand papermaking Magazine where she published an interview with Howardena Pindell. Awards include the New Artist Society Full Merit Award at School of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Black Writers Fellowship with Hand Paper making Magazine; and, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Fellowship.