{{Short description|American artist (born 1966)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Harry Dodge | image = Harry Dodge in 2019.jpg | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966}} | birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. | alma_mater = Bard College | occupation = sculptor, performer, video artist, professor, writer. | employer = California Institute of the Arts | spouse = Maggie Nelson | children = 2 }} '''Harry Dodge''' (born 1966) is an American sculptor, performer, video artist, professor, and writer.

His solo exhibitions have included works in New York, Los Angeles and Connecticut, while his group exhibitions have taken place at The New Museum, the Whitney Biennial, the Getty Museum and the Hammer Museum, among others. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 and is the author of the book ''My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing'' (2020). He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

==Early life== Dodge was born in 1966 in San Francisco, California.<ref name="HammerColl">{{Cite web|url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2017/living-apart-together-recent-acquisitions/|title=Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection - Hammer Museum|website=The Hammer Museum|date=May 20, 2017 |access-date=July 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704202431/https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2017/living-apart-together-recent-acquisitions/|archive-date=July 4, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=HARRY DODGE AND STANYA KAHN|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/200602/harry-dodge-and-stanya-kahn-10278|access-date=2021-07-26|website=www.artforum.com|date=February 2006 |language=en-US}}</ref> Dodge earned an MFA degree in Fine Art in 2002 from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eai.org/artists/harry-dodge-and-stanya-kahn/biography|title=Electronic Arts Intermix: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn : Biography|website=www.eai.org|access-date=July 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704203427/https://www.eai.org/artists/harry-dodge-and-stanya-kahn/biography|archive-date=July 4, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Career== 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.<ref name="SF Gate">{{cite news|last1=Warren|first1=Nancy|title=Tea Time at Red Dora's Cafe|url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Tea-Time-At-Red-Dora-s-Cafe-3267522.php|accessdate=October 31, 2014|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|date=March 30, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704173924/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Tea-Time-At-Red-Dora-s-Cafe-3267522.php|archive-date=July 4, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title="Bound in Body, Gagged by the Present": 5 Trans Artists to Support in the Wake of Trump's Transphobic Memo|url=http://www.artspace.com/magazine/news_events/bound-in-body-gagged-by-the-present-5-trans-artists-to-support-in-the-wake-of-trumps|access-date=2021-07-26|website=Artspace|language=english}}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 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).<ref>Gonzalez, Rita, Steve Seid and Bruce Yonemoto. ''California Video: Artists and Histories.'' Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008.</ref>

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.<ref>''[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290498/?ref_=ref_ext_NYT By Hook or By Crook.]'' Directed by Harry Dodge and Silas Howard. Los Angeles: Steakhaus Productions, 2002.</ref> Dodge also performed in the 2000 John Waters film ''Cecil B. Demented''.<ref>See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173716/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503003923/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173716/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm |date=May 3, 2015 }}</ref><ref>''Cecil B. DeMented''. Directed by John Waters. Los Angeles, CA and Paris, France: Polar Entertainment Corporation and Canal+, 2000.</ref>

From 2004 to 2008, while continuing to make solo work, Dodge formed half of a video-making collaboration with artist Stanya Kahn.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ww9f3TGMGM8C&q=%22harry+dodge%22&pg=PA84|title=California Video: Artists and Histories|first1=Rita|last1=Gonzalez|first2=Steve|last2=Seid|first3=Bruce|last3=Yonemoto|date=July 4, 2008|publisher=Getty Publications|isbn=9780892369225|via=Google Books}}</ref>

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”.<ref>Sillman, Amy. “ [https://www.mfa.org/programs/lectures-and-courses/harry-dodge-and-amy-sillman Harry Dodge and Amy Sillman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206080245/https://www.mfa.org/programs/lectures-and-courses/harry-dodge-and-amy-sillman |date=February 6, 2020 }}.” Public conversation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Wednesday March 6, 2019.</ref>&nbsp;''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.”<ref>Kastner, Jeffrey. “Harry Dodge, Callicoon Fine Arts”, ''Artforum'', September 2019, pg. 258, print and [https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201907/harry-dodge-80618 online.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206075814/https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201907/harry-dodge-80618 |date=February 6, 2020 }}</ref>

Dodge teaches in the School of Art at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)<ref>Cal Arts Faculty, [https://art.calarts.edu/faculty-and-staff/harry-dodge Harry Dodge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704164637/https://art.calarts.edu/faculty-and-staff/harry-dodge |date=July 4, 2019 }}</ref> and in sculpture program of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College.<ref>Bard MFA People, [https://www.bard.edu/mfa/bios/index.php?id=99959723 Harry Dodge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815052433/http://www.bard.edu/mfa/bios/index.php?id=99959723 |date=August 15, 2018 }}&nbsp; &nbsp;</ref>

==Collections== Dodge's collaborative work with Stanya Kahn, ''Can't Swallow It, Can't Spit It Out'',<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/arts/design/02fink.html|title=Unsettling, in a Funny Sort of Way|first=Jori|last=Finkel|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 2, 2008|access-date=February 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202225808/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/arts/design/02fink.html|archive-date=December 2, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/119103|title=Harry Dodge, Stanya Kahn. Can't Swallow It, Can't Spit It Out. 2006 &#124; MoMA|website=The Museum of Modern Art|access-date=July 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704203523/https://www.moma.org/collection/works/119103|archive-date=July 4, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Dodge's solo work is also included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,<ref>MoCA Artist, [https://www.moca.org/artist/harry-dodge Harry Dodge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704202110/https://www.moca.org/artist/harry-dodge |date=July 4, 2019 }}&nbsp; &nbsp;</ref> and the Hammer Museum.<ref>Hammer Museum Artist, [https://hammer.ucla.edu/made-in-la-2014/harry-dodge Harry Dodge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704201906/https://hammer.ucla.edu/made-in-la-2014/harry-dodge/ |date=July 4, 2019 }}&nbsp; &nbsp;</ref>

== Awards == In 2017 Dodge was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.<ref>John Simon Guggenheim Fellows 2017, [https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/harry-dodge/ Harry Dodge.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704164633/https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/harry-dodge/ |date=July 4, 2019 }}</ref> In 2012, he received an Art Matters grant.<ref>Art Matters Foundation Grantees 2012, [https://artmattersfoundation.org/grantees/harry-dodge Harry Dodge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704164630/https://artmattersfoundation.org/grantees/harry-dodge |date=July 4, 2019 }}.</ref>

His co-directed film ''By Hook or By Crook'' received several awards, including Best Feature, Audience Award at Outfest Los Angeles Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; Best Screenplay, Grand Jury Prize at Outfest Los Angeles Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; Best Feature, Jury Prize at Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; Best New Director, Jury Prize at Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; Best Feature, Audience Award at Mardi Gras Festival, Australia; Best Feature, Audience Award at South by Southwest Film Festival; Best Feature, Jury Award at Philadelphia Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.<ref>Best Feature, [https://wolfeondemand.com/film/905/By-Hook-or-by-Crook Jury Award at Philadelphia Lesbian & Gay Film Festival] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010011841/http://wolfeondemand.com/film/905/By-Hook-or-by-Crook |date=October 10, 2018 }}&nbsp; &nbsp;</ref>

== Personal life == Dodge is married to the author Maggie Nelson, with whom he has a child.<ref>Als, Hilton. “[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/18/maggie-nelsons-many-selves Immediate Family: Maggie Nelson's Life in Words] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924001643/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/18/maggie-nelsons-many-selves |date=September 24, 2017 }}.” ''New Yorker'', April 18, 2016&nbsp; &nbsp;</ref> He has an older child from a previous relationship.<ref>Finkel, Jor. “[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/arts/design/02fink.html Unsettling, in a Funny Sort of Way.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202225808/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/arts/design/02fink.html |date=December 2, 2019 }}” ''New York Times'', March 2, 2008.&nbsp; &nbsp;</ref>

Dodge uses the pronoun ''he'', but has long expressed disinterest in gender designations.<ref>Sulistio, Sarah. Harry Dodge.” [https://miamirail.org/performing-arts/harry-dodge/ ''The Miami Rail''], {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030191453/https://miamirail.org/performing-arts/harry-dodge/ |date=October 30, 2019 }} June 18, 2014.</ref> He identifies as a butch.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-10-16|title=Maggie Nelson on Explaining the Spectrum of Transgender Identity|url=https://longreads.com/2015/10/15/maggie-nelson-on-explaining-the-spectrum-of-transgender-identity/|access-date=2021-10-11|website=Longreads|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Are words good enough?|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/are-words-good-enough-maggie-nelson/|access-date=2021-10-11|website=TLS|language=en-GB}}</ref> In a 2017 interview with ''Lunch Ticket'' he discusses an interest in Jane Bennett's formulation of Adorno’s theory of "non-identity", or "non-language knowings".<ref>Kellerby, Carrie. [https://lunchticket.org/harry-dodge-artist/ “Harry Dodge, Artist.”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704164631/https://lunchticket.org/harry-dodge-artist/ |date=July 4, 2019 }} ''Lunch Ticket'', Winter 2017.</ref>

== Bibliography == * {{Cite book|last=Dodge|first=Harry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ak-iDwAAQBAJ|title=My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing|publisher=Penguin Books|year=2020|isbn=978-0143134367}}<ref>{{Cite web|date=April 1, 2020|title=Harry Dodge: My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing|url=https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/harry-dodge-my-meteorite-or-without-the-random-there-can-be-no-new-thing|website=KCRW}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.harrydodge.com Official web site] * [https://miamirail.org/performing-arts/harry-dodge/ Interview with Harry Dodge with Sarah Sulistio] * [https://www.artforum.com/picks/harry-dodge-30839 Review of “Frowntown” in Artforum] * [https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201809/harry-dodge-77386 Review of “Works of Love” in Artforum] * [https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201907/harry-dodge-80618 Review of “User” in Artforum] * [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/arts/design/review-harry-dodge-meditates-on-identity-with-the-cybernetic-fold.html Review of “The Cybernetic Fold” in The New York Times]

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