John Harlan Norris is an artist, musician and educator. His paintings and animated works explore alternative approaches to portraiture and investigate notions such as occupational identity, virtual constructions of the self, and public persona. Norris has exhibited his work throughout the United States as well as in Europe and Asia, including exhibitions at Susan Moremen Gallery (Louisville, KY), Christoffer Egelund Gallery (Copenhagen, DE), Martin Museum of Art (Waco, TX), Wërkartz (Los Angeles, CA), KMAC Museum (Louisville, KY) and others. His films have been shown at a variety of venues including Supernova Digital Animation Festival (Denver, CO), AmDocs: American Documentary and Animation Festival (Palm Springs, CA), Montreal International Animation Festival (Canada), and the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (WI). He is a recipient of an Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship in Painting, an Arkansas Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Painting, an Arkansas State University Faculty Research Award, and two artist grants from the Great Meadows Foundation. He has attended residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Willhardt & Naud, and the Vermont Studio Center. He records and performs with the musical group Letters of Acceptance. Norris lives in Lexington, Kentucky where he is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Kentucky.
