Vron Harris is an award-winning, internationally exhibited filmmaker and academic.
Vron’s practice is interested in the construction of film and the representation of time, space and emotion. There’s an interest in collaboration and the use of static camera and offscreen space.
Artist CV
VRON HARRIS
Lives and works in London.
EDUCATION
2016 - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames and Middlesex University, London.
2016 - Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames.
2007 - MA in Photography, London College of Communication, London.
1997 - NFTS Post Graduate Diploma in Screen Arts and Sciences - Cinematography, The National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield.
1992 - BA(Hons) Degree in Film, Video and Photographic Arts, The University of Westminster, London.
1989 - Foundation in Media Studies, London College of Printing, London.
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Screenworks Volume 15.1
https://www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volume-15-1/the-staircase
2010 - Tenderflix 2010, DVD produced and distributed by Tenderpixel Gallery
2009 - Tenderpix 2009:Experimental Film at Tenderpixel Gallery, DVD produced and distributed by Tenderpixel Gallery
2009 - I always knew you’d come back... Volumn 2 – a Latitude Publication
2009 - I always knew you’d come back… – a Latitude Photographer's Publication
AWARDS
2025 Special Achievement in Experimental Fiction Filmmaking
The International Network of Experimental Fiction Filmmaking
https://www.ineff.org/247-filmmaking-competition.html
2025 Long listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2025
19 September 2025 to 25 January 2026
https://artprize.aestheticamagazine.com/projects/vron-harris/
2019 Long listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2019
8th March - 14th July 2019, York Art Gallery
2018 Earth Photo 2018 Moving Image Award Forestry Commission England and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG),
23rd July – 21st September 2018, exhibiting at the Royal Geographical Society in London and touring to a number of Forestry Commission England locations.
https://www.earthphoto.world/films/
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2025 , 2024, 2023 The International Network Of Experimental Fiction Films https://www.ineff.org/
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND FILM FESTIVALS
2025 Aesthetica Art Prize 2025
19 September 2025 to 25 January 2026
https://artprize.aestheticamagazine.com/projects/vron-harris/
2024 Boreal Screendance Festival
1st November to 13th November 2024, https://borealak.is/
2019 Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition 2019 Aesthetica
8th March - 14th July 2019, York Art Gallery
2018 Earth Photo 2018 Forestry Commission England and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG),
23rd July – 21st September 2018, exhibiting at the Royal Geographical Society in London and touring to a number of Forestry Commission England locations.
https://www.earthphoto.world/films/
2018 Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses and the Herne Hill Free Film Festival
13th May, 'Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter' continually looping short ahead of the feature.
Link: http://www.freefilmfestivals.org/event/little-shop-of-horrors/
2018 Technology: Past and Future, Quay's Culture and the University of Salford,
9th April - 4th May, Nominated as one of the exhibiting artists by Waterside Arts Centre.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7USDSMMtJ2U Link: http://quaysculture.com/2018/03/technology-past-future/
2017/18 Photofusion Salon/17, Photofusion’s Annual Member’s Exhibition
9th December 2015 – 13th January 2018, Link: http://www.photofusion.org/exhibitions/salon17/
2017 - Screenlight 2017, Creative Industries Trafford, Waterside Arts Centre
1st August - 1st September, Link: http://watersidearts.org/
Bring Your Own Beamer, Lux, Space,
30th September, 2017
2015/16 Photofusion Salon/15, Photofusion’s Annual Member’s Exhibition
10th December 2015 – 29th January 2016
2015 - Waterside 10 Commission, Waterside Arts Centre,
21st June – July 27th, Link: http://watersidearts.org/
Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB) - Hosted by SPACE and LUX
10th December 2015 6.30pm - 9pm
Space Studios, London
2014/15 - Photofusion Salon/14, Photofusion’s Annual Member’s Exhibition
11th December 2014 – 30th January 2015
2011 - Right Here, Right Now, Exposures from the Public Realm
Format 11, Derby. 3rd March – 4th April
2010 - Tenderflix Film Festival 2010
Tenderpixel Gallery, London.22nd July – 30th July
2010 - Matt Roberts Salon Video Art Prize 2010, Matt Roberts Arts Project Space, 4th March – 17th April.
Selected by Mike Sperlinger and Zineb Sedira.
2010 - Open Screening,Whitechapel Gallery, London.25h March
2010 - Film/Video/Performance, Wimbledon Space.London
18th February – 19th March.Curated by Terry Smith.
2009 - Opulence – Latitude Photographers Exhibition, Photo-Space, London
Part of Photomonth 09,3rd December 2009 – 2nd January 2010
2009 - Salon 09 Four Corners Gallery, London30th October – 12th December
2009 - Open Screening,Whitechapel Gallery, London.26th November
2009 - Remind Me Where I Have Never Been,Pure Groove, London
4th November.
2009 - I Always Knew You’d Come Back- Latitude Photographers
Swanfield Yard, Part of Photomonth 09, 1st – 7th October
2009 - Open Screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London.17th September
2009 - Tenderpix - Tenderpixel Experimental Film – Rushes Soho Shorts Festival
London. 23rd July – 31st July.
2009 - The Apollo Project Apollo Home Entertainment, London.
4th June – 27th June.
2009 - Time Exhibition curated by Photo-Festivals
International Format Photography Festival ’09.Derby.
2009 - I Always Knew You’d Come Back – Latitude Photographers
5th March – 21st March
2008 - Open Exhibition 2008, Café Gallery, London.
26th November – 14th December.
2008 - Westminster Open Exhibition 2008,SW1 Gallery, London
8th November – 22nd November.
2008 - Circles of Latitude – Latitude Photographers Exhibition,
Four Corners Gallery, London. 18th September – 1st November.
2007 - MA Photography Final Exhibition, London College of Communication, London
2007 - MA Photography Interim Exhibition, London College of Communication, London
1989 - The Association For Photography in Wales – Group Exhibition, Ffotogallery, Cardiff.
RADIO AND ARCHIVES
2018 Effra Sound - Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses with Kate Sebag & Vron Harris
http://effrasound.blogspot.com/2018/08/brockwell-community-greenhouses.html
2017 - Volunteer Voices - Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses, Herne Hill History Hear and the Lambeth and Southwark Archives
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY FOR SELECTED WORKS OF ART
2012 - Shakespeare’s Confessions – Gillian Wearing
Rare Day, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Space
2009 - Confessions: Portraits, Videos - Gillian Wearing
Secrets and Lies,Musée Rodin, Paris. 10th April 2009 – 1st November 2009.
2008 - Nancy Gregory – Gillian Wearing,
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2008 Colour video for framed monitor with sound; c-type print.(Edition of 3) Shot on Super 16mm.
2005 - Snapshot- Gillian Wearing
Bloomberg Space. 7 DVDs on framed wall mounted plasma screens with a single audio track.7 min 30 sec loop. Shot on Super 16.
2003 - Yello - Gillian Wearing
Publisher Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. Shot on Super 16mm as part of Loud and Clear.
2000 - Fornubu Drift – Graham Gussin.
‘Another Place’ at Tramway.Projected DVD.
2000 - Spill - Graham Gussin
Tate Britain. B & W Super 16mm, looped projection.
1999 - Drunk - Gillian Wearing
Serpentine Gallery.3 screen projection.23 minutes. Shot on B & WSuper 16mm.
1997 - 2 into 1 - Gillian Wearing
BBC. 4 min 30 secs.Shot on DVC Pro
1997 - 10-16 - Gillian Wearing
Royal Academy of Arts.Shot on DVC Pro.
ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
2011 - Self Made – Gillian Wearing
Feature film in distribution 2011
TEACHING
January 2019 to date Lecturer in Film Production - Cinematography - Middlesex University, London.
2015-2016 - Visiting Lecturer - Regent's University, London, London College of Communication, London, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames
2015 - Moving Image Technician, part time - Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames
2010-2012 - Visiting Lecturer - Four Corners, London
2009 - Visiting Teaching Assistant. National Film and Television School Film, Beaconsfield.
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