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Ellen Harvey

Ellen Harvey is a British-born conceptual artist living and working in Brooklyn. Her work frequently pairs traditional representational aesthetics with seemingly antithetical post-modern strategies, such as institutional critique, mapping, appropriation and pastiche to explore diverse but related issues such as the political meaning of ornament, the ecological implications of the picturesque, the social consensus represented by the museum and the relationship between art and nostalgia.

She has exhibited extensively in the U.S. and internationally, including in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Her work has been the subject of solo museum exhibitions at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Laznia (Gdansk, Poland), Museum der Moderne Salzburg (Austria), Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK), Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), the Groeninge Museum (Bruges, Belgium), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington DC), the Bass Museum (Miami Beach, Florida), the Center for Contemporary Art (Warsaw, Poland), the Pennsylvania Academy (Philadelphia) and the Whitney Museum at Altria (New York), among others. Her recent exhibition at Turner Contemporary was selected by Frieze as one of the five best institutional shows in the UK in 2021.