International Residency
United States
Image: Andrew Samuel Harrison, 'Baring Holds 4', 2025, Stainless steel, foam, 43 x 17 x 10"
Andrew Samuel Harrison disrupts dominant narratives of disability, care, and support systems through sculptural practice grounded in embodied disabled experience, disability activism histories, and emergent accessibility practices.
Andrew Samuel Harrison disrupts dominant narratives of disability support systems through a sculptural practice grounded in his embodied disabled experience, disability activism histories, and emergent accessibility practices. Soft foam and upholstered surfaces, steel handles and prosthetics, and concrete infrastructural forms invite bodily recognition while frustrating expectations of comfort and functional utility. Rather than framing disability through ideals of independence, overcoming, or productive self-sufficiency, he foregrounds access as continuously renegotiated through improvisation and interdependence.
Andrew Samuel Harrison is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, educator, curator, and writer from Richmond, Virginia. He received his MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2025 and his BA in Creative Writing from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015. Harrison’s recent exhibitions and projects include presentations at the Brooklyn Public Library, NYU’s Clive Davis Gallery, the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 25 East Gallery, CultureHub, Eden Airlines, and 1708 Gallery. He has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, NARS Foundation, and Sculpture Space. He co-founded 959D, an independent exhibition space in Richmond, Virginia supporting emerging artists and experimental practices.
