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For Harris, touch mattered as much as sight. Cloth, string, plaster, and bronze each carried their own weight .

Emotionally, artmaking was a means for articulating the ineffable, as it went from a boyhood outlet for grappling with the loss .

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Emotionally, artmaking was a means for articulating the ineffable, as it went from a boyhood outlet for grappling with the loss .

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Art Exhibitions

1951 University of New Mexico Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
1953 The Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.
1958 Poindexter Gallery. (1958 May 19 – June 6). Sculptors: Mary Frank, Paul Harris. New York, New York.
1959 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. New Forms – New Media II.
1959 – 1960 Traveling Exhibition: The Museum of Modern Art; The Denver Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum; City Art Museum of St. Louis; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Recent Sculpture U.S.A.
1960 Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York. Paul Harris.
1961 Universidad Catolica, Santiago, Chile. Escultura 4.
1962 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Arte de Chile.
1963 Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York. Collapsible Monuments.
1963 – 1965 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York. Hans Hofmann and His Students (Traveling Exhibition).
1964 Art Council of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dial Y for Sculpture.
1965 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Society for Contemporary Art, Annual Exhibition.
1965 New York World’s Fair, New York, New York, American Express Pavilion. Art ’65.
1965 Art Council of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. How the West Was Done.
1965 Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, CA. Paul Harris.
1965 Lanyon Gallery, Palo Alto, CA. Paul Harris.
1966 Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. 61-66, The Work of Visiting Artists.
1966 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. New Art in Philadelphia.
1966 Graham Gallery, New York, New York. Paul Harris, Eva Hesse, Jean Linder, Philip Orenstein, Marc Morrel, Frank Viner.
1966-1967 Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsmen’s Council, New York, New York. People Figures.
1966 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA. Eleventh Annual Selection for the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art.
1967 Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Philadelphia Art Museum. Sculpture of the Sixties.
1967 Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York. Paul Harris.
1967 Candy Store, Folsom, CA. Paul Harris.
1967 IX Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Environment USA: 1957-1967 organized by William C. Seitz for the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
1968 Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany. Prospect ’68.
1968 University Galleries, University of Nevada, Reno. Sculpture Invitational.
1968 Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California. 1968 Invitational West Coast ’68 Painters & Sculptors.
1969 New Jersey State Museum Cultural Center Trenton, Trenton, New Jersey. Soft Art.
1969 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California. Sculpture.
1968-1969 Smithsonian Institute of Art organized for European Tour. New American Figurative Art, 1963-1968.
1970 Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York, Paul Harris; Sculpture & Lithographs.
1970 Galerie M. E. Thelen, Essen, Germany. Paul Harris.
1970 California College of Arts and Crafts Gallery, Oakland, CA. A Show of Hands.
1970 Recklinghausen, Germany. Ruhrfestspiele.
1970 Basle, Switzerland. Art 70.
1970 Kunsthalle, Koln, Germany. Kunstmarkt 70.
1971 MH de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition.
1971 Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation Gallery, University of California at Los Angeles. Made in California.
1971 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Paul Harris.
1972 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California. Paul Harris. (Catalog.)
1972 ACA Galleries, New York, New York. Looking West.
1973 Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, Paul Harris Sculpture.
1973 Museum Contemporary Crafts of the American Arts Council, New York, New York. Sewn, Stitched & Stuffed.
1973 The Museum of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Paul Harris.
1973 University Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Paul Harris.
1971 – 1973 International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C. Tamarind, A Renaissance of Lithography. Traveling Exhibition.
1973 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Anatomy in Fabric.
1973 The Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio. Sculpture in Cloth.
1974 The Gallery of the College of Marin, Kentfield, CA. Seven Bay Area Sculptors.
1975 JPL Gallery, London, England. The Envelope Show.
1976 Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana. Montana Sculpture.
1976 The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. Paul Harris.
1980 Falkrik Community Cultural Center, San Rafael, California. Sculpture by Paul Harris, David Best, Richard Moquin, Rick Hall & Drawings by Craig Hansen.
1981 Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, Florida. Paul Harris Sculpture, Certain Pieces, 1958-1980.
1983 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, Stanford Museum of Art, San Francisco, California. Paul Harris: “Still Life.”
1987 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California. Paul Harris.
1989 Lanzoni Gallery, San Francisco, California. Paul Harris: Sculpture.
1990 Redmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany. Paul Harris.
1993 Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, California. Paul Harris: Works in Wood / Works on Paper.
1998 Margaret Woodson Fisher Sculpture Gallery, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin. Contemporary Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition.
1999 Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California. Focus: Paul Harris, Certain Pieces: Drawing & Sculpture.
1999 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California. Paul Harris’ Sculpture.
2000 College Art Gallery, College of Marin, Kentfield, California. Paul Harris: Sculpture & Drawings.
2001 Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana. Fabric Sculptural Works: Paul Harris.
2003 The Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey. Celebrating Sculpture.
2007 – 2008 Eric Firestone Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona. Douglas Denniston and Paul Harris.
2008 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California. Summer Exhibitions.
2020 – present various shows at the Paul Harris and Marguerite Kirk Gallery, Belgrade, MT
2022 Medium Gallery, Bozeman, MT
2023 Danforth Museum of Art, Livingston, MT
2023 Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
2024 Carbon County Arts Guild, Red Lodge, MT
2025 MonDak Heritage Center, Sidney, MT
2027 Holter Museum, Helena, MT