Joan Harmon

Joan Harmon’s work explores the mysterious realms of memory, dreaming, and transformation. Using glass as her primary sculptural medium, she investigates how the mind remembers, rearranges, and reimagines experience. Her fascination with the brain as both an organ of thought and a vessel of emotion drives her to create forms that evoke the biological and psychological landscapes of human consciousness. 

Recurring motifs such as the brain, pillow, and human feet serve as symbols of introspection and vulnerability. These elements reflect the liminal space between waking and dreaming, where the unseen becomes visible and the intangible takes form.

​Harmon’s cast glass works, created during a residency at the Creative Glass Center of America, embody a delicate balance between fragility and luminosity, inviting viewers to meditate on the transformative nature of memory and the quiet power of reflection. 
 

Curriculum Vitae

Awards and Grants

• Artist Residency, Kultursciok Arts Collective, Domicella, Italy, 2019
• Honorarium from Burning Man Arts Grants, 2017
• Artist Fellowship - Creative Glass Center of America, Wheaton Arts Center, 2014
• Artist Grant - Sari Dienes Foundation, 2011

Education

• Masters Degree in Fine Art - Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts
• Bachelors Degree in Art - California College of Art

Solo Exhibitions

• Chaos/Light, Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, NY, 2025
• Animal Dreams, Bau Gallery, Beacon, NY, 2024
• New Works on Paper, Union Art Center, Sparkhill, NY, 2019
• Drawing With Fire, Spring SoHo Natural, New York, NY, 2019
• River Drawings, Arts Alliance of Haverstraw, Haverstraw, NY, 2010-2011
• Vessels, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, 2009
• Pindar Gallery, New York, NY, 1992

Selected Two-Person Exhibitions

• Flow, Lagstein Gallery, Nyack, NY, 2022
• Aftermaeth Installation, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, 2011
• River That Runs Both Ways, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, 2011
• Riverbed Installation, Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY, 2004
• New Work, 93 South Gallery, Nyack, NY, 1997
• International Exhibitions
• Me Too Medusa, Kultusciok Arts Collective, Domicella, Italy, 2019
• Fortuna Aversa Performance, Strozzi Museum, Florence, Italy, 2016
• The Net Gallery, Florence, Italy, 2005-2006
• The Fifth Annual International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Florence Italy, 2005

Selected Group Exhibitions

• Ephemeral, Bau Gallery, Beacon, NY 2025
• Elemental, Bau Gallery, Beacon, NY, 2024
• Art + Healing, Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY, 2023\
• Between the Sacred and the Secular, Upstate Art Weekend, Garner Arts Center,
• Garnerville, NY, 2023
• Unleashed, AHA Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2022
• Every Woman Biennial, Superchief Gallery NFT, New York, NY, 2021
• Connected Fragments, 208 Bowery, New York, NY, 2021
• Members Show, Garnerville Arts Center, Garnerville, NY, 2020
• Clay Works, Epperson Gallery of Ceramic Arts, Crockett, California, 2019
• Room, Loveland Museum Art Gallery, Loveland, Colorado, 2019
• Viridian Artists Inc. Twenty-ninth International Juried Exhibition, 2018
• Transitional Spaces, Mercy Gallery, Richmond Art Center, 2018
• Burning Man Art Festival, Black Rock City, Nevada, 2017
• Nasty Women Exhibition, Queens, NY, 2017
• Contemporary Perspectives: Drawing on Big Ideas, Lewis Art Gallery, Milsaps College,
• Jackson, Mississippi, 2016
• Dissection, Downtown Artery, Fort Collins, Colorado, 2016
• Governors Island Art Fair, New York, NY 2015
• Natures Eyes, Sculpture in the Garden, Back to Earth Living, Pomona, NY, 2015
• Stream of Consciousness Installation, Garner Arts Center, 2015
• Nature, Inc, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY, 2015
• The Body in Eden, Wayfarers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
• Re-Imagine Exhibition, Garner Art Center, Garnerville, NY, 2013
• Fluidity & Fragments, Phoenix Gallery, 3 Person Show, New York, NY, 2008
• Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Contemporary Art Center, 2008
• Adjunct Faculty Exhibition, Kresge Gallery, Ramapo College of NJ, 2008
• Eric Laxman Gallery, Garnerville, NY, 2008Phoenix Gallery, 50th Anniversary Exhibition, NY,
• N.Y., 2008
• Me Too Medusa, Kultusciok Arts Collective, Domicella, Italy, 2019
• Me Too Medusa, Kultusciok Arts Collective, Domicella, Italy, 2019
• New Members Show, Phoenix Gallery, NY, 2007

Permanent Collections

• Creative Glass Center of America, Milford, NJ
• Sinte Gleska University, Rosebud Reservation, Mission, South Dakota
• Rockland Country Day School, Congers, NY
• Private Collection, Victor Williams, Brooklyn, NY
• Private Collection, Gail Hovey, Haverstraw, NY
• Private Collection, Andre Holland, Brooklyn, NY

Professional Experience

• Member of Bau Gallery, Beacon, NY, 2023- present
• Member of the International Art Collective, Art Shape Mammoth, 2014-2018
• President of the Phoenix Art Gallery, NYC, NY, 2010-2014
• Adjunct Professor, LaGuardia College, City University of New York, 2011-present​