Gloriane Harris

Journey of the Swans

1974

Gloriane Harris was born in 1947 in Santa Monica, California. She says that "the light of the ocean and the beach in Southern California is like nothing anywhere else", and is the greatest influence on her painting. Gloriane Harris earned her MFA from Otis Art Institute, mentored by, among other notables, Charles White, who is a major influence to countless Los Angeles artists. She worked with Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman on the first artists' worldwide satellite broadcast at Documenta 6 in Kassel, Germany in 1977. Harris has exhibited at museums and galleries across the U.S. and Europe, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, the Newport Art Museum, the Museum of Art and History, the Los Angeles Design Center, Ellie Blankfort, Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Mt. San Antonio College Art Gallery, Foundations Gallery in NYC, the Palais de Beaux Arts in Belgium, and the Fahle Gallery in Estonia. She has been curated into shows by Juri Koll, Peter Frank, John Lees and others, appeared in publications such as Art in America. She is part of the collections of Mrs. Otis Chandler, Vicky & Horace Baker, ViCA and many others. In the late 1980's, Harris withdrew from the art scene and stopped attending openings while continuing to paint daily. From the beginning of her career, Harris has taught countless artists at Otis Art Institute, El Camino College, Cerritos College, among several other institutions, exhibiting there yearly, and has now re-emerged with ViCA.