Photo by Brittni Ann Harvey
Harry Gould Harvey IV (b. 1991) lives and works in Fall River, MA. Drawing inspiration from the ecological fabric of his native South Coast Region, Harvey deconstructs the building blocks of empire and illuminates the weight of anonymous labor. Foraging materials from downed or cut trees, destroyed Gilded Age mansions, dilapidated factories, gutted Gothic churches, and his subconscious, Harvey creates mystical and diagrammatic drawings housed inside hand-built wood frames akin to reliquaries and large-scale sculptural installations that evoke lost histories of marginalized artisanship and backbreaking toil in the name of American industry and luxury. Harvey’s recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Sick Metal, P·P·O·W, New York, NY; LEVEL LEVEL, Cordova, Barcelona, Spain; List Projects 29: Brittni Ann Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; An Anathema Strikes the Flesh of the Laboror, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale on the Hudson, NY; and Arrows of Desire, with Faith Wilding, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; among others. He participated in the 2021 New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, as well as the 2022 group exhibition Door to the Atmosphere at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, from which a work was acquired for the museum’s permanent collection. Additionally, his works belong to the collections of KADIST, San Francisco, CA and Paris, France, as well as the RISD Museum, Providence, RI. Harvey is the founder of the curatorial project Pretty Days and co-founder of the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall River, MA. Harvey was recently featured in Nostalgic Mayfly, a group exhibition presented by StillShow by Stilllife at the Rockbund Compound in Shanghai, China. P·P·O·W will present Harvey in a solo booth at the inaugural edition of Post-Fair, Los Angeles, CA, taking place February 20 – 22.
Harry Gould Harvey IV
b. 1991, Fall River, MA
Lives and works in Fall River, MA
Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2024
LEVEL LEVEL, Cordova, Barcelona, Spain
List Projects 29: Brittni Ann Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2023
Sick Metal, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
An Anathema Strikes the Flesh of the Laborer, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY
2021
Arrows of Desire, with Faith Wilding, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
The Confusion of Tongues!, Bureau, New York, NY
2019
Coniunctio, Harry Gould Harvey IV & Kyung-Me, Bureau, New York, NY
2018
NADA, Chicken Coop Contemporary, Miami, FL
EARTH CRISIS, Samantha Durand & Harry Gould Harvey IV, Alyssa Davis Gallery, NY
Amen, Thanks Computer God!, Harry Gould Harvey IV & Jesse Sullivan, Freddy, Harris, NY
Prudence, Patience, Hope & Despair, Motel, Brooklyn, NY
Harry Gould Harvey IV, with Species, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2017
A Divine Image, André Fortes & Harry Gould Harvey IV, Chicken Coop Contemporary, Portland, OR
2016
An Inconvenient Hoax, Brittni Ann Harvey & Harry Gould Harvey IV, Farewell Books, Austin, TX
2015
Self Titled, Farewell Books, Austin, TX
House Plants, Brittni Ann Harvey & Harry Gould Harvey IV, Proxy, Providence, RI
2014
Demo, Working Title, Toronto, CA
2013
Star / Fruit, Scott Alario & Harry Gould Harvey IV, Aviary, Boston, MA
Group Exhibitions
2024
Nostalgic Mayfly – StillShow by Stilllife, Rockbund Compound, Shanghai, China
The Moon is Just the Sun At Night, curated with Francesca Altamura, Jack Barrett, New York, NY
Winter in America, curated by Apartment 13, Pop Gun, New York, NY
2023
rhi•zome, curated by Adrienne Greenblatt, No Gallery, New York, NY
2022
The Body is Sacrament, curated by KJ Freeman, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria
Door to the Atmosphere, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
The New England Triennial, Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA
2021
Recovery, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York, NY
2020
Sâr Dubnotal, CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
Until tomorrow: Ten Years of Bureau, Bureau, New York, NY
Love 2020: Perfect Vision, curated by Rachel Stern, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2019
Enduring Violence, curated by Matthew Tully Dugan, 130 E. Flagler Street, Miami, FL
My Shed Shaped Heart, Hotel Art Pavilion, Brooklyn, NY
Condo New York, Bureau hosting STANDARD (OSLO), New York, NY
SUPERCOOLING, 891 Main, Providence, RI
The Institute for Chaotic Love & Healing, Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Hard To Be A Hole, Kunsthalle Wichita, Wichita, KS
2017
The Paperweight Show, Fisher Parrish, Brooklyn, NY
NADA, curated by Michael Assiff, Motel, New York, NY
2016
Dog, Tree, Table, Grin Contemporary, Providence, RI
2015
J Card, ATM Gallery, Austin, TX
2014
Mute Annotations, Bad News (Presented by V1), Brooklyn, NY
Enlargement Show, Headquarters, Northampton, MA Hindsight, V1, Copenhagen, Denmark
89+, Serpentine Galleries, London, United Kingdom
Curatorial
2020 – Present Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall River, MA
2015 – Present Pretty Days, with Gregory Kalliche, traveling exhibition platform
Public Collections and Foundations
Frye Museum, Seattle, WA
KADIST, San Francisco, CA and Paris, France
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Bibliography
2024
Radley, Jack. “Brittni Ann Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV by Jack Radley,” BOMB Magazine, June 2024.
2023
Wolf, Michael. “Harry Gould Harvey IV: ‘Sick Metal’ at P·P·O·W Gallery,” Whitehot Magazine, August 2023.
2022
Norton, Margot and Jamillah James, editors. Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum Triennial, Phaidon, 2021.
2021
Weisburg, Madeline. “Gilded Labor,” Art in America, March 2021.
Lee, Nathaniel. “Local Turbulence: Art of the Outmoded in New York, Part 1. Harry Gould Harvey IV at Bureau,” Turning Point, February 2021.
McQuaid, Cate. “Fall River’s new art museum is ‘a genuine extension’ of its working-class founders,” The Boston Globe, January 2021.
2020
da Silva, Lurdes C. “Rediscovering culture and heritage through art,” Fall River Herald News, October 2020.
“FABRIC Arts Festival returns to Fall River October 16 – 17,” whatsupnewp.com, September 2020.
Duguid, Rosalind. “These Are the Artists You Need to Watch,” Elephant Magazine, May 2020.
Storm, Rebecca. “Kyung-Me & Harry Gould Harvey IV's Coniunctio,” Editorial Magazine, January 2020. Wu, Danielle. “House of Worship,” The Offing, January 2020.
Fateman, Johanna. “Coniunctio,” The New Yorker, January 2020.
2019
Hatfield, Zack. “Kyung-Me and Harry Gould Harvey IV,” Artforum.com, December
Illustration series with Kyung-Me, Bomb Magazine, Issue 148, p. 120–123.
Chiaverina, John. “Three Bedrooms, One Bathroom and an Art Gallery,” The New York Times Style Magazine, March 2019.
2018
Castro, Alexander. “Pair of Newport County artists ponder ecological threats at NYC gallery,” NewportRI.com, November 2018.
2015
Heinrich, Will. “12 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn and Queens,” The New York Times, April 2015.
Harry Gould Harvey IV
Loaves in the Supersubstantia Oven, 2022
Xerox, charcoal and colored pencil on paper, MDF, Black Walnut from the Newport Mansions
16 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 2 1/4 ins.
41.3 x 26 x 5.7 cm
Harry Gould Harvey IV
Ame O PoemⒶ, 2023
colored pencil, charcoal, xerox, beeswax, encaustic wax, cast white bronze, White Oak and Black Walnut from the Delano Sawmill, New Bedford, MA
32 x 35 x 2 1/4 ins.
81.3 x 88.9 x 5.7 cm
Harry Gould Harvey IV
Garden, 2023
Charcoal and colored pencil on paper, MDF, cast white bronze, stainless steal nails, Black Walnut from the Delano Sawmill, New Bedford, MA, cast white bronze
10 x 14 1/2 x 2 1/4 ins.
25.4 x 36.8 x 5.7 cm
Harry Gould Harvey IV
Magneto Cloud Buster Broken Tub Thumper, 2023
5 found objects (speakers), iron, wax, copper wire, amplification equipment, doorbell
10 1/2 x 204 x 9 ins.
26.7 x 518.2 x 22.9 cm
Harry Gould Harvey IV
Art Is Life_Life Is Death (Antigestmunst-Kunstwerk) Blight Of The Lobeliaciae, 2023
Charcoal, red casting wax, encaustic wax, MDF, stainless steal nails
9 x 12 ins.
22.9 x 30.5 cm
Harry Gould Harvey IV
Regulus Gouldus Harvius Quartus In Leo (Qualia En Sentia Verdiditas), 2023
Charcoal and colored pencil on paper, MDF, whiteout pen, Black Walnut from the Delano Sawmill, New Bedford, MA, White Oak from Prudence Island, antique English Walnut, stainless steal nails, white bronze cinderblocks
10 x 16 x 2 1/4 ins.
25.4 x 40.6 x 5.7 cm
The new Santa Monica Post Office fair, named for its location in a 1938 Art Deco building, promises camaraderie and affordability.
P·P·O·W is pleased to announce the representation of Harry Gould Harvey IV.
Building a pipeline from Fall River to an art world many find exclusionary and far off is personal for the married couple behind Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art.
Venerable artists who double as crackerjack museum directors, Brittni Ann Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV somehow haven’t compromised in either realm.
Harry Gould Harvey IV: Sick Metal
P.P.O.W. Gallery
Through August 4, 2023
At P.P.O.W, New York, the artist presents drawings, sculptures and installations created from the material and spiritual detritus of his Massachusetts hometown
New York galleries are currently observing “summer hours” (closed on weekends), but there are some exceptional under-the-radar gems worth sneaking out of work a little early on a weekday. Innovation, curiosity, intelligence, and visual sparks link my four favorite gallery exhibitions on view now in New York.
I try to render truths in drawings and carve frames from wood forged from these lands and these properties in Fall River.
In the second installment of GQ’s Fresh Paint series, we visit the studios of four visual artists who are making the art world lively and engaging right now.
