P·P·O·W is pleased to announce the representation of Harry Gould Harvey IV. Born and raised in the post-industrial city of Fall River, MA, and Narragansett Bay, RI, Harvey draws inspiration from the ecological fabric of his native South Coast Region to deconstruct the building blocks of empire and illuminate 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.

The restorative nature of Harvey’s practice also extends beyond the studio. In 2020, Harvey and his wife, artist Brittni Ann Harvey, co-founded the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art (FR MoCA), a collaborative art space grounded in the social and cultural wellbeing of Fall River and the Greater South Coast Region. Creating programming in dialogue with the global contemporary art world while engaging in regional history and shared experiences, FR MoCA exists in a perpetual state of experimentation and exploration, working with varied collaborators to illuminate the shadows of past industries, allocate cultural resources, and break down the hierarchies of access to art.

Harvey recently presented his solo exhibition, LEVEL LEVEL, at Cordova, Barcelona, Spain, and a two-artist exhibition with Brittni Ann Harvey, List Projects 29, at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. His work is currently on view through November 11 as part of Nostalgic Mayfly, a group exhibition presented by StillShow by Stilllife at Shanghai Art Week, Shanghai, China.

Harry Gould Harvey IV (b. 1991) lives and works in Fall River, MA. Harvey has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at P·P·O·W, New York, NY; David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; Bureau, New York, NY; Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, NY; Freddy, Harris, NY; Motel, Brooklyn, NY; and Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; among others. He has been featured in group exhibitions at Jack Barrett, New York, NY; Pop Gun, New York, NY; No Gallery, New York, NY; Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria; Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA; CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France; LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY; Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA; Kunsthalle Wichita, Wichita, KS; Fisher Parrish, Brooklyn, NY; Grin Contemporary, Providence, RI; ATM Gallery, Austin, TX; and Serpentine Galleries, London, UK; among others. Harvey participated in the 2021 New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone and the 2022 group exhibition Door to the Atmosphere at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA. In 2023, Harvey presented An Anathema Strikes the Flesh of the Laborer at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY. Works by Harvey belong to the collections of the Frye Museum, Seattle, WA; KADIST, San Francisco, CA, and Paris, France; and the RISD Museum, Providence, RI. He has been featured in numerous publications, including BOMB, Frieze, Whitehot, Art21, GQ, and Art in America.