Robert Harrison
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Robert Harrison received his BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and is currently working on a MFA at the University of New Mexico where he also teaches photography.  Harrison's work addresses environmental concerns as well as issues surrounding a post-industrial wasteland which he perceives to be the result of our consumption-obsessed society.  In his work he finds new uses for discarded objects. These objects often take on new functions such as machines that catch clouds, listening devices, or chandeliers which create water. In all of his work Harrison attempts to show the tenuous friction between the fragile earth and our technological existence.

In addition to teaching at the University New Mexico, he has taught at summer programs for elementary and high school students in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Missouri.  Also while at the Art Institute, he interned for the Hallmark photographic Archives. His works have been included in Zone  Magazine, and shows at the Allen Street Gallery, Dallas, Texas; North Light Gallery, Tempe, Arizona; and the Society of Contemporary Photography, Kansas City.