Ian Carr-Harris

Ian Carr-Harris RCA (born 1941) is a Canadian artist living in Toronto.

In addition to exhibiting internationally, Carr-Harris is a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design.

[4] Art historian Mark Cheetham describe's Carr-Harris' 1972 installation Nancy Higginson, 1949- as a key example of work at that time which posits viewers "as forgetful machines who must have [their] memories [their] sense of [themselves] as existing over time constantly restored."

"defines" this woman through a primitive memory system, the card catalogue, a textual archive in which the photo of Higginson seems out of place, dominated as it (and so much of our lives) is by language.

[4]In his work Carr-Harris often uses common materials and objects, such as tables and cabinets, which are "domestic in scale, almost banal in appearance, [that] initially present their information through texts.