[1] Kira Lynn Harris was born in 1963 in Los Angeles, California and died in 2024 in New York City, aged 61 years old.
[6][7] Critics have described her work as "minimal," making use of installation, drawing, photography, and video to express "formal concerns of space, light and the phenomenological with issues of individual subjectivity.
[10] Of her work, Harris explains, "My projects often provide a disorienting encounter for the viewer: in my installations I am concerned with destabilization and re-orientation.
To achieve this I often create architectural and environmental interventions – by using light and reflective surfaces; by inverting subject and object or figure and ground; and/or by reversing up and down, exterior and interior.
"[11] Harris stated that her work was influenced by artists like James Turrell, Mark Rothko, and the Hudson River School painters.