New York–based artist Kira Lynn Harris received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1999. Her work has been shown at P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, the Miami Art Museum, and the Studio Museum of Harlem, where she also was Artist-in-Residence from 2001 to 2002. Harris, a member of the arts collective Nomads and Residents, designed the sets for Via Sacra, a work by the Elisa Monte Dance company at New York’s Joyce Theater, in 2005.