JAMES HARRIS
James Harris is a photographer and artist based in London, working internationally across art, design and architecture. His practice spans commissioned photography and his own artworks, which are held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Photography
James creates commissioned photography for architects, interior and furniture designers, galleries, museums and cultural institutions — photographing buildings, interiors, objects and installations, in situ and internationally.
He has photographed nearly every Design Miami fair in Miami, Basel and Paris since 2008. These images have been published widely, including in Vogue, Architectural Digest, Wallpaper*, The Financial Times, Galerie and Cultured.
Clients include David Chipperfield Architects, Zaha Hadid, Eric Parry Architects, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Arup, Ushida Findlay, Achille Salvagni Atelier, Design Miami, Pace Gallery, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Nilufar Gallery, Vitra, USM, Louis Vuitton, WonderGlass, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Artworks
Alongside his commissioned photography, James maintains an independent artistic practice, working across photographic and sculptural media. His work has been exhibited at Pace Gallery New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Barbican, Gabrielle Ammann Gallery in Cologne, the Design Museum, and in Seoul with Duson Gallery, hosted by Harper's Bazaar Art.
He has collaborated with institutions and practitioners including the Royal Academy of Arts, Domaine de Boisbuchet, Konstantin Grcic, Random International and Design Miami. His works are held in the permanent collections of the V&A, the Royal Academy of Arts, and numerous private collections worldwide.
Recent work includes a large-scale photographic artwork acquired for the permanent collection of the Hearst headquarters in Seoul, and a bronze and ancient oak sculpture exhibited at the Mandarin Oriental, Hanover Square, Mayfair.
Selected Exhibitions & Collections
2026 Gallery BR, Tetbury, The Cotswolds, UK. Gathered Forms, solo exhibition
2025 Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, Hanover Square, London. Elemental Resonance — Nature Reimagined. Centrifugally cast bronze with 5,000-year-old Fenland black oak
2024 Hearst Headquarters, Seoul, Korea. Large-scale photographic artwork acquired for the permanent collection
2023 Duson Gallery, Seoul, South Korea. Harper's Bazaar Art Korea, 10th Anniversary Exhibition. Multiple large-scale photographic artworks
2022 SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea. MOM MAM exhibition. Large-scale photographic artwork
2019 American Irish Historical Society, 991 Fifth Avenue, New York. Canto XIX, group exhibition
2017 Royal Academy of Arts, London. Commissioned to create a set of images representing 250 years of the Royal Academy
2016 Pace Gallery, 537 West 24th Street, New York. Large framed photographic artwork, in conjunction with Random International's On the Body
2016 René Barownick, Marylebone, London. Leafscapes, solo exhibition
2013 Design Museum, London. Collaboration with Random International on a large-scale photographic artwork representing the Rain Room installation, for the Designer of the Year Awards
2012 Barbican Curve Gallery, London. Framed photographic prints representing Random International's Rain Room
2012 Gabrielle Ammann Gallery, Cologne. DC Open Exhibition
2011 Domaine de Boisbuchet (Vitra / Centre Pompidou). Collaboration with Moritz Waldemeyer
2009 Gohan and Sabuk, Gangwon-do, South Korea. Artist in residence
2004 Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Photographic print acquired for the permanent collection
1995 University of Newcastle upon Tyne. BA (Hons) Fine Art