Artist Profile
Versia Harris
Interdisciplinary artist from Barbados
Versia Harris is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and work in Barbados. Harris has done a number of residences in the Caribbean and North and South America, including Vermont Studios Center, Vermont and Alice Yard residency, Trinidad and has shown in multiple countries including, England, China, Nigeria, Russia, Germany, Aruba and the US. Her first solo show in 2015 in Barbados was titled “This Quagmire”. She was awarded a Fulbright Laspau Scholarship in 2017 and received her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan USA in May, 2019, where she also earned a Mercedes-Benz Financial Services New Beginnings Award.