Newell Harry (b. 1972, Sydney, Australia) is an artist of South African and Mauritian descent who lives and works in Sydney. His recent interests are the histories of postcolonial and neocolonial conflict, as well as transnational solidarities between the Pacific and South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s. Harry has been included in several significant biennials and institutional exhibitions worldwide, such as the 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (2010); 12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (2011); Suspended Histories, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2013); 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2015); 3rd Montevideo Biennial, Montevideo, Uruguay (2016); Tidalectics, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art 21, Vienna, Austria (2017); The Oceanic, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore (2017); Language is the Only Homeland, Nest, The Hague, Netherlands (2018); Capital, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Ballarat, Australia (2019) and This is a Poem, Buxton Contemporary, University of Melbourne, Australia (2021).
