Jerron Herman is an artist who is compelled to create images of freedom. His own freedom stems from the joyful interplay with forms that support a “soloist who isn’t siloed”. He has premiered works at Danspace Project, Performance Space New York, and The Whitney Museum. Jerron’s VITRUVIAN premiered in NYC and has toured to the Baltimore Museum of Art, curated by Johns Hopkins University, ODC SF and a digital release for Lincoln Center. Jerron has also activated museums like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum and Guggenheim, his “Museum Mile tour”, with responsive interdisciplinary installations for exhibitions and events. Alongside dance, Jerron has exhibited works for 1969 Gallery (Chella Man), LOMAA in Ontario, and ICA Philadelphia (Carolyn Lazard). Jerron is also the choreographer and co-director of Sensorium Ex, a new opera composed by Paola Prestini with libretto by Brenda Shaugnessey and direction by Jay Scheib. His writings have been published in the US and abroad including Art Papers and his play, 3 Bodies, for Theater Magazine in 2022. He was also the cover story in Dance Magazine’s March 2021 issue. Jerron is a part of INTERIM, Candace Feldman’s boutique management consortium centering joy for disabled artists alongside Molly Joyce and Christopher “Unpezverde” Nuñez. Other gracious accolades include a 2024 United States Artist Fellowship, 2023 Visiting Artist for FokusTanz #10 Kampnagel, 2023-24 Fellow at the NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts, 2022 Residency at the European Ceramics Work Centre, 2021 Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in Dance from the Jerome Foundation as well as a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship from the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
