Denja Harris is a San Diego–based artist whose tactile yarn paintings and soft sculptures bridge traditional and contemporary fiber art. Her practice considers softness as both material and metaphor, weaving narratives of vulnerability, memory, and transformation.
Her process is intuitive and improvisational, allowing materials and methods to respond in real time. Working with both dead-stock and new yarns, her work moves between materiality, function, and abstraction, exploring how color and texture serve as sites of connection. She is currently interested in time, change, and temporality, reflecting on shifting relationships within the unknown and the space between.
Denja has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Oceanside Museum of Art, McDonough Museum of Art, and San Diego Design Week, and has presented workshops and demonstrations at institutions including San Diego City College and Mingei International Museum.
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