Heaven & Hell

TJ Norris is an award-winning multidisciplinary conceptual artist based in Fort Worth, TX. He studied at Massachusetts College of Art and the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Norris' film work has been sparse in the past but has included: a short titled 'auto-porto-matic' which was included in DCTV's Film Fest (1993, NYC) curated by Cheryl Dunye, and 'Infinitus' (2-Channel Installation, 72 mins, 2008) recipient of the Couture Grant (New American Art Union, OR).

Over the last decade his work has been included in the Red Dot Art Festival and Aqua Miami, as well as participation in art residencies with both Caldera (Oregon) and Kimmel Harding Nelson Art Center (Nebraska). Norris’ work has been reviewed in Art Ltd, Leonardo (MIT Press), Photographer’s Forum, The Oregonian, The Boston Globe and many other publications and has been featured in Tacoma Art Museum's 10th Northwest Biennial, A4 Art Museum (Chengdu, China), South Bend Museum of Art, Millepiani (Rome), CoCA Seattle, the Oregon Center on Photographic Art and many other institutions. His work explores the abstract psychology and social complexities of the urban environment. Examples of his work are held in various international private collections, as well as the Vanhaerents Art Collection (Brussels), Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fuller Museum of Art, the Museum de la Cuidad, Harvard University, Nike, and the RACC’s Visual Chronicle Collection. In 2018 Norris published his first monograph of photographic work titled ‘Shooting Blanks’ (2008-2013). Between the early 1990’s and 2013 he also spent years working as a freelance curator bringing shows to institutions as diverse as Tufts University Aidekman Art Center, SUNY/Binghamton Art Museum, Miller Fine Art Center, University of Oregon, Roland Dille Center for the Arts, Newspace Center for Photography, Boise State Visual Art Center and his own gallery/art space - Soundvision, among others.