“Catharsis holds a mighty sway over what I choose to make because I believe we often respond to the story that mirrors our humanity. It’s important to me that art helps its witnesses to feel.”
Jerron Herman is a dancer and writer who is compelled to create images of freedom. Herman has premiered works at Danspace Project, Performance Space New York, and the Whitney Museum, with tours to the Baltimore Museum of Art, ODC San Francisco, and a digital release for the Lincoln Center. His latest, Lax, was commissioned by Stephen Petronio Company and premiered at Battery Dance Festival and activated the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. His artistry has led him to a ceramic residency at the famed EKWC in the Netherlands and exhibitions for 1969 Gallery, LOMAA in Ontario, and ICA Philadelphia, as part of Carolyn Lazard: Long Take.
Herman is also the choreographer and codirector of Sensorium Ex, a new opera. He has curated multiple series for venues like the Rubin Foundation and The Joyce. His writings have been published in the US and abroad, including in Art Papers and Performance Journal. His play, 3 Bodies, was also published in Theater Magazine.
Herman is part of INTERIM, a boutique management centering joy for disabled artists helmed by Candace Feldman that includes Molly Joyce and Christopher Unpezverde Nuñez. Accolades include a 2023–24 Fellowship at the NYU/Center for Ballet and the Arts, a Spring 2022 Georgetown Artist/Scholar in Residence, a Dance Magazine March 2021 cover story, a 2021 Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a 2021–2022 Jerome Hill Fellowship in Dance from the Jerome Foundation, the 2021 PETRONIO Award and residency, and a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship from the Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation.