Black and white photo of Jerron as he crouches against a wall.

Photo credit: Adrian McCourt

Image description: Black and white photo of Jerron as he crouches against a wall.

Jerron Herman is an artist compelled to create images of freedom. He has premiered works at Danspace Project and PSNY. He's also activated museums like The Whitney, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum and Guggenheim with responsive installations. His writings have been published widely including Art Papers and his play, 3 Bodies, for Theater Magazine in 2022 and he was the cover story of Dance Magazine in March 2021. Jerron is also the choreographer and co-director of Sensorium Ex, a new opera. He is a part of INTERIM, Candace Feldman’s boutique consortium centering joy for disabled artists alongside Molly Joyce and Christopher “Unpezverde” Nuñez. Awards include a 2024 United States Artist Fellowship, 2023-24 Fellowship NYU/Center for Ballet and the Arts, a 2021 Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship from the Jerome Foundation as well as a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship from the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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