About

Me.

Jerron Herman is an artist compelled to create images of freedom.

He has premiered works at Danspace Project, PSNY, and The Whitney. Jerron has activated museums like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum and Guggenheim with daring interdisciplinary installations. Jerron is also the choreographer and co-director of Sensorium Ex, a new opera composed by Paola Prestini with libretto by Brenda Shaugnessey. His writings have been published in the US and abroad including Art Papers and his play, 3 Bodies, for Theater Magazine in 2022. He is a part of INTERIM, a boutique centering joy for disabled artists helmed by Candace Feldman that includes Molly Joyce and Christopher Unpezverde Nuñez. Other accolades include a 2024 USA Fellowship, 2023 Visiting Artist for FokusTanz #10 Kampnagel, 2023-24 Fellowship at 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, 2021 Jerome Hill Fellowship in Dance from the Jerome Foundation, and a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship.

His artistry is guided by interdisciplinary experiences from being a guest critic at Columbia GSAPP to gracing exhibitions for 1969 Gallery, LOMAA Ontario, and ICAPhiladelphia (Carolyn Lazard).

In addition to his award-winning works in 2019, Jerron’s pieces include PHYS ED (2018) which premiered at Gibney Dance Center following in-progress showings at Marlboro College and Snug Harbor. a Rest, a multimedia P.E. simulation involving looped video of the dance and an adjoining choreo-map, exhibited at the Dedalus Foundation in ABS’ Art & Disability Cohort’s show, Means of Egress, curated by Lisa Dent. Untitled Red (2019), was a cyclical movement response to Constantina Zavitsanos’ first solo show, L&D Motel, at Participant, Inc.

Jerron is an advisor for NEFA National Dance Project and served on the Board of Trustees at Dance/USA from 2017-2023, including as Vice Chair. He’s been a Selection Committee member for the NY Performing Arts “Bessie’s” Awards and also served on panels for NYSCA, Dance/NYC, The Lark, Eyebeam, and Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. As a curator, Jerron facilitated the series Access Check 2.0: Mapping Accessibility for the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. In 2021 he developed a speaking series for the Joyce Theater called Discourse: Disabled Artists at the Joyce, bringing together NYC-based disabled artists to showcase their work across three distinct conversations. In addition, his writings on arts and culture have been published in the US and internationally and his play, 3 Bodies, appears in Theater Magazine’s May/June 2022 issue.

Jerron has also been featured as a model for Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, Chromat, and FFORA campaigns. He modeled a prototype of adaptive wear he consulted on during Nike’s Fashion Week show in 2018. He serves as an Ambassador for the Cerebral Palsy Foundation and regularly works with designers and artisans to realize beauty.

From 2011-2019 Jerron was a core member of Heidi Latsky Dance, having been featured at Lincoln Center, ADF, and abroad in Greece and Armenia in tandem with his occupation as the Development Director from 2017-2019. He’s since joined Disability Arts collective Kinetic Light as a choreographic collaborator realizing the work Wired. Jerron has guest lectured at The New School, NYU, Harvard University and was the Artist/Scholar in Residence at Georgetown. He was also a visiting choreographer for Mark Morris Dance Group’s Student Company. He studied Playwriting at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts and received a B.A. from The King’s College.