RESPOND.

Color photo by Lauren Hall. Jerron’s back in a tan tunic and pants in front of an audience in the rotunda.

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Guggenheim, 2023

Pivotal to Jerron’s practice is creating radical presence. His performance installations, LAX & Temporary Body, restructure museums and galleries into welcoming spaces that animate objects and community through participation and duration.

LAX

Across a 1-2 hour experience, the performer interrogates our perceptions of rest and the tenets of tension & release, offering ecstatic participatory activities of discovery with textiles, others, and ultimately themselves. Always in conversation with another artist or exhibit currently on display.

Color photo of Jerron laying on the ground with his right arm cradling his face while his leg rises behind him

Presentations
Kunstverein-Hannover, 2026
Fralin Museum of Art, UVA, 2025
Zimmerli Museum of Art, Rutgers, 2024
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2023

B/W photo of Jerron and Christopher leaning with a fabric at Jerron's neck

LAX
Created & Performed by Jerron Herman
Soundscape by Jerron Herman
Textiles by Sughanda Gupta
Produced by INTERIM

LAX was originally commissioned by Stephen Petronio Company as part of Bloodlines (future) Program

Temporary Body

Across 1-2 hours, the performer invites participants to adorn themselves and others in crowns, baubles, and bangles toward the creation of a temporarily connected organism, beginning with the individual body. This is in conversation with a complementary exhibition.

Presentations
Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford, 2026
Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, 2024

Color photo of Jerron in white twirling in between an audience in a rotunda

Temporary Body

Created & Performed by Jerron Herman
Soundscape by Molly Joyce
Textiles by Sugandha Gupta
Produced by INTERIM

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