Dominic Harris

Dominic Harris creates immersive digital artworks that explore the intersection of nature, imagination, and technology. Recognised as a prominent figure in the field of interactive art, Harris is known for pioneering fully immersive installations that respond dynamically to the presence and behaviour of viewers. His work is defined by a unique fusion of traditional artistic techniques and bespoke digital engineering, resulting in experiences that are both visually poetic and conceptually layered. Curator Sunny Cheung describes Harris’s work as carrying “a thread of existentialism,” shaped by recurring motifs—flowers, petals, butterflies—and a sustained fascination with metamorphosis and transformation.

Dominic Harris creates immersive digital artworks that explore the intersection of nature, imagination, and technology. His practice is defined by a distinctive fusion of traditional artistic craftsmanship with custom-built digital systems, resulting in interactive environments that evolve in response to the viewer’s presence. Curator Sunny Cheung describes Harris’s work as carrying “a thread of existentialism,” shaped by recurring motifs—flowers, petals, butterflies—and a deep fascination with metamorphosis and transformation. These elements reappear throughout his work, not only for their visual poetry but for their capacity to reflect on fragility, renewal, and our place within a rapidly shifting world.

Harris’s recent works continue to expand this conceptual landscape. The Promise of Babylon (2025) presents a dreamlike garden suspended in space—a luminous globe of perpetually blooming flora whose seasons shift at the viewer’s touch, defying the natural decay of time. In Sounds of Liberty (2025), an American flag composed of hand-painted digital butterflies dissolves with each interaction, revealing real-time headlines and media noise beneath its symbolic order. These pieces build upon earlier works such as NeoBloom, in which imagined digital flowers bloom eternally, and Spectrum, a hypnotic arrangement of butterflies in kaleidoscopic formation, disturbed and re-harmonized by the viewer’s gestures.

Another key facet of Harris’s practice is his reimagining of cultural iconography. In his official Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs artwork, created in collaboration with Disney, Harris playfully disrupts the familiar fairytale with unexpected layers of interaction and behaviour. Each character, faithfully rendered yet algorithmically empowered, gains a sense of autonomy—subtly questioning themes of obedience, agency, and narrative control within one of the most recognisable stories in animation history.

Trained as an architect, Harris brings a rigorous material sensibility to his digital creations. Each artwork is meticulously designed and fabricated within his London studio, where a team of engineers, designers, and craftspeople help bring his vision to life. The result is a body of work that invites direct participation—encouraging viewers to move, touch, and reflect—while seamlessly blending aesthetic wonder with conceptual depth. Harris’s art does not merely depict transformation; it offers a space in which to experience it.

TRAINING
2003 BA, Architecture, Bartlett School, University College London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Feeding Consciousness, Halcyon Gallery, London, UK
2019 Dominic Harris: Imagine, Halcyon Gallery, London, UK
2019 Beating Wings, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
2018 The Salon New York, New York, USA
2016 5 Year Celebration, Priveekollektie Contemporary Art | Design, London, UK
2015 Moments of Reflection, PHOS ART + DESIGN, London, UK
2009 Dublin Science Museum, Dublin, Ireland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Sacred and Profane, Halcyon Gallery, London, UK
2024 In Plain Sight, Halcyon Gallery, London, UK
2023 The Salon New York, New York, USA
2023 Disney100, The ExCel London, London, UK
2023 Infidels, Halcyon Gallery, London, UK
2022 High Fidelity, London, UK
2020 US NOW, Halcyon Gallery, London, UK
2019 Beating Wings, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
2019 PAD Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
2018 Art Miami, Florida, USA
2018 The Salon New York, New York, USA
2018 If So, What?, San Francisco, USA
2017 Design Miami/Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2015 Desire: Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 London Design Festival, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2009 Dublin Science Museum, Dublin, Ireland
2009 Kinetica, London, UK

PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
2024 Origins of Imagination, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
2023 Every Wing Has A Silver Lining, Commission, Viva, Norwegian Cruise Lines
2022 UNSEEN, Commission, Annabel's, London
2021 All That Flutters Turns To Gold, Commission, Ouronyx, London, UK
2020 US NOW, Group Show, Halcyon Gallery, London, UK
2019 Imagine, Solo Show, Halcyon Gallery, London, UK
2019 Swell, Commission, Spectrum of the Seas, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
2015 Concentric Study, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2014 Emergence, Caviar House & Prunier, London, UK
2009 Beacon, Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
2009 DJ Light, Lima, Peru