Jerron Herman

Jerron Herman is a dancer and writer who is compelled to create images of freedom. He has premiered works at Danspace Project, Performance Space New York, and The Whitney Museum. Jerron's VITRUVIAN premiered in NYC and has toured to the Baltimore Museum of Art curated by Johns Hopkins University, ODC in San Francisco and a digital release for Lincoln Center with enthusiastic reviews. It tours continuously. His latest, Lax, was commissioned for Stephen Petronio Company’s Bloodlines (future) program and premiered at Battery Dance Festival as well as activated The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  

His artistry has led him to a ceramic residency at the famed EKWC in the Netherlands to exhibitions for 1969 Gallery (Chella Man), LOMAA in Ontario, and ICA Philadelphia (Carolyn Lazard).

Jerron is also the choreographer and co-director of Sensorium Ex, a new opera. 

He curated the speaking series Access Check 2.0 for the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation 2019-2020, and Discourse: Disabled Artists at The Joyce for The Joyce Theater in 2021. His writings have been published in the U.S. and abroad including in Art Papers and Performance Journal. His play, 3 Bodies, was also published in Theater Magazine. As a model, Jerron has worked with HIMS, Rothy’s, Tommy Hilfiger, Samsung x i-D, and Nike.

He is gladly a part of INTERIM, a boutique management consortium centering joy for disabled artists helmed by Candace Feldman that includes Molly Joyce and Christopher Unpezverde Nuñez. Other gracious accolades include Spring 2022 Georgetown Artist/Scholar-in-Residence, Dance Magazine March 2021 cover story, 2021 Grants to Artists Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in Dance from the Jerome Foundation; the 2021 PETRONIO Award and residency, and a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship by the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

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Photo by Adrian McCourt; Black and white photo of Jerron as he crouches against a cracked brick wall, both arms laying to his side

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