Jerron Herman is a disabled artist working in dance and text to facilitate welcoming. He has premiered pieces at Danspace Project, Performance Space New York, and The Whitney Museum. Jerron's most recent work VITRUVIAN premiered in May 2022, with a digital release in July. Tours have included the Baltimore Museum of Art curated by Johns Hopkins University and ODC in San Francisco. He began his training as a company member with Heidi Latsky Dance from 2011-2019 and is a collaborating member of Kinetic Light’s WIRED. Jerron is a part of INTERIM, a boutique management consortium for disabled artists that includes Molly Joyce and Christopher Unpezverde Nuñez.
Jerron has served on the Board of Trustees at Dance/USA since 2017, most recently 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. He curated the series Access Check 2.0: Mapping Accessibility for the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation from 2019-2020 and Discourse: Disabled Artists at The Joyce for The Joyce Theater in 2021. Jerron writes extensively on art & culture and his play, 3 Bodies, is published in Theater Magazine’s June 2022 issue. As a model and advocate, Jerron has worked with HIMS, Rothy’s, Tommy Hilfiger, Samsung x i-D, and Nike. Other accolades include Spring 2022 Georgetown Artist/Scholar-in-Residence, Dance Magazine cover story in March 2021, a 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 as well as a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship by the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Jerron Herman is a disabled artist working in dance and text to facilitate welcoming. He has premiered pieces at Danspace Project, Performance Space New York, and The Whitney Museum. Jerron's most recent work VITRUVIAN premiered in May 2022, with a digital release in July. Tours have included the Baltimore Museum of Art curated by Johns Hopkins University and ODC in San Francisco. He began his training as a company member with Heidi Latsky Dance from 2011-2019 and is a collaborating member of Kinetic Light’s WIRED. Jerron is a part of INTERIM, a boutique management consortium for disabled artists that includes Molly Joyce and Christopher Unpezverde Nuñez.
Jerron has served on the Board of Trustees at Dance/USA since 2017, most recently 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. He curated the series Access Check 2.0: Mapping Accessibility for the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation from 2019-2020 and Discourse: Disabled Artists at The Joyce for The Joyce Theater in 2021. Jerron writes extensively on art & culture and his play, 3 Bodies, is published in Theater Magazine’s June 2022 issue. As a model and advocate, Jerron has worked with HIMS, Rothy’s, Tommy Hilfiger, Samsung x i-D, and Nike. Other accolades include Spring 2022 Georgetown Artist/Scholar-in-Residence, Dance Magazine cover story in March 2021, a 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 as well as a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship by the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Jerron Herman is a disabled artist working in dance and text to facilitate welcoming. He has premiered pieces at Danspace Project, Performance Space New York, and The Whitney Museum. Jerron's most recent work VITRUVIAN premiered in May 2022, with a digital release in July. Tours have included the Baltimore Museum of Art curated by Johns Hopkins University and ODC in San Francisco. He began his training as a company member with Heidi Latsky Dance from 2011-2019 and is a collaborating member of Kinetic Light’s WIRED. Jerron is a part of INTERIM, a boutique management consortium for disabled artists that includes Molly Joyce and Christopher Unpezverde Nuñez.
Jerron has served on the Board of Trustees at Dance/USA since 2017, most recently 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. He curated the series Access Check 2.0: Mapping Accessibility for the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation from 2019-2020 and Discourse: Disabled Artists at The Joyce for The Joyce Theater in 2021. Jerron writes extensively on art & culture and his play, 3 Bodies, is published in Theater Magazine’s June 2022 issue. As a model and advocate, Jerron has worked with HIMS, Rothy’s, Tommy Hilfiger, Samsung x i-D, and Nike. Other accolades include Spring 2022 Georgetown Artist/Scholar-in-Residence, Dance Magazine cover story in March 2021, a 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 as well as a 2020 Disability Futures Fellowship by the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
