L. Kasimu Harris is a New Orleans-based artist whose practice deposits a number of different strategic and conceptual devices in order to push narratives. He strives to tell stories of underrepresented communities in New Orleans and beyond. 

Harris earned a BBA in Entrepreneurship from Middle Tennessee State University in 2004 and an MA in Journalism from the University of Mississippi in 2008. He has shown in numerous group exhibitions across the US and internationally. His ongoing series Vanishing Black Bars & Lounges (2018–) has been featured in solo exhibitions at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA, and at the Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA. Harris’s writing and photographs were featured in “A Shot Before Last Call: Capturing New Orleans’s Vanishing Black Bars” in The New York Times. His work is in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, LA; The Wedge Collection, Toronto, Canada; Center of Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY; the NoVo Foundation, New York, NY; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN; The Do Good Fund, Columbus, GA; and Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR.