Interdisciplinary Artist | Musician | Researcher

Founder | Environmental Transformist

Interdisciplinary artist, musician, and researcher Li(sa E.) Harris uses voice, theremin, electronics, movement, improvisation, meditation, and new media to explore healing in performance and living. Li is trained as a classical voice/opera singer and performs across a wide range of genres and mediums. She is a certified facilitator of DEEP LISTENING®, the sonic philosophies of composer Pauline Oliveros. Li starred in the 2017 world premiere of The Nubian Word for Flowers- a Phantom Opera by Pauline Oliveros and Ione produced by the International Contemporary Ensemble, and in 2023 made her Carnegie Hall debut in Pauline at 90, a celebratory concert led by flautist Claire Chase in honor of Oliveros' legacy.

The founder/creative director of the socially engaged creative arts studio, Studio Enertia, Li has been the recipient of numerous awards that include a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts and the 2021 Dorothea Tanning Award in Music/Sound from the Foundation for Contemporary Art. In 2022, Li was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and a Harvard ArtLab Artist in Residence. Recent solo exhibitions include Unlit: Sof Landin (Ballroom Marfa, 2023), D.R.E.A.M.= A Way to Afram (Diverse Works, 2023), and This is the Day (Lawndale Art Center, 2024). She wrote, directed and produced Cry of the Third Eye: a new opera film in Three Acts, a decade long meditation on legacy, loss, and gentrification in Third Ward Houston,Texas. Her albums include Life and That( Studio Enertia 2021) Cry of the Third Eye Original Soundtrack (Studio Enertia 2017), The Last Resort Original Soundtrack (2019), and EarthSeed, her co-composition with composer/flautist Nicole M. Mitchell (FPE Records 2020). She appears on pianist Jason Moran's Grammy nominated album All Rise: a Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller (Blue Note Records 2014) and Robert Glasper's Grammy Award Winning album Black Radio III (Blue Note Records 2022.)