Harold Mendez has taken part in numerous exhibitions, including Being: New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York. In addition, his work has been shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Bass Museum, Miami; LAXART, Los Angeles; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; MoMA PS1, New York; the Renaissance Society, Chicago; Project Row Houses, Houston; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among other venues. His work has been reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Artforum, and Frieze. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Headlands Center for the Arts; and the Tamarind Institute, and is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant; the Illinois Arts Council Agency Artist Fellowship; the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship; and the 3Arts Award. Mendez studied at Columbia College Chicago; the University of Science and Technology, School of Art, Ghana, West Africa; and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently based in Los Angeles.