Pat Harris was born in Dublin in 1953. He spent a year as an evening student at the National College of Art and Design before pursuing a full time painting course from 1973 to 1978. He won a scholarship to the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Antwerp graduating in 1981. He has held numerous solo shows in Belgium, Ireland, throughout Europe and the USA. He is currently a lecturer in painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.