Warren Harris was a member of the Graphic Sketch Club in Philadelphia at the age of fifteen.
He took courses at Cooper Union in New York.
Trained as a draftsman in the Works Progress Administration (WPA), he worked at the Navy Torpedo Plant, 1941 to 1945, Alexandria, Virginia.
Between 1950 and 1958, Warren won prizes, honorable mentions and showings in group exhibitions t the Village Art Center, New York.
He joined the Committee for the Negro in the Arts, 1951, and exhibited in group shows at the Hotel Theresa and Riverside Museum, New York.
He was Scenic Director for '“Heralds of Freedom”, a play performed by the Board of Education at P.S. 192, Bronx, New York.
Warren was an illustrator at the Nam’s Department Store, Brooklyn, New York.
An educator for more than 27 years with the New York City Board of Education in Brooklyn, New York.

Exhibitions

McCall School of Cultural Arts, New York, 1949
One Man Show 135th Street Branch New York Public Library, 1949
Group Art Show Harmon Foundation New York, 1949
8th Watercolor Show Village Art Center, New York, 1950
Pyramid Club Exhibition, Pyramid Club of Philadelphia, 1950
Water color Exhibition, Village Art Center, New York, 1953
Afro-Arts Bizarre, Hotel Theresa Harlem New York, 1954
Brooklyn Artist Biennial Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn New York, 1954
American Art Show, Whitney Museum, New York, 1954
One Man Show, Talladega College, Talladega, Atlanta, Georgia, 1956
National Art Exhibition, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1956
Group Art Show, Commerce Street Restaurant Garden, New York, 1956
Roving Sculpture Show, Village Art Center, New York, 1956
Contemporary Art for the Modern Home, Artist Equity Chapter, New York, 1962
Art Show, Jae Galley, St. Albans, New York, 1966
The Negro in American Painting, NY Council for the United Negro College Fund, 1967
Black Artist, School of Visual Arts, New York, 1970
Collage and Watercolor Show, Hudson Guild Art Galley, New York, 1965
Art in Black and White, Hudson Guild Art Galley, New York, 1986

Publications

250 Years of Afro American Art
R.R. Bowker (1981)
International Library of Afro-American Live and History (1967)