Description
Sharon Harper’s work explores technology and perception. She uses photography and video experimentally to create poetic connections between ourselves and the environment. Permanent collections that hold Harper’s work include the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, Denver Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art/New York City, Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, The New York Public Library, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and The Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, the Meredith S. Moody Residency Fellowship and the Elizabeth Ames Residency Fellowship at Yaddo, and the Sam and Dusty Boynton Residency Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. Additional residency fellowships include the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Kentucky, Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, MacDowell in New Hampshire, The Monastery of Halsnøy, Norway, Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and. Radius Books published a monograph of her work, From Above and Below, in 2013. Rick Wester Fine Art in New York City represents her work.
