Sharon Harper

Artist Biography

Sharon Harper works at the intersection of technology and perception. Her photographs are in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, and the Portland Art Museum, Portland Oregon, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, and The New York Public Library among other collections. She has received numerous artist-in-residence fellowships including at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, the MacDowell Colony, and at the Ucross Foundation. In 2013, Harper received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Photography. She was named a Meredith S. Moody Residency Fellow and an Elizabeth Ames Fellow at Yaddo, and the Sam and Dusty Boynton Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center. The first mongraph of her work, From Above and Below, was published by Radius Books in the fall 2012. She is a Professor in the Visual and Environmental Studies Program at Harvard University.

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