Sharon Harper’s (she/her) work explores technology and perception. Her experimental work uses photography and video to create poetic connections between ourselves and the environment.  Harper’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Harvard Art Museum, the New York Public Library, and the Denver Art Museum among others. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Elizabeth Ames Residency Fellowship at Yaddo, a Sam and Dusty Boynton Residency Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, and residency fellowships at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Monastery of Halsnøy, Norway and the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest in Kentucky. A monograph of her work, From Above and Below, was published by Radius Books in 2013.

Harper’s most recent work Some Observations on Movements of the Earth is an ongoing series of photographs supported by the Guggenheim Foundation in 2014-2015, the Harvard University Climate Change Solutions Fund 2019-2019 and the Harvard University Asia Center 2019.

SELECT Exhibitions

• Sharon Harper: Returning Light, Rivalry Projects, 2021

• Ansel Adams in Our Time, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2021

• Gathering Clouds: Photographs from the Nineteenth Century and Today, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, 2020

• Apollo’s Muse, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, 2019

• New Territory: Landscape Photography Today, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, 2018

• Sharon Harper: From Above and Below, Hermès Foundation Gallery, New York, New York, 2014

• Sharon Harper: Shifting Views, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, New York, 2014

• Sea and Sky, Halsnøy Kloster, Halsnøy, Norway, 2013

• Sharon Harper: Night and Day, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany, 2012

• Sharon Harper: Photographs from the Floating World, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, 2001