Sharon Harper uses photography and video to explore perceptions that we cannot experience without the camera. The work questions the seamless surface of photography and shifts attention to a relationship between the camera and perceptual processes we rely upon to make sense of photographs. The collection of photographs maps invisible experience using markers from the natural world to help locate our selves in relationship with phenomena beyond us. Her photographs and video pieces draw on scientific and artistic uses of photography to illuminate existential concerns, embracing photography’s contradictory ability to verify empirical evidence and evoke fantastical possibilities. In the work, the camera serves as a prosthetic that generates its own limits and logic. It impacts the record it keeps, which is ultimately a visual dialogue transcribed by the image-maker and the camera together. This relationship is a metaphor for the myriad ways technology and art affect and ultimately facilitate our understanding of our surroundings.
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School of Visual Arts, New York, M.F.A.
Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, New York
Halsnoy Kloster, Halsnoy, Norway
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne,
Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, New York
Galeria Arnés + Röpke, Madrid, Spain
Proof Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts,
Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, Germany
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
Galeria Arnés + Röpke, Madrid, Spain
The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Carpenter Center Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Savage Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, California
Goethe-Institut. New York, New York
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas
Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Chelsea Art Museum, New York, New York
SCAD Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Harvard University Center for Government and International Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, New York
Autry National Center, Los Angeles, California
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany
Mills Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Proof Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Hampshire House, New York, New York
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
MassArt, Boston, Massachusetts
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Carpenter Center Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
sm.ART Gallery, Munich, Germany
Weatherspoon Art Musuem, Greensboro, North Carolina
Work Space Gallery, New York, New York
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Oxford University Musuem, Oxford, England
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
Savage Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Philadelphia Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
UBR Galerie, Salzburg, Austria
Bucknell Art Gallery. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
White Columns Gallery, New York, New York
Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, New York
Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, New York
Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Buffalo, New York
Portland Art Museum. Portland, Oregon
Nelson-Atkins Museum. Kansas City, Missouri
New York Public Library. New York, New York
Bayerische Vereinsbank. Munich, Germany
Sprint Collection. Kansas City, Kansas
Monastery of Halsnøy, Norway, Residency Fellowship
Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, Residency Fellowship
Film Studies Center Fellowship, Harvard University Film Studies Center
First Prize, Juror’s selection, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Juror, Stephen Pinson, curator of photographs New York Public Library
Ucross Foundation, Ucross, Wyoming, Residency Fellow
Yaddo, Meredith S. Moody Residency Fellowship
Vermont Studio Center, Sam and Dusty Boynton Residency Fellowship
Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist-in-Residence
The Aaron Siskind Foundation, Grant
The MacDowell Colony, Resident Fellow
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Resident Fellowships
ArtLink@Sotheby's International Young Art 2000, Semi-finalist
Stephen Pinson, “Sharon Harper: Night and Day” (exhibition brochure)
Congyun Liu, “Interview with Sharon Harper,” Photoworld Beijing, Issue 347, pp. 126 – 129, 2010/11
Minna Proctor, “Cover Artist,” The Literary Review, Spring 2010
Minna Proctor, “Artists on Artists,” BOMB Magazine, March 2010
Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, “On My Mind,” foam magazine, December 2009
Helga Aurisch, The Moon: “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” Museum of Fine Art, Houston, September 2009 (exhibition catalog)
Cate McQuaid, All the Way Down to the Details,” Boston Globe, April 8, 2009
Mark Feeney, “Tracing the Outlines of Time,” Boston Globe, November 28, 2008
Salvador Nadales, “Light in Movement: Reflections on the visual work of Sharon Harper” (exhibition catalog)
Cate McQuaid, “Sharon Harper Plays with Moon and Sky,” Boston Globe, September 28, 2006
R.B. Strauss, “Blurred Images Have a Deeper Message,” Daily Local News, February 29, 2002
Kenneth Baker, “Blur from a Speeding Train,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 12, 2002
Vince Aletti, “Voices Choices,” Village Voice, December 26, 2001
Margaret Loke, “Art in Review,” New York Times, November 2, 2001
Jean Dykstra, “Whitney Launches First Exposure,” Art on Paper, Nov. 2001
Sylvia Wolf, “Sharon Harper: Photographs from the Floating World,” (brochure)
Kenneth Baker, “Fall Arts Preview,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2001
Suart Horodner, “Flug (Flight),” (brochure)
Krissy Foley, "On Site: Contemporary Photography of Place," (exhibition catalog)
Mira Jacobs, "Walkabout," (exhibition catalog)
Zoe Starling, Interview for artadvocate.com
From Above and Below, Sharon Harper, Radius Books, 2012
Daylight Magazine, Issue No. 9, November 2011
Humble Art Foundation Collector’s Guide, Volume 2, New York, New York, 2010
Der Mond by Andreas Bluhm, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Foundation Corboud, Cologne and Hantje Cantz, 2009
The Meaning of Photography, Edited by Robin Kelsey and Black Stimson, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and Yale University Press, 2008
Visions From America by Sylvia Wolf. Prestel, 2002
Walk Ways, essay by Stuart Horodner. Independent Curators International, 2002
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