Biography
Sharon Harper
Born Stamford, Connecticut
Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2010
One Month, Weather Permitting
Rick Wester Fine Art, New York
2009
Twelve Hours From Winter To Spring
Proof Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Flug (Flight)
Cologne Art Fair, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
2008
Projecktraum 4
Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, Germany
Moon Studies and Star Scratches
Stefan Röpke, Cologne
Moon Studies and Star Scratches
Galeria Arnés + Röpke, Madrid, Spain
Moon Studies and Star Scratches
The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2006
Sharon Harper and Helen Mirra
Carpenter Center Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2002
Flug (Flight)
Savage Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2001
First Exposure Sharon Harper: Photographs from the Floating World
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Flug (Flight)
Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, California
2000
Flug (Flight)
Goethe-Institut, New York, New York
Group Exhibitions
2010
Pulse, New York
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
2009
The Moon: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Der Mond
Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany
Pulse, Miami
Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, New York
Zum Strand
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
And the Fair Moon Rejoices
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Arte Fiera, Bologna
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
Visual Stimulus Package
Proof Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2008
Keeping Time
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Troposphere
New York, New York
Clouds, Et Al
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Art Hong Kong
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
International Contemporary Art Fair of Madrid
Galeria Arnés + Röpke, Madrid, Spain
Pulse, Miami
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
Cologne Fine Art Fair
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne
Grounding Works
MassArt, Boston, Massachusetts
2007
Recordings
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
2006
Everything But Paper Prayers
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
International Photography Competition
The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2005
New Faculty
Carpenter Center Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2004
Summertime
sm.ART, Munich, Germany
Art on Paper
Weatherspoon Art Musuem, Greensboro, North Carolina
2003
Celestial
Work Space Gallery, New York, New York
Fresh Picks
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Sublime Metaphor
Oxford University Musuem, Oxford, England
2002
Recent Acquisitions
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Walk Ways
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon
Lost and Found
Savage Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Blurred Vision
Philadelphia Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2001
Aquamarin
UBR Galerie, Salzburg, Austria
2000
Walking
Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Greater New York
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
On Site
Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1997
Blue Lagoon
White Columns Gallery, New York, New York
New York Area MFA Exhibition
Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, New York
Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Buffalo, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, New York
Portland Art Museum. Portland, Oregon
Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York
Bayerische Vereinsbank. Munich, Germany
Sprint Collection. Kansas City, Kansas
Honors
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
Bibliography
Noel Rodo, "On My Mind," foam magazine, December 2009
Moon, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, September 2009
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"
Cate McQuaid, "Sharon Harper Plays with Moon and Sky," Boston Globe, Sept. 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"
Kenneth Baker, "Fall Arts Preview," San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2001
Suart Horodner, "Flug (Flight)"
Krissy Foley, "On Site: Contemporary Photography of Place"
Mira Jacobs, "Walkabout"
Zoe Starling, Interview for artadvocate.com
Publications
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
