Dr. Sharon Harper

Biography

Sharon Harper’s work explores technology perception through experimental photography and video, creating poetic connections with the living environment. Her work is featured in the permanent collections of major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Harper has received prestigious fellowships including the Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography and several residency fellowships at notable locations like the MacDowell Colony and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her recent project, 'Some Observations of Movements of Earth,' is an ongoing series of photographs supported by the Guggenheim Foundation and Harvard University’s Climate Change Solutions Fund, which focuses on land formations and geological phenomena that shape the landscape over deep time. The series is currently examining how rapid transformative processes such as landslides and coastal erosion affect the land within human time spans. Harper's works have been published in a monograph by Radius Books in 2013 and are represented by Rick Wester Fine Art in New York.

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