Sharon HARPER

SELECTED SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2019 Some Observations on Movements of the Earth, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, Florida 2014 Sharon Harper: From Above and Below, Hermès Foundation Gallery, New York, New York

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

Sharon Harper: From Above and Below, Galeria Arnés + Röpke, Madrid, Spain

2013 Sharon Harper: From Above and Below, Sala de Arte Instituto Canarias Cabrera Pinto, Tenerife, Canary Islands

Sharon Harper: From Above and Below, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sharon Harper: From Above and Below, dnj gallery, Santa Monica, California

Sharon Harper: From Above and Below, Radius Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Sharon Harper: From Above and Below, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, Colorado Sea and Sky, Halsnøy Kloster, Halsnøy, Norway

2012 Sharon Harper: Night and Day, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany 2010 One Month, Weather Permitting, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, New York

Flug (Flight), Galeria Arnés + Röpke, Madrid, Spain

2009 Twelve Hours from Winter to Spring, Proof Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2008 Moon Studies and Star Scratches, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, Germany

Moon Studies and Star Scratches, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany 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 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

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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

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

Ansel Adams in Our Time, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas Ansel Adams in Our Time, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

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

Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Melbourne, Australia

Circles and Squares, Rick Wester Fine Arts, New York, New York

Kith and Kin: Friends and Mentors of Lesley MFA in Visual Arts, Lesley University, Boston, Massachusetts Le cose che si vedono in cielo (Things Seen in the Sky), Panoràmic Festival, Barcelona, Spain

The Moon: Eternal Pearl, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, Massachusetts 2018 New Territory: Landscape Photography Today, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

Ansel Adams in Our Time, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

Seeing is Understanding, Wayne State University Community Arts Gallery, Detroit, Michigan 2017 Lunar Attraction. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts

2016 Photography and America’s National Parks. George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York

Touch the Sky: Art and Astronomy, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Traces of Time. William Paterson University Galleries, Wayne, New Jersey

2015 Photography and the Scientific Spirit. John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Experience of Place, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

VERZWEIGT! - Trees in Contemporary Art, Museum Sinclair-Haus. Bad Homburg, Germany 2014 Skyward. Weatherspoon Art Museum. Greensboro, North Carolina

Artists for Trees, Grand Central Station Pop-Up Gallery. New York, New York, Supported by TD Bank Heavenly Bodies, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California

The National, Fort Wayne Musuem of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Unfolding Images, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

Process, Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington

Flash of an Instant, New Art Center, Newton, Massachusetts 2013 Revelations, The National Media Museum, London, England

Photographs from the Meredith S. Moody Fellowship Collection, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York

Still Action, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

Flash Forward, Griffin Museum, Winchester, Massachusetts

abstraction: second nature then and now, de Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts Le cose che si vedono in cielo (Things Seen in the Sky), Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy

2012 Terra Incognita, Noorderlicht Photography Festival, Belvédère Museum, Heerenveen, Netherlands Starstruck, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine

Solar, Photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Kunst/Wissenschaft, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany

Magic Realism, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas 2011 Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts,

Heavens, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

SPE: Science and Art, Northlight Gallery, Tempe, Arizona

Humble Art Foundation Collectors Guide, Volume 2, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, New York

SPE: Science and Art, SCAD Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

Remember Then, Harvard University Center for Government and International Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2010 Large Format Photographers, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, New York Skydreamers, Autry National Center, Los Angeles, California,

2009 “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Der Mond, Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany

Zum Strand, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany

And the Fair Moon Rejoices, Mills Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

Visual Stimulus Package, Proof Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts 2008 Recent Acquisitions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Keeping Time, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts Troposphere, Hampshire House, New York, New York

Clouds, Et Al, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

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 Juror, Stephen Pinson, curator of photographs, New York Public Library

2005 New Faculty, Carpenter Center Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2004 Summertime, sm.ART Gallery, Munich, Germany

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina 2003 Celestial, Work Space Gallery, New York, New York

Fresh Picks, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina

Sublime Metaphor, Oxford University Museum, 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 Walk Ways, Bucknell Art Gallery. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Greater New York, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York

On Site, Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 1997 Blue Lagoon, White Columns Gallery, New York, New York

New York Area MFA Exhibition, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, New York

COLLECTIONS

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum of Modern Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

George Eastman House

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Denver Art Museum

Museum of Fine Arts

Texas Harvard Art Museums

Albright-Knox Art Gallery

New York Public Library

Portland Art Museum

Nelson-Atkins Museum

Currier Art Museum

Fidelity Investments

Bayerische Vereinsbank

HONORS

2019 Harvard University Asia Center Grant, with Professor Rosetta Elkin, Imagining Retreat: Notes from the Landscape of Adaptation

2018 Harvard University Climate Change Solutions Grant, two-year funding with Professor Rosetta Elkin, Imagining Retreat: Notes from the Landscape of Adaptation

Radcliffe Institute Exploratory Seminar, Imagining Retreat with Professor Rosetta Elkin

Harvard University Asia Center Faculty Grant with Professor Rosetta Elkin, Imagining Retreat

2017 Artist in Residence Fellowship, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Kentucky

2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Photography (taken 2014-2015) 2012 Monastery of Halsnøy, Norway, artist residency fellowship

2010 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York, Elizabeth Ames Artist Residency Fellowship

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Film Studies Center Fellowship 2007 Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, Leighton Studios Artist Residency Fellowship

Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York, artist residency fellowship

2006 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Film Studies Center Fellowship

First Prize, Juror’s selection, International Photography Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Juror, Stephen Pinson, curator of photographs New York Public Library

2005 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York, artist residency fellowship Ucross Foundation, Ucross, Wyoming, artist residency fellowship

2004 Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York, Meredith S. Moody Residency Fellowship

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, Sam and Dusty Boynton Residency Fellowship

2002 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California, Artist-in-Residence 2000 The Aaron Siskind Foundation, Grant

The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, artist residency fellowship

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mount Saint Angelo, Virginia, artist residency fellowship 1999 ArtLink@Sotheby's International Young Art 2000, Semi-finalist

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mount Saint Angelo, Virginia, artist residency fellowship

PUBLICATIONS

From Above and Below, by Sharon Harper, Santa Fe: Radius Books, 2012

Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs by William M. Griswold and Rhoda Eitel-Porter, New York: The Morgan Library and Museum, 2011

Humble Art Foundation Collector’s Guide, Volume 2, New York: Humble Arts Foundation, 2010

Der Mond by Andreas Bluhm, Cologne: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Foundation Corboud. Ostfildern: Hantje Cantz, 2009 The Meaning of Photography, Edited by Robin Kelsey and Black Stimson, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008

Visions From America by Sylvia Wolf, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. Munich: Prestel, 2002 Walk Ways, essay by Stuart Horodner, New York: Independent Curators International, 2002

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Emory Lopiccolo, “Sharon Harper’s Moon Studies and Star Scratches,” Whitewall Magazine, September 17, 2014

Michelle Tay, “Hermes Exhibits Sharon Harper’s Ethereal Stills,” Blouin, September 16, 2014

Lyle Rexer, “Interview: Sharon Harper,” Photograph Magazine, August 2014

Dan Halm, “Sharon Harper: Portfolio,” Visual Arts Journal, October, 2013: 22-29

Mark Alice Durant, “55 Angels and the Modest Sublime,” Dear Dave Magazine, Spring, 2012: 100-115

Stephen Pinson, “Sharon Harper: Night and Day” (exhibition catalog, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne, Germany), 2011 Daylight Magazine, Issue No. 9, November 2011: 16-23

“Peindre avec la lumière: Un regard sur les Artistes Chris McCaw & Sharon Harper,” Art Croissance, Paris, France, November 2011: 26-29

Congyun Liu, “Interview with Sharon Harper,” Photoworld Beijing, Issue 347, 2010/11: 126 – 129

Minna Proctor, “Cover Artist,” The Literary Review, Spring 2010: cover

Minna Proctor, “Artists on Artists,” BOMB Magazine, March 2010: 68-69

Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, “On My Mind,” foam magazine, December 2009: 17

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, Galerie Stefan

Röpke, Cologne, Germany)

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,” (exhibition brochure, Whitney Museum of American Art,

New York, New York)

Kenneth Baker, “Fall Arts Preview,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2001

Suart Horodner, “Flug (Flight),” (brochure, Goethe-Institute, New York, New York)

Krissy Foley, "On Site: Contemporary Photography of Place," (exhibition catalog, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York)

Mira Jacobs, "Walkabout," (exhibition catalog, Greater New York, PS 1, Long Island City, New York)

PROFESSIONAL TALKS

2019 Invited Speaker, Some Observations on Movements of the Earth, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona, Florida

2018 Invited Speaker, Anderman Photo Lecture Series Lecturer, Some Observations on Movements of the Earth, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

Conference co-chair, Radcliffe Institute, Imagining Retreat, Cambridge, MA

Invited Speaker, Photo+Sphere, Asheville, North Carolina

Invited Panelist, The Realities of Population Relocation in the Face of Climate Change, University of Miami, School of Architecture, Miami, Florida

2017 Invited Panelist for David Maisel Black Maps, Urban Theory Lab, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Guest Critic, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, M.F.A. Photography Program Invited Speaker and Guest Critic, Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Invited Speaker and Guest Critic, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont

2016 Invited Guest Speaker, Penumbra Foundation, New York, New York

2015 Invited Speaker and Guest Critic, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Keynote Speaker, Society for Photographic Educators, South Central Regional Conference, Norman, Oklahoma

Invited Speaker, Harvard Art Museums, artist talk for HUB week celebrating the intersection of art, science and technology

2013 Invited Speaker and Guest Critic, University of Oregon, Eugene, Eugene, Oregon

Invited Speaker and Guest Critic, San Francisco Photo Alliance, San Francisco, CA

Invited Speaker and Guest Critic, Photography Department Lecture Series, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts

Host and Lead Presenter, Observational Photography Night, Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

2012 Invited Speaker, Belvédère Museum, Heerenveen, Netherlands, Noorderlicht Photography Festival

Invited Speaker, Bates College Art Museum, Lewiston, Maine

Guest Speaker, Hunter College, New York, New York

Guest Speaker and Visiting Critic, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Guest Speaker, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2011 Guest Speaker and Visiting Critic, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

2010 Invited Speaker, Society of Photographic Educators Northeast Conference, Providence, Rhode Island

Visiting Critic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Department of Urban Planning and Design

Panel organizer and speaker, Harvard University Photography and History Workshops, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Guest Lecturer and Visiting Critic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, M.F.A., Photography

Visiting Critic, Final Reviews B.F.A., Photography, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Spring 2010

Visiting Critic, Final Reviews B.F.A, Photography, and Extension School, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Fall 2010

2009 Visiting Critic, Final Reviews B.F.A., Photography, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Fall 2009

2008 Guest Lecturer and Visiting Critic, M.F.A., Photography, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

2007 Visiting Critic, Final Reviews, M.F.A. Photography, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts

2003 Guest Lecturer and Visiting Critic for M.F.A. Photography Program Parsons School of Design, New York, New York

2002 Visiting Critic, M.F.A., Photography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2001 Guest Lecturer and Visiting Critic, M.F.A., Studio Art, Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ

Guest Lecturer, B.A., Photography, New York University, New York, New York

Visiting Critic, M.F.A., Photography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1999 Guest Lecturer, B.A., Photography, Columbia University, New York, New York

JUROR

2009 Yaddo, Selection Committee to grant artist residency fellowships, Saratoga Springs, New York

Traveling Scholars Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

2013 - Present Professor, Department of Art, Film, Visual Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2017 - 2018 Interim Chair, Department of Art, Film, Visual Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2010 - 2013 Associate Professor, Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2005 - 2010 Assistant Professor, Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2003 - 2005 Visiting Assistant Professor, Photography, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina

2003 Visiting Assistant Professor, Photography, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

EDUCATION

1997 School of Visual Arts, New York, New York M.F.A. Photography and Related Media