Shara Hughes

Shara Hughes (born 1981) is an American painter.

Shara Hughes
Born1981 (1981)
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Known forPainting
Websitesharahughesart.blogspot.com

Biography

Hughes was born in 1981 in Atlanta, Georgia. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and went on to study at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.[1] She lives and works in Brooklyn.[2]

Exhibitions and collections

In 2017 an entire room Hughes' work was in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.[1][3]

Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,[4] the Metropolitan Museum of Art[5] and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia[6] as well as the Denver Art Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[2]

Hughes had a solo exhibit at Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Luzern in the fall of 2022.[7][8]

References
  1. Elderton, Louisa (2019). "Shara Hughes". Great Women Artists. Phaidon Press. p. 195. ISBN 0714878774.
  2. "Shara Hughes". ArtNet. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  3. Baumgardner, Julie (19 March 2019). "See How Fast-Rising Painter Shara Hughes Creates Her Imaginative Landscapes". Galerie. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  4. "Shara Hughes". Whitney. Archived from the original on 5 July 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  5. "Shara Hughes - How Do You Sleep At Night?". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2017. Archived from the original on 21 April 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  6. "Hughes, Shara - Hurricane Hughes". The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. 2014. Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  7. Woodcock, Victoria (25 September 2022). "Step into these technicolour worlds". Financial Times. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  8. Meier, Philipp (18 October 2022). "Shara Hughes in Luzern: Ihre Bilder sollen alle verstehen". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 19 October 2022.


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