Shara Hughes

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Shara Hughes
Born1981 (1981)
EducationRhode Island School of Design,
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Known forPainting
Websitesharahughesart.blogspot.com

Shara Hughes (born 1981) is an American painter. She lives and works in Brooklyn.[1][2]

Biography[edit]

Hughes was born in 1981 in Atlanta, Georgia.[3] She attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2004 and went on to study at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.[4][5]

Exhibitions and collections[edit]

In 2017 an entire room Hughes' work was in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.[5][6] Hughes had a solo exhibit at Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Luzern in the fall of 2022.[7][8]

Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,[9] the Metropolitan Museum of Art[10] and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia[11] as well as the Denver Art Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Shara Hughes". ArtNet. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  2. ^ "The Paris Review Print Series: Shara Hughes". The Paris Review. 2023-08-08. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  3. ^ "Visiting Artists: Shara Hughes". Vermont Studio Center. November 4, 2019. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  4. ^ "Shara Hughes Is Uncovering New Ground In Landscape Painting". Vogue. Condé Nast. 2023-09-01. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  5. ^ a b Elderton, Louisa (2019). "Shara Hughes". Great Women Artists. Phaidon Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-0714878775.
  6. ^ Baumgardner, Julie (19 March 2019). "See How Fast-Rising Painter Shara Hughes Creates Her Imaginative Landscapes". Galerie. 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.
  9. ^ "Shara Hughes". Whitney. Archived from the original on 5 July 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  10. ^ "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.
  11. ^ "Hughes, Shara - Hurricane Hughes". The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. 2014. Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2019.

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