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

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

Biography

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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

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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

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  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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