Shara Hughes

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

Shara Hughes (born 1981) is an American painter.

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.[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]

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References
  1. Phaidon Editors (2019). 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". www.whitney.org.
  5. "How Do You Sleep At Night? 2017". The Met. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  6. "Hughes, Shara - Hurricane Hughes". The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Retrieved 22 December 2019.


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