Shara Hughes | |
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Born | 1981 Atlanta, Georgia, US |
Education | Rhode Island School of Design, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
Known for | Painting |
Website | sharahughesart |
Shara Hughes (born 1981) is an American painter. She lives and works in Brooklyn.[1][2]
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]
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]