About

Bio
Sharon Lee Hart is a South Florida-based artist exploring ecology and ephemerality through experimental and cameraless photography. She also makes collages, mixed media works, and artist books about place. While maintaining an active studio practice, Hart is an Associate Professor of Art at Florida Atlantic University. With an environmental focus, she has worked as an artist-in-residence at Joshua Tree National Park (Joshua Tree, CA), The Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA), and The Studios of Key West (Key West, FL). Hart was awarded the 2025 Distinguished Woman Artist’s Prize from the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County and the 2023 SECAC Artist’s Fellowship Award. Her work is in several permanent collections including the King County Public Art Collection (Seattle, WA) and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), and has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and internationally.

Statement
My artistic practice uses sustainable and experimental methods that center nature as subject and catalyst. I explore native species, climate change, and conservation through photographic processes rooted in ephemerality. In Nocturnal Tracing, I make cameraless photograms directly in the sea to make visible a shoreline in flux, developing the images with sargassum tea and stabilizing them with saltwater. For Irreplaceable, I create anthotype portraits of at-risk Florida flora and fauna using sun bleaching and plant-based emulsions, allowing their gradual fading to mirror the fragility of the species depicted. These works move between archival and atmospheric, scientific and surreal, and invite reflection on ecological interdependence. I also make collage and artist books shaped by environments that have influenced my understanding of place. My ongoing photo-based mixed media collaboration, far becomes near, merges individual iconographies through shared experiences to create transitional spaces shaped by memory, domesticity, and the super/natural world.