About

Bio
Sharon Lee Hart is a South Florida-based artist whose practice engages place through experimental and more sustainable photographic methods and archival recombination. Working across photography, mixed media, and artist books, she examines layered living environments and has an ongoing collaboration rooted in visual dialogue. 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 practice engages place through experimental and more sustainable photographic methods, archival recombination, and collaborative exchange, creating projects that unfold gradually through material processes and are shaped by layered living environments. Centering nature as subject and catalyst, I work within coastal and cultivated ecologies, using cameraless and alternative approaches shaped by seasonal cycles and environmental change. Whether making photograms in the sea, creating anthotypes whose fading mirrors the vulnerability of species they depict, or observing gardens through grid-based compositions and plant-toned cyanotypes, the work develops through unhurried looking and responsiveness to light-sensitive materials. In the studio, archival fragments are cut and recombined, while my ongoing photo-based mixed media collaboration continues this through sustained visual dialogue about memory, domesticity, and the super/natural world.