Sharon Harper (born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1966) is a contemporary visual artist, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
[2] Harper's photographs examine human perception of time through the movements of the sun, moon, and stars, as mediated by a large format camera.
[3] Harper is known for her series "Moon Studies and Star Scratches," in which she uses multiple exposures on large format film to overlap weeks or months of nightly images of the moon and stars to create records of perceptual experience over time.
[5] From Above and Below,[10] a monograph spanning ten years of her work documenting the night sky, was published by Radius Books in 2013.
She has received numerous other artist-in-residence fellowships including at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, the MacDowell Colony, and at the Ucross Foundation among others.