Welmon Sharlhorne (born 1952) is an American visual artist.
Sharlhorne is a native of Houma, Louisiana, and has also lived in the French Quarter in New Orleans.
[6] At the time of his youth, the area was under Jim Crow laws and was racially segregated.
[1] Sharlhorne has spend a significant portion of his life incarcerated and started making drawings while serving time at Louisiana State Penitentiary, where he was released in 1995.
[3] In 2019, Sharlhorne's work was included in the group show What Carried Us Over: Gifts from Gordon W. Bailey Collection among twenty five artists at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.