B.S. in Fine Art, Cum. Laude
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

• National juried small group show, Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ.

• Sharon Harper, Randy Bacon Gallery, Springfield, MO.

• Painting, The Foundry Arts Centre, St. Charles, MO.  Juror:  Ron Thomas, retired from St. Louis Community College, MO.
• The Aktuell, National juried show, Anne Arundel Comm. College, Arnold, MD.  Juror:  Carol Lukitsch, curator, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA.
• PaperWork In, On, and of Paper IV, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO.  Juror:  Lewis Knauss, Professor at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA.
• Valdosta National ’08, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.  Juror:  Richard Helpp, Professor at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
• Refusing to Look Away:  Bearing Witness to Violence, invitational with Layla Ali, Sue Coe, Ida Applebrog, Bradley McCallum, Lucinda Devilin and 3 others.  Art and Design Gallery, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO.
• Circling the Globe Through Women’s Lives Exhibition,  Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY.  Juror:  Dr. Connie Koppelman, independent curator and teacher at SUNY Stonybrook, NY.
• Missouri 50, Fine Arts Bldg., State Fair, Sedalia, MO.  Tom Piche, Director, Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO.
• Art at the Center, juried, Overland Park, KS.  Juror:  Dr. Patricia McDonnell, Director, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS.

• 20”x20”x20” A National Compact Competition, LSU Union Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA.  Juror:  David   Rubin, Curator of Contemporary Art at San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
• Small Wonders, National small works exhibition, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD.  Juror:  Susan Bader Professor at Maryland Institute College of Art and freelance curator.
• The Aktuell, National juried show, Anne Arundel Comm. College, Arnold, MD.  Juror:  Carol Lukitsch, curator, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA.
• Facevalue, National contemporary portraiture and self-portraiture show, Broward Community Collegee, Davie, FL.  Juror:  Brian Bishop, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama.
• Yummy, national competition,  Nexus Foundation, Philadelphia.   Jurors: Nexus artists
• 12th Biennial Oklahoma: Centerfold, National Juried Show, University of Arts and Sciences, Gallery, Chickasha, OK and in 2006 at the Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, OK.  Juror:  Julie Harris, Professor of Art, Kean University, Union, NJ.
• Images of Peace, nat’l juried exhibition, The Albert Schweitzer Institute, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT.  Juror:  Prof. Stephen Henderson 
• Contemporary Women Artist Exhibition XIV, juried national,  Mad Art, St. Louis, MO.  Juror:  Judy Onofrio.
• River Market Regional, 6 state juried exhibition, Kansas City Artist Coalition, Kansas City, MO.  Juror: Elizabeth Dunbar, Curator at Arthouse, Jones Center, Austin, Texas.
• 15th Anniversary Exhibition,  invitational of former jurors, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL.  
• Fish Follies, Cordova Historical Museum, Cordova, AK. Nat’l juried exhibition.  Juror: Barbara Hoover.
• Invitational Exhibition,  Keyes Gallery, Springfield, MO.

• 27th Annual Paper in Particular National Exhibition, Columbia College, Columbia, MO.  Juror:  David Morrison, Professor, Heron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN.
  
• 21st Greater Midwest International Exhibition, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO.Jurors:  David Murano, Gallery Director and Brian Hinkle, Assistant Curator, The Wichita. Center for the   Arts, Wichita, KS.
  
• The Shafer Regional Invitational, Shafer Gallery, a 5-state competitive, Barton County Community College, Great Bend, KS.  Juror:  Stephen Gleissner, Chief  Curator, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS.
• Works on Paper, Mills Pond House Gallery, St, James, NY.  National juried exhibition.   Juror:  Colta Ives, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY.
• 8th Annual Juried Small Works 2006,  national show, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA.  Jurors:  Katherine French, Director of the Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA and Nancy Whipple Grinnell, Curator at the     Newport Art Museum. Newport, RI.
• Southworks Juried Art Exhibition, national show, Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA.  Juror: Carla Hanzal, Curator  of Contemporary Art, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC.
• Sharon Harper, Evangel College, Springfield, MO.
• Aha!  Epiphanies & Breakthroughs, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL.  Juror: Byron Roche, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL.
• Deconstruction and Reconstruction:  The Family Experience, juried national exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Curators: Marcia Rosal and      Viki Thompson Wylder.

• Chance Encounters, two-person invitational, Vespine Gallery, Chicago, IL.
  
• American Drawing Biennial 8, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA.   Juror:  Phyllis Rosenzweig, Curator of Works on Paper at the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C..
  
• Sharon Harper, Triangle Gallery, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH.
  
• 14th Annual National Juried Open Media Competition, Art Institute and Gallery, Salisbury, MD.  Juror:  Stephen Haller, owner of Stephen Haller Gallery, NY, NY.
• Figurative Exhibition, national juried three-person exhibition,University of Minnesota, Morris, MN.
• Sharon Harper, national juried exhibition, Triangle Gallery, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH.
• Valdosta National 2005 , Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.
• Border to Border: A National Drawing Competition, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN.
• Testifyin' 2005: A National Competition, Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC.
• 30th Bradley International , Bradley University, Heuser Art Center, Peoria, IL. Juror: Judy Colliscahn, Independent Art Consultant and member of the International Association of Art Critics.
• Drawing National Exhibition 2 , Montgomery College, Rockville, MD. Juror: Sarah Strecher, Assistant Professor of Art, Montgomery College.
• Shafer Regional Invitational Art Exhibition , Shafer Gallery, Barton County Community College, Great Bend, KS. Juror: Linda Gangstrom, Professor, Fort Hays State University, Fort Hays, KS.

• Water Tower Annual, 18-state competitive, LVAA, Louisville, KY. Juror: Matthew Distel, Ass't.Curator Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnatti, Ohio.
• Culture of Violence, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME.
• Sharon Harper, Keyes Gallery, Springfield, MO.
• 30th Bradley International, international juried exhibition, Bradley University, Heuser Art Center, Peoria, IL. Juror: Judy Collischan, Independent Art Consultant and member of the International Association of Art Critics.
• Valdosta National 2005, national juried exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA. Juror: Anne Dennington, Director of Atlanta Celebrates Photography.
• 9th Biennial Arts Competition, University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. Juror: Mel Watkin, independent curator, St. Louis, MO.
• Fish Follies, national juried exhibition,Cordova Historical Museum, Cordova, AK. Juror: Rie Munoz, internationally recognized artist and illustrator.
• Current Work 2004: A National Competition, national juried exhibition, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC. Juror: Janette Hopper, Associate Professor of Art, Univ. of NC, Pembrook, NC.
• Works on Paper, national juried exhibition, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD. Juror: Linda Simmons, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Emeritus, Cocoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
• Great Plains National, national juried exhibition, Moss-Thorns Gallery, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS. Juror: Susan Hapgood, Director of Exhibitions, Independent Curators International, NY.
• 14th National Art Competition, national juried exhibition, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO. Juror: Jeff Fleming, Senior Curator, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.
• Art at the Center, national juried exhibition, Overland Park. KS. Juror: Preston Jackson, Professor, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
• Missouri 50, state-wide competitive, Sedalia, MO. Juror: Harold Gregor, artist, Bloomington, IL.
• Re: Members, juried membership show, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO. Juror: Jan Schall, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nelson Atkins Museum, KC, MO.
• Identity Crisis:Searching for a Sense of Self, national juried exhibition, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY.

• Culture of Violence, juried invitational. Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Jurors: Donna Harkavy and Helaine Posner, independent curators, NY, NY. (see 2002 listing for details).
• Positive/Negative 18, national juried exhibition, Slocumb Galleries, East Carolina University, Johnson City, TN. Juror: Linda Johnson, adjunct Curator of Modern Art for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC.
• The 30th Annual Juried Exhibition, national juried exhibition, Masur Museum of Art, Monore, LA. Juror: Leslie Luebbers, Director, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.
• 9th Annual Gulf Coast National Juried Art Competition, Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur TX. Juror: Donna Meeks, Chair Dept. Art, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX.
• Janet T. Walsh Juried Art Show, Arts for Living Center, Burlington, Iowa. A six-state competitive. Juror: Jane Milosch, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.
• Identity, 8-state competitive, Guenzel Gallery, Fish Creek, WI. Jurors: Dion Dion, Exec. Dir. Art St. Louis and Kristine
  Diekman, chair Visual and Performing Arts Dept CSU, San Marcos, CA.
• Portraits: Real and Unreal, national juried exhibition, Stage Gallery, Massapequa, NY. Jurors: Marge Nezin of the Nezin
  Gallery of Freeport, and Greg Armin of the Smithtown Arts Council.
• A Burden Shared, national juried exhibition, Contemporary Art Center, Peoria, IL. Jurors: Joy Lessler and Preston Jackson, Professor, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL. International Art Competition, Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC. Juror: Robert Gerhart, Artist and Associate Professor of Art, Univ. of Greensboro, Greensboro, NC.

• Culture of Violence, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. Artists include Andy Warhol, Leon Golub, Sue Coe, Ida Applebroog, Mel Chin, Sue Williams, Danny Tisdale, Bruce Nauman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Richard Misrach, and Barbara Kruger. Jurors: Donna Harkavy and Helaine Posner, independent curators, NY, NY.
• Culture of Violence, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME.
• 2X2X2, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. Juror: Kathryn Hixson, Editor, New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL.
• Living With Too Little-Landlessness-Homelessness and Poverty, Gallery of Social/Political Art, Boston, MA
• Flora and Fauna, national competitive, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN.
• Greater Midwest Int'l Exhibition, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO. Juror: Raechell Smith, Dir. of H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO.
• 27th Annual Juried National Fine Arts Exhibition, Mills Pond House, St. James, NY. Jurors: Susan Cross, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum, NY, NY and Stan Brodsky, artist.
• Brand 32, national juried exhibition, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA. Juror: Nancy Moure, Assistant Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, freelance curator, and author.
• 'Violens' Festival Tábor, artists from 29 countries, on line exhibit, juried by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne and organized by CESTA (Cultural Exchange Station in Tabor, Czech Republic.
• Visions International Competition, Waco Art Center, Waco, TX. Juror: Peter Frank, Editor of Visions Art Quarterly, art critic for the L.A.Weekly, and contributor to Art Forum, Art in America, and Flash Art.
• Gulf Coast National Juried Art Competition. Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur, TX. Juror: Ray Daniels, Curator of exhibits at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas.
• Eighth Biennial Arts Competition , University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. Juror: Michael J. Beam, Dir. of Visual Arts, Mitchell Museum, Mt Vernon, IL.
• The 2002 Rockford Midwestern Exhibition, nine state biennial, Rockford Museum, Rockford, IL. Juror: Jeff Fleming, Senior Curator, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
• Disclosing, national juried exhibition , Exit Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
• Missouri 50, state wide competitive, Sedalia, MO. Juror: Stewart Turnquist, Curator, Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN.

• 73rd Annual National Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, Juror: Susan Cross, Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum, NY, NY.
• Yeiser 2001, juried national exhibition of contemporary art, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY. Juror: dan Carver, Executive Director of the Yeiser Art Center.
• Pulcheria 2001, International juried art exhibition, Piacenza, Italy.
• Drawing National, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD. Juror: Sarah Stecher, Assistant Professor of Art, Montgomery College.
• Drawing II International, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE. Barbara Simcoe, Professor of Art, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE.
• Reseeding/Receding, solo exhibition, Art and Design Gallery, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO.
• Places to Rest, Fine Arts Gallery, Broward Community College, Davie, FL. Juror: Rod Faulds, Director, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University,
• Greater Midwest International Exhibition, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO. Juror: Mark Spencer, Associate Director of the Arts Council of Kansas City, MO.
• Feminism: A Global Power, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL. Jurors: Ingrid Fassbender, Fassbender Gallery; Ellen Lanyon, Artist; Marji Vecchio, Artist.
• Paper in Particular National Exhibition, Columbia College, Columbia, MO. Juror: Harvey Braverman, Artist.
• Twelfth Annual Missouri 50 Exhibition, Sedalia, MO. Juror: Steven T. Zevitas, Editor and PLublisher of New American Paintings, Wellsley, MA
• 2001 Road Show, Kansas City Artists Coalition at St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis MO. Juror: Jessica Row, Deputy Director, Des Moines Art Center, DesMoines, IA.
• Prejudice, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL. Juror: Ursula Kammer-Fox.
• Walking the Tightrope, Dahl Arts Center, Sioux City, SD. Juror: Margaret Hawkins, art critic, Chicago Sun-Times.
• Anything But Innocent, 5-person, National Juried Exhibition.Jewish Community Center, Woodbridge, CT.
• Holding My Heart, Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts, Palmer Lake, CO.
• Anthropophagy.com, Digital Image accepted to on-line exhibition.

• Reseeding, solo exhibition, Charno Gallery, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO.
• Sharon Harper, solo exhibition, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS.
• Exploration of the Consequences, solo exhibition, Lucy Lee Gallery, Tinnin Fine Arts Cemnter, Three Rivers Community College, Poplar Bluff, MO.
• Great Plains National, Moss-Thorns Gallery of Art, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS. Juror:Dan Keegan, Director, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO.
• Suburbanscape, John A. Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery, Ann Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD. Juror: Gary Sangster, Executive Director, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD.
• 2000 Kreft National Juried Art Exhhibition, Kreft Center for the Arts, Concordia College, Ann Arbor, MI. Juror: MaryAnn Wilkinson, curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Detroit Institute for the Arts, Detroit, MI.
• Plain Art 2000, national juried exhibition, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS. Juror: Tori Arpad, Assistant Professor of Art, Miami, FL.
• Chasing the Ideal: Women and Eating Disorders, national juried exhibition, Moreau Galleries, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN.
• Cleavage, Community College, CO.
• Why Modernism was not a Public Affair, invitational exhibition, Art and Design Gallery Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO.
• The Body Ecletic, invitational exhibition, Walnut Street Gallery, Springfield, MO.
• Faculty Exhibition, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO. Annual exhibit 1993-2000.

• International Juried Show, New Jersey Center for the Arts, Summit, NJ. Juror: Lisa Dennison, Deputy Director and Chief Curator Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.
• 22nd Annual Art on Paper, National Exhibition, Maryland Federation of Art, MD, Anapolis, MD. Juror: Samuel Hoi, Dean of the Cocoron School of Art, Washington, D.C..
• Twenty-Fourth Annual Juried Fine Arts Competition, Mills Pond House, St. James, N Y. Jurors: Alicia Longwell, Curator, Parish Art Museum, Southampton, NY and Ariella Budick, Art Critic, Newsaday, NY.
• Fourteenth Annual Greater Midwest Int'l Exhibition, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO. Juror: Jan Schall, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO.
• Erase Hate/Create a New World, national juried competition, The Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck NJ. Jurors: Puffin Foundation Board of Directors.
• Dia de los Muertos Exhibit, national juried exhibition, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR.
• Regional IV, eight state competitive, ARC Gallery, Chicago IL. Juror: Mark Hall, co-edited, "The Artist Outsider: Creativity and the Boundaries of Culture, and co-curator of "The Art of Charles Burchfield-North by Midwest", Columbus Museum of Art, 1997, Columbus, OH.
• Cleavage, national juried exhibition, Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
• Beyond Venus: Women Imagine Beauty, invitational exhibition, Whistler Art Museum, Worcester, MA.
• Missouri Top 50, Sedalia, MO, Juror: Mark White, Curator of Exhibitions, Edwin Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS.
• Sharon Harper, Recent Paintings, Lorimier Gallery, Cape Giradeau. MO.
• First National FATE Exhibition, Harmony Park Gallery, Fort Collins, CO. Juror: Garrison Roots, Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO.
• Summer Juried Exhibition, Springfield Visual Arts Alliance, Kelly Gallery, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO.

• Twenty-Third Annual Fine Arts Competition, Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James New York. Juror: Tracey Bashkoff, Curator, Guggenheim Museum, NY, NY and Alyn Cosgrove, Director Nardin Gallery, NY, NY.
• New Art 98, National Juried Exhibition, Kingston Gallery, Boston MA. Juror: Helaine Posner, Curator, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA.
• Missouri Top 50, Sedalia , MO, Juror: Beth Venn, curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
• Women in the Visual Arts-1998: 12th Annual International Competition, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT. Juror: Andrea Miller-Keller, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Ct.
• First International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Juror: Leisa Rundquist Southbend Regional Museum, South Bend, IN.
• Miscellaneous Epiphanies, national juried solo exhibition, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI. Juror: Irene Hofman, Curator, Cranbrook Academy of Art and Robert Martin, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
• Whispers 98, national juried exhibition, Gallery on the Rim, San Francisco, CA. Juror: Eileen McClean Baker.
• ARC Regional Exhibition, eight state competition, Chicago, Illinois. Juror: Leisa Rundquist Southbend Regional Museum, South Bend, IN.
• Thirteenth Annual Greater Midwest International Exhibition, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg,MO. Juror: Andrea Inselmann, Curator of Exhibitions, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI.
• Issues of Guilt , Raritan Valley Community College, Somerset, N J. Juror: Donna Stackhouse, artist and faculty member at Raritan Community College.
• Works on Paper Exhibition VII, Shepard College, Shepardstown, WV.
• MOAK 4 State Regional Exhibition, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO. Juror: Michael Preble, Associate (cont.) Director/Education & Director of the Museum School at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR.
• Spiva Biennial, 9-State Competitive, Spiva Arts Center, Joplin, MO. Juror: Benito Huerta, Curator, University of Texas, Arlington TX..
• The Divine Comedy: Images of Heaven, Hell and Limbo, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD. Juror: Walter Gomez, Walter Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
• Re: Members Exhibition, member competitive, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO. Juror: Dana Self, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO.
• Domestic Boundaries, invitational exhibition, Art Bank, Shelburne Falls, MA.
• Group Exhibition, invitational, Keyes Gallery, Springfield, MO.

• '97 National Juried Exhibition, North Bennington Independent Artists' Space, Bennington, VT. Juror: Beth Handler, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY.
• Americas 2000: Paper Works National Competition, Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, Minot, ND. Juror: Fred Boyle, director for Foster Goldstrom Gallery, N Y, N Y.
• Contemporary Visions '97-national juried exhibition, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT. Juror: Dr. Judy Collischan, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY.
• 1997 Eighth Annual Missouri Top 50 Competition, Sedalia Arts Council,Sedalia, MO. Juror: Marti Mayo, Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX.
• Twenty-Second Annual National Juried Fine Arts Competition, Mills Pond House, Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, NY. Juror: Beth Handler, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY.
• Sharon Harper, national juried solo exhibition, Grants Pass Museum, Grants Pass, OR.
• Family Portraits, eleven-person national juried show, Chapel Art Center, St. Anselm College, Manchester, NH. Juror: Katherine Hoffman, Chairperson and Professor, Fine Arts Dept, Saint Anselm College.
• Myth America, National Juried Exhibition, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI. Juror: Carol Jacobsen, artist, activist, and teacher at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
• Dia de los Muertos Exhibit, national juried exhibition, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR. Juror: Sandra Dominguez, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR.
• Women's Works 9th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, IL. Jurors: Renie Breskin Adams, artist, Professor Emeritus of art from Northern Illinois University. Beate Minkovski, Co-founder and Executive Director of Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL.
• Sharon Harper, solo exhibition, New Works Gallery, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO.
• Sharon Harper: New Paintings, solo exhibition Cox Gallery, Drury College, Springfield, MO.
• Creative Spirits, regional competition, Hendren Gallery, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.
• Juror: Joan Hall, Professor and Head of Printmaking, at Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

• ANA 25, National Juried Exhibition, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT. Juror: Janet Koplos, senior editor of Art in America , New York, NY.
• Fifteenth Annual Women's National Juried Art Exhibition, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR.
• Breaking the Role, National Juried Exhibition, Trammel Crow Pavilion, Dallas, TX. Jurors: Jean Graham, assistant curator for the Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX, and Ann Starnes, Art Instructor at the University of North Texas, Denton, TX.
• Expressions of Healing: the Role of the Arts in the Healing and Grieving Process, national juried exhibition, Illinois State Museum and Univ. of Illinois., Springfield, IL.
• Paper in Particular, National Juried Exhibition, Columbia College, Columbia, MO. Juror: Rudy Autio, artist.
• No Big Heads: Eleventh Annual Self Portrait Exhibition, national juried exhibition, University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK. Juror: Clare Ramano, Associate Prof. of Art, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
• ARC Regional, eight state competition, Chicago, IL. Juror: Gregory Knight, Dir. of Visual Arts for the Chicago Dept. of Cultural Affairs and Chief Curator of the Exhibitions Program at the Chicago Cultural Center.
• Gender Agenda, National Juried Exhibition, Muskingum College, New Concord, Ohio. Juror: Brooke Hannan, artist and Professor at Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH.
• The Burning Bra and Other Bedside Tales: A 90's view of the Feminist Movement, National Juried Exhibition, Mills Pond House, St. James, New York. Juror: Norma Cohen, Executive Director for Smithtown Arts Council, St. James, NY.
• Women's Works 9th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Old Courthouse Art Center, Woodstock, Illinois. Jurors: Edith Altman , artist and Mary Lou Zelazny visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago represented by Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL.

• Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, National Juried Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL. Juror: Bonnie Lopez, artist and activist.
• River Market Regional, Kansas City Artists Coalition, 13th Annual Juried Competition, Kansas City, Missouri. Juror: Marti Mayo, Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX.
• The Transitional Body, 4-person invitational, Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
• Domestic Landscape, Sharon Harper/Penny Harris, national juried exhibition, Rosewood Arts Center, Kettering ,OH.
• 67th Annual Juried Exhibition, Harrisburg Art Association, Harrisburg, PA. Juror: Phyllis Rosenzweig, Associate Curator, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC.
• 53rd Annual Juried Competition, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA. Juror: Sheila Stewart-Leach, Executive Director, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL.
• Seventh Annual National Art Competition, Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, MO. Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
• Shadows and Light, national juried two- person show, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH.
• Domestic Landscapes, National Juried Exhibition,Sullivan County Museum, Hurleyville, NY. Jurors: Eustacia Marsales and Caroline Keith , Pulse Gallery, New York, NY.

• Border to Border: A National Drawing Competition, Center for the Creative Arts, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville,TN. Juror: Ofelia Garcia, Doctorate of Fine Arts (honoraris causa) Atlanta College of Art, MFA from Tufts University/Boston Museum.
• Nurturing Myths, solo exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art, Jackson, MI.
• Naming the Violence, solo exhibition, Art and Design Gallery, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO.
• Six Annual National Art Competition, Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville, MO. Juror: Susan Crane, Curator of 20th century Art at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
• Paper Stars National Juried Exhibition, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Jurors: Judy Dater, Violet Fields, and Kate Delos, nationally known artists.
• Sharon Harper, national juried solo exhibition , University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
• Love Hurts, solo exhibition, Danforth Art Gallery, Portland, ME.
• 1994 Missouri Top 50 at the Missouri State Fair Juried Exhibition, Sedalia, MO. Juror: Richard Alsdorf, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, ILs.
• Dark Humor, National Juried Exhibition, Plan B Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee. Jurors: Katherine Herndon, dir. of Delta Axis Art Center, and Greely Myatt, Prof. of Art at Memphis State University, Memphis, TN.
• Sharon Harper-Susan Manspeizer, Berkshire Artisans Gallery, Pittsfield, MA.
• The First 10 years: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Big Red Gallery, Clearmont, WY.
• Walking the Tightrope, Broadway Arts Building, Asheville, NC.

• Regional Juried Exhibition, Valley Women Artists/Women's Caucus for Art, Zone Art Center, Springfield, MA. Jurors: Suzannah Fabing, Dir., Smith College Museum of Art, Pat Lasch, Ass't. Prof. Univ. of Mass., and Martha Sanveiss, Dir., Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
• Group Show, (four-person), national juried exhibit, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI.
• Aspects of Paper, (Invitational), Zone Arts Center, Springfield, MA.

• Goodbye to Apple Pie: Contemporary Artists View the Family in Crisis, Juried Invitational, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. Juror: Nick Capasso, Ass't. Curator .
• Body Politic- A vision of personal survival under the current state of affairs, National Juried Exhibition, Survival Graphics, Madison, Wisconsin. Jurors: Angela Kelly, Assistant Professor at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Jan Zita Grover, Editor of Artpaper, St. Paul, MN; and Patrick JB Flynn, Art Director of T he Progressive, Madison, WI.
• Women's Art Works-on/of Paper, national juried exhibition, Shoestring Gallery,Rochester, New York. Juror: Dr. Carol Pulin, Curator of fine prints at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C..
• House on Fire, Howard Yerzerski Gallery, Juried Invitational, Boston, Massachusetts. Juror: Tom Grabosky from the Howard Yerzerski Gallery.
• Group Show, (Four person), National Juried call for slides, Acme Art Company, Columbus, OH.
• Figurative Arts: Real Issues in Extreme Circumstances, (three-person), National Juried call for slides, University of Minnesota, Morris, MN.
• My Family, Myself, two person exhibition, A Different Angle Gallery, Boston, MA.

• Contemporary Art on Canvas, National Juried Exhibition, Mitchell Gallery of Art, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland. Juror: Frederick R. Brandt, Curator, 20th Century Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.
• National Open Juried Exhibit, Cornerstone Gallery, Falls Village, Connecticut. Juror: Deborah Menaker Rothschild, Curator of Exhibitions, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA.
• BAA 1991 Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Juried exhibition of New England and New York Artists, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Juror: Jock Reynolds, Director, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA.
• Art Against Dickheads, juried exhibition, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL. Jurors: SisterSerpents.
• Group Show, (four person), national call for slides, Berkshire Artisans Gallery, Pittsfield, MA. Juror: Renato Danese, Director of Pace Gallery, NY, NY.

• Rattle Your Rage, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, Illinois and ABC No Rio, New York, New York. Jurors: SisterSerpents.
• The 8th Annual International Flatworks Juried Invitational, Marguerite Pullen Gallery, University of Maine, Presque Isle, ME. Juror: Hal Howe Professor of Art at the University of Georgia.
• It Gets You Where You Live, two person exhibition, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI.
• Annual National Juried Exhibit, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL.
• The Other Family Album, solo exhibition, Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA.
• Hereditary Dis/Ease, solo exhibition, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.

• Honorable Mention, Smithtown Arts, St. James, New York.

• Painting Residency, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia.
• Jurors Award, Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma.

• Jurors Award, Valdosta National, Valdosta, Gerogia.

• Painting Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois.
• Jurors Award, Great Plains National, Fort Hays, Kansas.
• Jurors Award, Art at the Center, Overland Park, Kansas.
• Honorable Mention, Fish Follies, Cordova, Alaska

• Painting Residency, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming.
• Ucross Foundation's Lois Nellie Gill Award for female visual artists of exceptional merit.
• Painting Residency, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia.
• First Place Award, Gulf Coast National Juried Art Competition, Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur, Texas

• Jurors Award, 2x2x2, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• Jurors Award, Gulf Coast National Juried Art Competition, Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur, Texas
• Jurors Award, Missouri 50, Sedalia, Missouri
• University Award in Research, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri

• Honorable Mention, Missouri 50, Sedalia, Missouri. Juror: Steven Zevitas, editor and publisher of New American Paintings, Wellsley, Massachusetts.

• Juror's Award, Missouri 50, Sedalia, MO. Juror: James Rondeau, Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago.
• Honorable Mention, Great Plains National,Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS. Juror: Dan Keegan, Director, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
• College Research Award, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri.
• Juror's Award, Summer Exhibition, Springfield Visual Arts Alliance, Juanita K Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts, Springfield, MO.

• Artist's Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York.
  Fellowship from the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation.
• Artist's Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia.
• Calendar 2000, juried competition, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL.
• Sabbatical Award, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO.
• Summer Travel Grant, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri.
• Jurors Award, Springfield Visual Arts Alliance, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO.

• Jurors Award, New Art 98, Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Honorable Mention, Whispers 98, Gallery on the Rim, San Francisco, CA.

• Jurors Award, Americas 2000, Minot State University, Minot, North Dakota.

• Jurors Award, Springfield Visual Arts Alliance, Winter juried exhibition, Springfield, Missouri.
• Artistic Merit Award, Women's Works Exhibition, Woodstock, Illinois.
• Bonaker Memorial Award, For the Arts Fourth Annual Juried Exhibition, Springfield, Missouri.
• Faculty Research Grant, Southwest Missouri State University , Springfield, Missouri.

• Painting Residency, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming. (unable to attend)

• Painting Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York.

• Fellowship Award, Art Matters, New York, New York.
• Painting Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois.
• Painting Residency, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming.

• Jurors Award, Cornerstone Gallery, Falls Village, Connecticut.

• Semifinalist for Massachusetts State Grant for Poetry Writing.
• Jurors Award, Owen Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Asheville, North Carolina.
• Jurors Award, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, Rhode Island.
• Purchase award, University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, Maine.

• Paintings appeared on news show in Springfield, IL in conjunction with the Expressions of Healing exhibition, 1996.

• Appeared on KY3, NBC cable channel 8 interviewed by news anchor, Lisa Richardson for her 5:00 broadcast which featured my work and a discussion about domestic abuse in Springfield, MO, 1995.
• Appeared on KSPR, ABC cable channel 12, interviewed by a news reporter who covered "Breaking Free: Women Overcoming Violent Relationships" event and highlighted my work in the Art and Design Gallery, 1995. On the air interview with KTTS AM/FM Radio Station about my exhibition and "Breaking Free: Women Overcoming Violent Relationships", 1995.
• Appeared on SMSU 30 on the University Television Station to discuss my exhibit, "Naming the Violence" 1995.

• Appeared on local news channel in Portland, ME in conjunction with my exhibition and panel discussion, 1993.

• "Organic Plastic, Wooden Honey", Valerie Valentine, Object Magazine , Minneapolis, MN, Feb. 6, 2002.
• "Into harm's ways", Larry Parnass, Daily Hampshire Gazette , Northampton, MA, Feb. 5, 2002.

• "Death and awaking", Candice Russell, City Link , Broward-Palm Beach, Florida, June 13, 2001.
• "Tough Girls", Linde Brady, UR Chicago , Chicago, Illinois, May , 2001.
• "Harper's art ephemeral, yet darkness evident", Camile Howell. News Leader , Springfield, Missouri, May 9, 2001.

• "Art : Whilwind", Carl Waltz, Pitch Weekly , Kansas City, Missouri, May 25, 2000.
• "Cleavage: an exhibition on the breast", Art Papers , Atlanta Georgia.

• "'Cleavage' a powerful look at women's bodies, roles", Wesley Pulkka, The Sunday Journal , Alburquerque, NM, Sept 19, 1999.
• "Beauty in the eye of the woman beholder: Whistler House exhibit challenges traditional notions", Otto Peter Erbar, Attleboro Sun , March, 1999 "Works by Sharon Harper", announcement and picture in, Tipoff , p. 40, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, March 1999. color photo printed, Southeast Missourian , Cape Girardeau, Missouri, March 11, 1999.
• "SMS faculty exhibit on the gruesome side". Camille Howell, News Leader , Springfield, Missouri, Jan. 5, 1999.

• "North Bennington Independent Artists' Space: 97 National Juried Competition", Jane Masters, Art New England , p. 46, April/May, 1998. *
• "happenings,Visual Art", Elizabeth Oedel, The Valley Advocate , Hadley, Massachusetts, pg.42, March 26,1998.
• Subtle 'Women in the Visual Arts' reflects human experiences", Judy Birke, New Haven Register , New Haven, Connecticut, March 15, 1998.*

• "Gallery trio offers food and thought for First Friday", by Kathleen Alaks and Edith Decker, Daily Courier , Grants Pass, Oregon, November 6, 1997.
• "Show shares angst, alienation and loss", by Alice Thorson, Kansas City Star , Kansas City, Missouri, July 18, 1997.
• "Paintings of death poignant, powerful", Camille Howell, News Leader , Springfield, Missouri, March 14, 1997.

• Concepts of Identity: Historical and Contemporary Images and Portraits of Self and Family, by Katherine Hoffman, Harper Collins Publishing, p. 218, 1996.
• "Kettering Ohio: Penny Harris/Sharon Harper/Rosewood Arts Centre Gallery" by Molly Youngkin, Dialogue , Nov/Dec 1996. "Human interaction inspires women's art", Kathy Whyde Jesse, Dayton Daily News , October 6, 1996.
• "Rosewood exhibit ...", The Times Kettering/Edition , Kettering Ohio, October 2, 1996.

• "River Market Regional", Michael Coons, Forum , Kansas City, Missouri, Summer, 1995.
• " Exhibit explores victimization", St. Charles Journal , St. Charles, Missouri, April 16,1995. "Disturbing Art, Painful Talk Mark Victims' Rights Week", Leigh Anne Porcher, St. Louis Post- Dispatch , St. Louis, Missouri, April,1995.
• "Art cuts through pain from abuse", Tamlya Beasley, News Leader , Springfield, Missouri, March 31, 1995.

• "Dark Passage" by Karen Kitchen, Casco Bay Weekly , Portland, ME, Nov. 22, 1994.
• "Two exhibitions document societal concerns", York County Coast Star , Portland, ME, Nov., 23, 1994.
• "Two artists at Artisans" by Daniel Grant, The Berkshire Eagle , Pittsfield, MA, May 6, 1994, p. C6.

• "SHARON HARPER", by Suzanne Tourtillot, Art Papers , Atlanta GA, Nov./Dec. issue,1993.
• "On paper, 'Aspects', is an exciting, colorful exhibit", Gloria Russell, Republican , Springfield, MA, Feb. 7, 1993.
• "Into the Paper Zone", by Lee Sheridan, The Springfield Advocate , Springfield, MA, Feb. 18, 1993.
• "Pursuing 'Southern Art'", by Frank Thomson, Asheville Citizen-Times , Asheville, North Carolina, July 25, 1993.
• "Dancing At The Revolution", by Phyllis Rosser, New Directions for Women , March-April, 1993, p. 27.
• "Good-Bye to Apple Pie: Contemporary Artists View the Family in Crisis", Daniel P. Younger, Views-The Journal of Photography in New England , Winter 1993, p. 23.

• "Exhibit by Valley's female artists speaks about violence", by Gabrielle Sellei, Transcript-Telegram , Holyoke, MA, Feb. 13, 1992, p. 15.
• "Houses that aren't homes", by Dawn Hill, Bay Windows , Boston MA, July 23, 1992, p. 16.
• "A bleak slice-'Good-bye to Apple Pie' can't find any family values", by Cate McQuaid, The Boston Phoenix , Boston, MA, Oct. 16-22, 1992.
• Color photo in Art Now Gallery Guide , Boston/New England and the International Guide, Sept. 1992.
• "Women's works shine on their own terms", Leslie Constable, Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, OH,Sept. 20, 1992.

• "Love Hurts", by John Pantalone, Newport This Week , Newport, Rhode Island, Jan. 3, 1991, p.15.
• "Sculpture and paintings by New England artists exhibited at the Berkshire Art Association show", by Karen Shreefter, Berkshires Week, The Berkshire Eagle Magazine , Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Oct.4, 1991.

• "Telling the Untellable", by Tori Arpad, The Valley Advocate, Hatfield, Massachusetts, July 16, 1990.
• "Family pictures, strictly unposed, by Anne-Gerard Flynn, Sunday Republican, Springfield Mass., July 15,1990.
• "Art that liberates through pain-Sharon Harper's disturbing paintings deplore family abuse", Daily Hampshire Gazette , Northampton, Massachusetts, July 18, 1990.