Sharon Harper has exhibited her work in over 200 juried and invitational exhibitions nationally and internationally and her work has been acquired by private collectors, the University of Maine in Presque Isle, the Springfield Art Museum in Missouri, the University of Texas in Tyler, Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, San Angelo Museum of Art, San Angelo, TX and the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. She has been awarded numerous artist residencies, among them: the Millay Foundation in Austerlitz, NY; Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA; The Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY; the Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL, Edgewood Farm, Truro, MA; Mother’s Milk, Newton, KS; and the Prairie Center of Arts in Peoria, IL. She has also garnered numerous jurors awards and has received University research and Foundation awards where she is a professor emerita in Art and Design at Missouri State University in Springfield Missouri.