Sharon Walters (b. 1975) is a London-based artist and project curator. Her multidisciplinary series Seeing Ourselves, explores identity, beauty standards, and race through intricate paper cut-outs, hand-assembled collages, podcasts, talks, and events. In her layered collages, Walters creates dimensional and complex depictions of Black women. Floated in glass, her paper-cuts cast shadows of themselves, alluding to a past within. Her practice confronts exclusionary and othering narratives perpetuated against Black communities, emphasising their right to 'take up space'.
With solo exhibitions at HackelBury, London (2024), and the Midlands Arts Center, Birmingham (2022), Walters received the Reach Art Prize in 2019 and the Mosaic Art Award at Hauser and Wirth in 2023 for Seeing Ourselves. Walters was awarded the Caird Fellowship Award by Royal Museums Greenwich, which will begin in February 2025 and culminate in an exhibition at the museum in 2026. Walters' works have been acquired by public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery and Soho House.
Artworks have been included in exhibitions such as Like Paradise at Claridge's ArtSpace, London (2023), curated by Ekow Eshun; Black Atlantic at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2023); Rites of Passage, Gagosian, London (2023); Mosaic Art Prize, Hauser & Wirth (2024); Black Minds Matter at Sophie Tea Art Gallery, London (2020); The Chapel Gallery, Hereford (2019); and Gunnersbury Park Museum, London (2019). Prominent commissions include the National Portrait Gallery, London and ITV.
Sharon Walters is represented by HackelBury, London.