Sharon Harper works with photography and video, exploring how technology mediates our relationship with the natural world and generates perceptual experiences. She received an MFA in photography and related media from the School of Visual Art in New York. Her work is found in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York City, the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, among other significant collections. Harper is represented by Galerie Stefan Roepke, Cologne, Germany, and Rick Wester Fine Art, New York. She is currently a professor of visual arts and environmental studies at Harvard University. Her monograph From Above and Below was published by Radius Books in 2013.