Sharon Haggins Dunn

Sharon Haggins Dunn, Lowell, Massachusetts, is a mixed-media artist/educator who employs photography, drawing, painting, and digital imagery to create temporary site-specific installations, mixed-media environments and virtual immersive landscapes. She explores the concept of sacred space, referencing unknown ancestors, lost histories, forgotten narratives and rituals of passage. Dunn first traveled to Cuba in 1979 with anthropologist Johnnetta Cole to research the African base of Cuban culture. She has continued researching transcultural arts traditions in Cuba, as well as in Nicaragua, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, and Ghana. This research continues to inform current studio investigations and new research. In 2007 Dunn was awarded a residency at the Hasselblad Digital High Resolution Center of the University of the Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent, UK. Dunn is currently revisiting ideas explored in the Black Woman mural she completed in 1979, which has recently been featured in several exhibitions, including at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; the Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and the Tate Modern, London, UK. Sharon Haggins Dunn is Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.

Website:
sharonhagginsdunn.photoshelter.com

This bio/description was originally published in 2021 and updated in 2021. For more current information, please refer to the award recipient's website (if provided).