Shara Hughes (born 1981 in Atlanta, lives and works in Brooklyn) is an
American
painter. She received her
BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004, and went on to attend
the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. In 2017, the
artist was included in the Whitney Biennial. Her works are held in the
collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Denver Art
Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., among
others.