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Sharon Walters is a London-based artist and curator whose multidisciplinary practice is an exploration of Blackness through collage, photography, paper cut-outs, film, and public programming. Her ongoing series Seeing Ourselves spans paper cut-outs, collages, podcasts, film works, talks, and events, creating layered representations of Black women. Often floated in glass, her cut-outs cast shadows that evoke memory and absence, extending the work into a dialogue with histories of representation and erasure.

With solo shows at Hope93, London (2025), 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. In 2024 Walters was Fellowship the Caird Fellowship Award by Royal Museums Greenwich, her research culminates in a display at the museum, and a series of events, in 2026. Walters' works have been acquired by public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery and Soho House. 

Artworks have been included in significant group exhibitions, such as The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (2025); Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2025); Eternal Threads at the Bishop Gallery, New York (2025), Conversations at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2024); Like Paradise at Claridge's ArtSpace, London (2023); Black Atlantic at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2023); Rites of Passage, Gagosian, London (2023) and the Mosaic Art Prize, Hauser & Wirth, London (2024); Prominent commissions include the National Portrait Gallery, London and ITV.

Sharon is currently being represented by HackelBury Fine Art.