Sharon Louise Barnes is a visual artist born in Sacramento, CA and raised in Los Angeles. She earned her MFA in Fine Arts from Otis College of Art & Design and has been awarded the MacDowell Fellowship and Residency; the City of Los Angeles Individual Master Artist Fellowship; the Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency; and the Spelman College Art Colony Residency at Taller Portobelo, Panama. Her work is included in the collections of the Crocker Art Museum, the California African American Museum, and the UCLA Ralph Bunche Center for African American Studies, among others. Barnes works through the medium of Social Abstraction across painting and sculpture.