Bio

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Sharon Nichole (She/her) was born in the town of Bayamón, but was raised in Santurce, P.R. In 2023, she obtained her BFA majoring in sculpture, with a minor in Printmaking, from Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Diseño de Puerto Rico (Fine Arts School of Puerto Rico). She is an interdisciplinary artist, but has a strong foundation in ceramics, printmaking, drawing, and painting. 

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She is co-founder and co-director of Colectivo Moriviví, a women-led artistic collective that produces public art and artivism, with a focus on community muralism since 2013.  However it wasn’t until completing her BFA in 2023, that she was able to articulate her individual artistic practice. As an interdisciplinary artist,  she approaches art in a relational way, where materials contribute to the meaning behind the work. She focuses on themes such as ecofeminism, decoloniality, and the relationship between the individual, space and territory. 

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Artist Statement

 

My work is where I weave my relationship with the world. My artistic process explores the relationships between the materials I use and even the place where I propose the composition, to articulate a semantic-linguistic relation between them.  In exploring themes such as ecofeminism and decoloniality, I have repeatedly used materials such as clays, substrates and natural elements, as well as discarded plastic. I explore the ideas and themes for my projects through drawing, articulating visual narratives.  Later, this helps me approach them more profoundly in my three-dimensional work. My pieces then take the shape of sculptures, impressions, installations and ephemeral art.

 

It is very difficult to determine what links bodies and objects to the concepts with which we identify them. “Meaning” is what is born from the human capacity for metaphor and I believe art is the maximum expression of that process. When we face the work of art we are not empty vessels but a set of experiences. Our experiences interact with what we see, creating associations, provoking a line of thought that becomes part of a collective and subconscious memory. That connection is my concern as an artist, to weave the individual with the collective.