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b. 1987, Vernon (Syilx Okanagan territory) and Princeton (Sməlqmix/Similkameen territory), British Columbia, Canada. Lives and works in Victoria, British Columbia, on the ancestral lands of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.
Sharona Franklin is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working across biomaterial sculpture, photography, textile-based practice, civic access and autotheory. She approaches disability as a material and systemic framework rather than an identity. Her work engages multisensory material processes, ecology, disability, and cybernetic craft to examine the infrastructural conditions that shape care and access.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Crip Sweet Home, Bradley Ertaskiran Gallery, MTL, CA
2023 Art Basel, Kendra Jayne Patrick Gallery, Switzerland, CH
2022 Project 24: Sharona Franklin, MIT List Center, Cambridge, MA, US
2021 Axioms of Care,LambdaLambdaLambda/La Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels, BE
2020 New Psychedelia of Industrial Healing, Kings Leap Gallery, NYC, US
2019 New Psychedelia of Industrial Healing, G44 Center for Contemporary
Photography, Images Festival, Toronto, CA
2018 Placebo Mining, Patron Art House, Vancouver, CA
2016 This Bod is A Rental, Sweetpup Gallery, Vancouver, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025. 30th Anniversary Foundation with Works from the Collection, Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IL
Disability + Design, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Artwork and Bodymapping, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio,
US
Good Vibes Only?, Welt Der Versuchungen, Erfurt, DE
Fall and Spin, Bradley Ertaskiran Gallery, MTL, CA
Embodiment. Western Washington University, WA, USA
2023 Interdependencies, Migros Museum Zurich, CH
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
Museum of Fine Art Boston, US
A Contretemps, LambdaLambdaLambda, Contemporary Art Library Prishtina
The Butterfly Effect, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, IL
Condo Complex London, LambdaLambdaLambda, London UK
2022 Provisional Structures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver CA
Focus Exhibition, Hayward Gallery London - Toronto Art Fair, CA
Art Basel Miami, Kendra Jayne Patrick Gallery, Miami, US
Kingdom of the Ill, Museion Bolzano, Bolzano, IL
Blue of Noon, KTZ Gallery Group Exhibition, Berlin DE
Crip Ecologies: Vulnerable Bodies in a Toxic Landscape, Art Gallery of
Windsor, Ontario and Tangled Arts, Toronto, CA
2021 Rattling the Dags, April April Gallery, NYC, US
FIAC, Booth G15, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris FR
CRIP TIME, Museum of Modern Kunst, Frankfurt, DE
An Apology, Pill, A Resistance, A Ritual, A Restistance , Remai Modern
Museum, Saskatoon, CA
Good to Know, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, CA
2020 Happy Hardcore, Miriam Gallery, NYC, US
Disability Pride Plaques, Bus Shelters, Public Art Commission, the City
of Vancouver, Vancouver CA
Methodologies of Care, Gelatina Festival, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
The Pandemic is a Portal (Tellurian Dinner), Audain Gallery, Simon Fraser
University, Vancouver CA
Flows of Abundance and Decay, Audain Gallery, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver CA
Alternative Matter; Decontextualizing (in)form(action), Desuetude Gallery, Olympia, US
2019 Under The Wire, Upside Studios, Victoria, CA
Ken Kesey Residency Exhibition, Dizzy Mag, Eugene, US
UBC Blockchain Exhibition by 221A Gallery Vancouver, CA
Neodaddyism (Coven Berlin), Hamburg, DE
TALK BALK!, Flux Factory, Queens NY, US
Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation Silent Auction, Vancouver CA
Dog Ear Left of the Centerfold, Duplex Gallery, Vancouver CA
Neodaddyism, Coven, Prague, CZ
Online Auction, New Forms Festival, Vancouver CA
Playdate, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Some Body, Anybody, SOMA Gallery, Vancouver, CA
Mixed Gems, RedGate Gallery, Vancouver, CA
Super, Natural, Unit 17 Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2018 Tear it Down, Unit/Pitt, Vancouver, CA
Auction/Fundraiser, Duplex Project Space, Vancouver, CA
2017 Fluctuat, UNE, UNE, UNE, Perpignan, FR
Gallery Friends Series, Patron Art House, Vancouver, CA
FLARE performance [Feminist Land Art Retreat], Campbell River, CA
Agnimag, Satellite Cases, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, CA
2016 Messmates, [Substructured Loss Residency], Betke Atelier, Berlin, DE
RESIDENCIES
2019 Kesey Farm Residency, Eugene, OR, US
2016 Substructured Loss Residency, Betke Atelier, Berlin, DE
2012 UNIT/PITT Research Residency, Vancouver, CA