MJ Sharp Exhibits | Lectures
Selected Listings
EXHIBIT: Coming into Focus: A Snapshot of Photography at the Nasher
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
July 17 2025 — January 4 2026
EXHIBIT: Nightscapes with annotated web gallery of work from 2007-2024
Craven Allen Gallery / Durham NC
February 8th – March 1st 2025
EXHIBIT: Disappearing Darkness: A Meditation on Losing the Night
College of Wooster Art Museum / Wooster Ohio
September 3rd – December 6th 2024 / Artist Talk, September 17th
EXHIBIT: Light Cache with annotated web gallery of work from 2004-2010
Exhibit at Craven Allen Gallery / Durham NC
December 3rd 2011 – February 11th 2012
EXHIBIT: Reflections on Light: Works from the NCMA Collection
North Carolina Museum of Art / Raleigh NC
September 9th 2020 – July 11th 2021
REVIEW: Chris Vitiello’s review of Light Cache
REVIEW: Daylight Books review of Light Cache
Chronological Listings
EXHIBIT: 27 The Arc of a Collection
Cassilhaus Collection | Chapel Hill NC
December 2025 — Spring 2026
SEMINAR: Exhibition as Textbook: A History of Photography
A 4-part online seminar with Art Historian Elizabeth Howie and Photographer MJ Sharp
Thursdays: October 30 — November 20th 2025
6:30 — 8:30 PM
EXHIBIT: MJ Sharp: A Decade of Darkness
UNCG Gatewood Gallery / Greensboro NC
September 2 — October 12 2025
Artist remarks in the gallery | Thursday, September 4th, 5pm
LECTURE: Megalithic Imagery as Contemplative Portals
Archaeoastronomy and Celestial Geometry Conference: Understanding Ancient Astronomies
July 2025 Jornada Research Institute, New Mexico
LECTURE: Cornish Nocturnal Landscapes
Appalachian Studies Association Conference / Cookeville TN
March 20th – 23rd 2025
EXHIBIT: Neolithic Night Projections
GLOW Outdoor Light & Technology Art Festival / Cary NC
March 7th – 10th 2025
EXHIBIT: Nightscapes
Craven Allen Gallery / Durham NC
February 8th – March 1st 2025
LECTURE: In the Dark: Reflections on Two Decades of Night Shooting
Nightscapes Online Artist Talk with guests Dr. Elizabeth Howie, Dr. Marianne Wardle, and Dr. Elizabeth Johnson
February 6th 2025
LECTURE: Megaliths, the Milky Way, and other Means of Remembrance in Prehistoric Britain
SECAC Art History session, “The Concept of the Antique in Antiquity”
October, 2024 / Atlanta, Georgia
CONVERSATION: Suffering: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation
Click! Photography Festival 2024
Sunday, September 29th @ The Fruit / Durham NC
CONVERSATION: Saving Earth’s Starry Cathedral
JoAnna Klein interview for the Long View Project
North Carolina State University | Climate and Sustainability Academy
EXHIBIT: Disappearing Darkness: A Meditation on Losing the Night
College of Wooster Art Museum / Wooster Ohio
September 3rd – December 6th 2024 / Artist Talk, September 17th
LECTURE: Photography’s Journey from Singular Object to Everything Everywhere All at Once
I’m joined by Art Historian Elizabeth Howie as we explore the changing function of images in culture. Zoom lecture/discussion hosted by the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South / Part of the 2024 Artist in Residence year
August 15, 2024 / 7-8:30 PM
LECTURE: Women in Early Photography
I’m joined by Art Historian Elizabeth Howie, a scholar of the history and theory of photography, to explore and discuss a variety of experiences of women photographers from photography’s beginnings in the mid-1800’s to the 20th century. Zoom lecture/discussion hosted by the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South / Part of the 2024 Artist in Residence year.
March 26th, 2024 / 7-8 PM
EXHIBIT: Our Disappearing Darkness at The Fruit
Part of the 2023 Click! Photography Festival
One day only / October 12th 2023 / Durham NC
EXHIBIT: Beyond the Horizon group exhibition curated by Christina Wytko Marchington
Cassilhaus Gallery / Chapel Hill NC
March 12th – September 17th 2023
VIDEO: Cassilhaus Collection Oral History: Director Frank Konhaus on collecting MJ Sharp’s work
EXHIBIT: Reflections on Light: Works from the NCMA Collection
North Carolina Museum of Art / Raleigh NC
September 9th 2020 – July 11th 2021
EXHIBIT: Coined in the South
The Mint Museum Uptown / Charlotte NC
October 11th 2019 – February 16th 2020
EXHIBIT: Across County Lines: Contemporary Photography from the Piedmont
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University / Durham NC
October 4th 2018 – February 10th 2019
EXHIBIT: Long Exposure: A pinhole photography show curated by Chris Vitiello,
The Carrack / Durham NC
April 12th – 29th 2018
Artist’s Residency at the Power Plant Gallery / Durham NC
July 2016 Open studio visiting Thursdays – Saturdays from 11-6
Friday 7/29 at noon “Why Photograph Dead Bugs? Art critic Chris Vitiello and art historian Elizabeth Howie weigh in on MJ Sharp’s ‘The Terror Triptych'”
EXHIBIT: Eureka!
Allcott Gallery at the Hanes Art Center / UNC – Chapel Hill NC
November 12th – December 11th 2015
EXHIBIT: PhotoVision: Selections from a Decade of Collecting
Ackland Museum of Art / Chapel Hill NC
September 19th 2014 – January 4th 2015
EXHIBIT: Winter Show
Greenhill Center for North Carolina Art / Greensboro NC
December 8th 2013 – January 12th 2014
EXHIBIT: Close to Home: A Decade of Acquisitions
North Carolina Museum of Art / Raleigh NC
August 18th 2013 – February 9th 2014
EXHIBIT: Light Sensitive: Photographic Works from North Carolina Collections
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University / Durham NC
February 14th – May 12th 2013
VIDEO: MJ Sharp: The Night Had Become My Habitat, a short film by Emma Gilmore-Cronin & Debbie Ripley, 2012
REVIEW: Chris Vitiello’s review of Light Cache in the Independent
REVIEW: Daylight Books review of Light Cache
EXHIBIT: Light Cache
Exhibit at Craven Allen Gallery / Durham NC
December 3rd 2011 – February 11th 2012
EXHIBIT: Blackbird Whistling / Or Just After: Seven women reflect on dystopia: curated by Jeff Whetstone
Durham Art Guild / Durham NC
October 22nd – December 5th 2010
EXHIBIT: Frank & MJ Pick the Super Yummies
Scotland Ho! Project Investor Fundraiser
Cassilhaus Gallery / Chapel Hill NC
December 2009
ARTICLE: Visions de Nuit (online and print magazine article)
Saskia Ooms for Espirit D’Avant
December 2009
BOOK: Night & Low-light Photography
Featuring interviews with contemporary night photographers
By Jill Waterman 2008
EXHIBIT: New Currents in Contemporary Art : MFA Exhibit
Ackland Art Museum / Chapel Hill NC
April 2007
EXHIBIT: Landscape at the Limit Invitational Exhibit
Curated by Jonathan Stuhlman of the Mint Museum, Charlotte NC
Second Street Gallery / Charlottesville VA
March 2nd – April 28th 2007