Biography

Sharyn O’Mara is an interdisciplinary artist. Her practice spans several media including glass, drawing, photography, and printmaking, and is interconnected by her interest in the marks of language and the language of marks.

For the past few years, her work has been comprised largely of a series of works that are collaborations with her beloved dogs, both living and dead. Working with the residue of their existence - dog hair, nose prints, tattered toys - these works are visual reflections on empathy and longing in the midst of a media-driven culture that seems most often devoid of intimacy and trust.

Her work has been exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, and is in several public and private collections in the U.S., including The Corning Museum of Glass, Toledo Museum of Art, Arkansas Arts Center, and The Fox School of Business at Temple University. She is Associate Professor of Glass at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She has also taught at RISD and The Kansas City Art Institute. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with her husband, daughter, and their two shepherds.