Sharon Tang is a multidisciplinary artist, muralist, and scientist who was born in Hong Kong and raised in Queens, NY. After completing her undergraduate degree in studio art and Russian studies, she taught kindergarten in Washington, D.C. and then earned her master’s degree in speech-language pathology. She currently lives in Madison, WI and balances art making with her doctoral program in cell and molecular biology.

Sharon often draws on her experience in education, communication, and the sciences to drive her creative practice and connect with the public. She has worked as a community artist with Dane Arts Mural Arts (DAMA) where she also developed curriculum and facilitated DAMA’s mural making fundamentals course. As a 2022-2024 Kohler Art Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery, she created an interactive, multimodal, traveling art installation in collaboration with a geneticist to promote informal scientific learning and educational access. She is broadly driven by the intersections found in curiosity and connection and strives to combine these elements through public art to help communities engage in the spaces around them.