Education
2023 MH, summa cum laude, Visual Studies, University of Colorado Denver
2019 BA, summa cum laude, Outstanding Graduate, Art History, University of Colorado Denver
2019 BFA, summa cum laude, Photography, University of Colorado Denver
Additional Educational Experience
2016 Study Abroad via University of Colorado Denver, Historic Processes in Photography, Italian History, and Optics, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
Professional Experience
2022—Present Lecturer, University of Colorado Denver
2020—Present Executive Director and Curator, Denver Digerati
2019—Present Artist Assistant, Oliver Herring
2021—2022 Gallery Manager, (Interim) Emmanuel Art Gallery
2020—2021 Researcher, Contract, Creation of Statewide Mural Database, OEDIT, State of Colorado
2019—2020 Chief Curator of Art and Education, Center for the Arts Evergreen
2017—2019 Associate Curator, Emmanuel Art Gallery
2007—2019 Commercial Photographer, Sharifa Moore Photography, LLC
2015—2018 Certified Yoga and Meditation Instructor
1998—2007 Private Sector, Automotive Industry, Volkswagen/Audi
Teaching Experience
Instructor of Record
2022—Present Lecturer, Instructor of Record, University of Colorado Denver, Department of Visual Arts
SP24 International Perspectives Through Animation
SP24 Intro to Digital Photography
FA23 International Perspectives Through Animation
FA23 Intro to Digital Photography
FA23 Fostering Creativity
SP23 Intro to Digital Photography
SP23 Photographic Fundamentals
FA22 Intro to Digital Photography
FA22 Photographic Fundamentals
Additional Teaching Experience
2022 Lead Educator, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Bereavement Support, Intro to Animation (6-week course), Aurora, CO
2022 Lead Educator, Morey Middle School, Denver Public Schools, Stop Motion Workshop and Lecture at the Sie Film Center, Denver, CO
2022 Lead Educator, North High School, Denver Public Schools, Interdisciplinary drawing and 2D animation (8-week course, 4 sections), Contract PlatteForum, Denver, CO
2022 Lead Educator, DSST Cole, Denver Public Schools Intro to Animation (6-week course), Contract PlatteForum, Denver, CO
2022 Educator Support, Evergreen Middle School, Jeffco Public Schools, Curriculum Development, Evergreen, CO
2021 Lead Educator, Denver Digerati, GIF Workshop for Teens, (6-week course), Denver, CO
2021 Lead Educator, Denver Digerati, GIF Workshop for Teens, (6-week course), Denver, CO
2020 Lead Educator, Platteforum Artlab, Intro to Animation (8-week course), Denver, CO
2019 Lead Educator, Studio Altieri, Month of Photography, Denver Cyanotype and the Digital Negative, Denver, CO
Awards/Grants/Fellowships/Residencies
2023 Residency, Signal Culture, Loveland, CO
2023 Grant, Bonfils-Stanton, for Denver Digerati, Co-author
2023 Grant, Colorado Dept of Television and Media, for Denver Digerati, Co-author
2022 Grant, Denver Arts and Venues, for Denver Digerati
2022 Grant, Bonfils-Stanton, for Denver Digerati
2022 Grant, Colorado Creative Industries, for Denver Digerati
2021 Grant, Denver Arts and Venues, for Denver Digerati
2021 Grant, Bonfils-Stanton, for Denver Digerati
2021 Grant, Colorado Creative Industries, for Denver Digerati
2021 Grant, Colorado Dept of Television and Media, for Denver Digerati
2020 Grant, Bonfils-Stanton, for Denver Digerati
2020 Grant, Colorado Dept of Television and Media, for Denver Digerati
2019 Outstanding Graduate Award, University of Colorado Denver
2019 Fellowship, EUReCA, University of Colorado Denver
2019 RaCAS Symposium, Juried, Awarded 1st Place in Arts and Humanities
2019 CAM – Dean’s Colorado Merit Scholarship
2018 CAM-D & L Melnich Scholarship
2017 CU Lynx Scholarship
2016 CU Global Studies Scholarship
Exhibitions
2024 Exquisite Corpse, Group Exhibition, Curated by Shana Cruz-Thompson, (Pending), Denver, CO
2023 WORD/SOUND/IMAGE/BODY, Group Performances, Curated by Joshua Ware, Denver, CO
2023 Variation Elsewhere, Group Screening, Curated by Laurids Sonne, Boulder, CO
2022 Inculcation, Solo Exhibition, Curated by Ilan Gutin, Art Gym, Denver, CO
2022 woe v. rade: 14 voices on the erosion of the 14th amendment, Group Exhibition, Curated by Jasmine Abena Colgan, Pirate Gallery, Denver, CO
2022 Night Lights Denver, Group Exhibition, Public Projection Animation, Curated by David Moke, Denver, CO
2022 The Rite of Spring Break, Group Exhibition, Curated by Emilie Trice, Denver, CO
2021 Denver Collage Club, Group Exhibition, Month of Photography, Curated by Mark Sink and Mario Zoots, Alto Gallery, Denver, CO
2021 Snapped, Group Exhibition, Month of Photography, Denver, CO
2021 Denver Collage Club, Group Exhibition, Public Projection, Curated by Mark Sink and Mario Zoots, Denver, CO
2021 Big Picture Colorado, Group Exhibition, Juried and Curated by Mark Sink, 40 West Arts District, Denver, CO
2021 Quickie, Group Exhibition, Curated by Livy Snyder, Denver, CO
2021 CU Denver Student Show, Group Exhibition, Juried by Ralph Nagel, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
2020 Big Picture Colorado, Group Exhibition, Crush Walls Denver, Juried and Curated by Mark Sink, Rino Arts District, Denver, CO
2020 Room 186, Group Exhibition, Curated by Livy Snyder, Denver, CO
2019 Deconstructed, Group Exhibition, Curated by Leah Diament, Studio Altieri, Denver, CO
2019 Guilty, Group Exhibition, Juried and Curated by Courtney Lane Stell, Denver, CO
2018 Guilty as Charged, Group Exhibition, Juried by Michael Paglia, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
2017 CU Denver Student Show, Group Exhibition, Juried by Kim Manaiekk, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
2016 Student Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
Visiting Artist Lectures/Presentations/Critiques
2023 Guest Critique, Art Gym, Denver, CO
2023 Visiting Artist Lecturer, Professor Michael Brohman, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO
2023 Guest Lecturer, Professor Erin Espelie, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
2023 Visiting Artist Lecturer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Young Adult Program, Denver, CO
2023 Guest Lecturer, Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University, Teen Program, Denver, CO
2023 Visiting Artist Lecturer, University of Colorado Denver, Lynx Camp for Teens, Denver, CO
2023 Guest Lecturer, Dr. Kevin Sweet, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
2022 Guest Lecturer, Professor Lori Emerson, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
2019 Guest Lecturer, Professor Carol Golemboski, University of Colorado, Denver, Cyanotype and the Digital Negative, Denver, CO
2019 Guest Lecturer, Professor Carol Golemboski, University of Colorado, Denver, Visual Language through Social Media, Denver, CO
Exhibitions/Performances Curated
2024 LIVE/WORK, Artist Name Not Yet Public, Pending, Curator, Evergreen, CO
2024 Laura Conway, Pending, Curator, Denver Evans School Residency, Denver, CO
2024. Closing Performances for Media Live: Technology As Healing, Co-curated with Cherish Marquez Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2024 Nima Bahrehmand and Laurids Sonne, Curator, Denver Evans School Residency, Denver, CO
2023 Digital Daily, Public LED, Curator, On-going since 2021, rotation that changes every 6-weeks, Denver, CO
2023 Intersect, Documentary Series, Co-curated and Produced with Kevin Sweet, Season 1 (post-production), Denver, CO
2023 Sasha De Koninck, Pending, Curator, Denver Evans School Residency, Denver, CO
2023 Julio Alejandro, Pending, Curator, Denver Evans School Residency, Denver, CO
2023 Phillip Stearns, Denver Evans School Residency, Denver, CO (no output parameters)
2023 WORD/SOUND/IMAGE/BODY, Co-curated with Joshua Ware, Performance Event Series, Lafayette, CO
2023 Keys of Fury, Type-In Beyond the Scrolling Horizon, Raquel Meyers, Co-curated with Daniel Maw, Laramie County Community College, Laramie, WY
2023 Denver Digerati Night Lights Denver Takeover, Public Projection Project, Curator, Daniels and Fisher Clocktower, Denver, CO
2023 Digerati Emergent Media Festival Exhibition: Welcome to the Here and Now, Curator, Denver Evans School, Denver, CO
2023 Welcome to the Here and Now, Opening Night Screening, Curator, Digerati Emergent Media Festival, Sie Film Center, Denver, CO
2023 Welcome to the Here and Now, Co-curated with Faiyaz Jafri, Digerati Emergent Media Festival, Denver, CO
2023 Silent Screen, Public LED Program, Curator, Digerati Emergent Media Festival, Denver, CO
2023 Intersect, Co-curated with Kevin Sweet, CU Experience Gallery, Denver, CO
2023 LIVE/WORK, Raquel Meyers, Curator, In-home Artist Residency, Evergreen/Denver, CO
2023 WORD/SOUND/IMAGE, Co-curated with Joshua Ware, Performance Event Series, Denver, CO
2023 Laura Shill, Denver Evans School Residency, Denver, CO (no output parameters)
2023 Fractions, Tobias Fike, Curator, Denver Evans School Residency, Denver, CO
2023 Forest of Shadows, Autumn Thomas, Curator, Denver Evans School Residency, Denver, CO
2023 Trans Praxis, Teague McDaniels, Curator, Denver Evans School Residency, Denver, CO
2023 Ofeam Theater, Curator, Meow Wolf, Denver, CO
2023 Homecore, Quinru Zhang, Curator, Denver Evans School Residency, Denver, CO
2023 WORD/SOUND/IMAGE, Co-curated with Joshua Ware, Performance Event Series, Denver, CO
2023 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Zeitgeist Films, Collaborative premier w/ pre-show, Curator, Sie Film Center, Denver Film, Denver, CO
2023 Momento Sanctum, Jensina Endresen w/ Shana Cruz-Thompson, Denver Evans School Residency, Denver, CO
2023 Hall of Mirrors, Max Mather w/ Austin Slominski, Curator, Denver Evans School Residency, Denver, CO
2023 WORD/SOUND/IMAGE, Co-curated with Joshua Ware, Performance Event Series, Denver, CO
2023 Topographies of Artificial Desire, Paulus van Horne and Andy DiLallo, Curator, Denver Evans School Residency, Denver, CO
2023 Osmosis, Maria Paula Morera w/ Daniel Vaughn, Curator, Denver Evans School Residency, Denver, CO
2022 Tilt West Journal: Art & Science, Co-curated with Alana Quinn, Joel Swanson, and Brenton Weyi, and Co-managing editor with Sarah Mackenzie, Denver/Boulder, CO
2022 Future Forging: Mythos of the Cybernaut, Co-curator with Cherish Marquez, CU Experience Gallery, Denver, CO
2022 Silent Screen, Public LED Program, Co-curated with Beatie Wolf, Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO
2022 Denver Digerati Night Lights Denver Takeover, Public Projection Project, Co-curated with Ivar Zeile, Daniels and Fisher Clocktower, Denver, CO
2022 7th Dimension, Co-curated with Ivar Zeile, Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO
2022 Techno Restlessness, Curator, Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO
2022 Synchronous Orbits, Curator, Night Lights Denver for Women’s History Month, Denver, CO
2021 New Frontiers, Curator, Art Gym, Denver, CO
2021 Silent Screen, Public LED Program, Curator, Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO
2021 Denver Digerati Night Lights Denver Takeover, Public Projection Project, Co-curated with Ivar Zeile, Daniels and Fisher Clocktower, Denver, CO
2021 Regeneration, Co-curated with Ivar Zeile, Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO
2021 Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die Redux: Punk and New Wave Graphic Design, Co-curator with Dr. Maria Buszek, Jeff Lambson, and Students, Exhibition Design and
Preparator, Emmanuel Gallery, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO
2020 World on Fire, Co-curated with Ivar Zeile, Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO
2020 A Visual History of Video Games, Curator, Public LED, Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO
2019 31 Days, Oliver Herring, Associate Curator, Emmanuel Gallery, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO
2019 Whichcraft, Curator, Next Stage Gallery, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Month of Photography, Denver, CO
2018 My Kid Can Do That, Co-curated with Michael Brohman, Emmanuel Gallery, University of Colorado Denver
2018 Your Shopping Cart is Empty, Aram Bartholl, Co-curated with Jeff Lambson and Students, Emmanuel Gallery, University of Colorado Denver
2017 Belleza Mexicana: Art from the Abarca Family, Co-curated with Jeff Lambson and Students, Emmanuel Gallery, University of Colorado Denver
Board Positions
2023—Present Colorado Committee for the National Museum for Women in the Arts
2020—Present Tilt West, Roles served: Vice President and Treasurer
Press
BOULDER WEEKLY Me, Myself and You, March 2024
VOYAGE DENVER Interview: Sharifa Lafon, March 2024
WESTWORD Roll Into an Arty Weekend, September 2023
DENVER POST What to do this week in Denver, September 2023
WESTWORD Cowboy, Charlie Russell, Denver Walls and More Art This Weekend, September 2023
WYOMING NEWS Denver Digerati Brings Digital Artist to LCCC, September 2023
WESTWORD The Best Art Openings, Shows, Events and Sales This Weekend, August 2023
CANVAS REBEL Meet Sharifa Moore, April 2023
SOUTHWEST CONTEMPORARY New Media Leader Denver Digerati Looks Towards an Educational and Local Community Focused Future, December 2022
COEVAL MAGAZINE Interview: Ivar Zeile and Sharifa Moore, October 2022
CARTOON BREW Digital Animation Fest Supernova Returns To Denver For Seventh Edition, September 2022
WESTWORD Sharifa Moore Inculcation, June 2022
BUSINESS OF ANIMATION Top 10 Annual Animation Events That Animators Should Attend, May 2022
WESTWORD Women’s History Month, March 2022
WESTWORD Colorado Creatives: Sharifa Moore by Susan Froyd, October 2019
WESTWORD Maria Elena Buszek on Women and Punk in Art, August 2019
WESTWORD Six Things for Art Lovers to Do and See This Weekend by Susan Froyd, May 2018