Sharona Franklin (*1987 in Vernon, Canada, lives and works in Victoria, Canada) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher. Working across biomaterial sculpture, including ion-cured gelatin, alongside textile, photography, visual design, and policy design, her practice coalesces discourses of disability, class, biocitizenship and care. Franklin’s practice probes the psychic, social, and biomedical conditions of living with chronic degenerative diseases influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Many of her works draw on vernacular craft traditions and botany while also referencing pharmacology and cybernetic craft, creating tensions between the domestic and the techno-scientific. Her work examines the intersections of living systems, environmental agency, and forensic data, treating documentation as a method of countering archival erasure. In her work, technological and natural systems blur: code, craft, metabolism, and maintenance operate on the same plane.

Franklin’s work has been published in The New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, and Artforum.

Franklin’s visual media practice is archived through social media platforms  @paid.technologies, @soft_seeded, @hot.crip, and @disabled_personals.

Her recent solo exhibitions include Liu Lobby Gallery, Institute for Global Issues, UBC, Vancouver (2026); Bradley Ertaskiran Gallery, Montreal (2024); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (2022); LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS, Brussels (2021); King’s Leap, New York (2020); G44 Center for Contemporary Photography, Images Festival, Toronto (2019); Patron Art House, Vancouver (2018); Sweetpup Gallery, Vancouver (2016).

Her recent group exhibitions include Victoria and Albert Museum, Dundee (2026); Studio Hanniball, Berlin (2026); Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2025), Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin (2025); Welt Der Versuchungen, Erfurt (2025); Bradley Ertaskiran Gallery, Montreal (2025); Western Washington University, Washington (2025); Migros Museum, Zurich (2023); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2023); Museum of Fine Art, Boston (2023); LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina (2023); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (2023); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (2022); Museion Bolzano, Bolzano (2022);  Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2022); Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario and Tangled Arts, Toronto (2022); Museum of Modern Kunst, Frankfurt (2021); Remai Modern Museum, Saskatoon (2021); Miriam Gallery, New York (2020); La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2020); Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (2020); University of British Columbia, Vancouver (2020); among others.

She received the Wynn Newhouse Award in 2022.