Sharon Abeles is an internationally recognized photographer and an art and play therapist in private practice with children, teens, and families. She received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and a master’s degree in family therapy from the University of North Texas. She did postgraduate training at the Family Institute of Neve Yerushalayim in Israel.

 

Her works are in the collections of major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), and the North Carolina Museum of Art; her work has appeared in many magazines and in the book Behold a Great Image: The Contemporary Jewish Experience in Photographs, edited by Sharon Strassfeld and Arthur Kurzweil.

 

Sharon is also the recipient of the Ehrenreich Photo-Optical Award. Her photography show Rooms was held at the American Cultural Center in Jerusalem, Israel. Recent exhibits include Painting with Light: Photographs as Windows into the Artist’s Unconscious (Jerusalem Theatre, Israel), Beyond the Eye: Abstract Crystal and Glass (Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, New York), I See You – ICU (Lenox Hill Hospital, New York), and Purim in Costume, a slide show at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, New York.

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In March 2024, her photograph The Splitting of the Sea appeared as part of a Passover exhibit, Chassidic in Art, New York. Her photographs of the aftermath of the October 7, 2023, Nova Music Festival massacre were featured at the Hadas Gallery and the Juneberry Tree Art Gallery in 2024 and 2025 as part of an international group exhibit, October 7: Terror, Hate, and Hope.  In 2025, Sharon released an expanded edition of Purim in Costume as a book featuring  173 photographs and contributions by Rabbi Berel Wein, Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller-Gottlieb, and Dr. Nissan Perez.