Sharon Saltzman

Sharon Saltzman’s art has been displayed in solo and group shows, and local Sacramento galleries and competitions, including the Crocker Art Museum, Crocker Kingsley exhibit in 1979, the California State Fair, and several juried group shows at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Sacramento, CA.

More recently Ms. Saltzman’s work has been part of the Crocker Art Museum’s silent auctions: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Her pieces appear as part of the permanent collection at UC Davis Health, Betty Irene Moore Hall, School of Nursing, and private collections throughout the country. 

Lotus Splendor, a study of lotus plants was exhibited at the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Sacramento, California in March 2022. Images from this show can be seen in the Lotus Flower section of this website.

Ms. Saltzman’s interest in photography began in the 1960s while studying fine arts at her suburban Chicago high school. Outfitted with an Exakta, a German-designed single-lens reflex camera, she was exposed to the fundamentals of pre-digital photography.  Due to film photography’s constraints, Ms. Saltzman focused on surveying her surroundings, carefully composing the scene in her head, before taking the photo. 

In 1978, Ms. Saltzman earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a concentration in painting and printmaking. After graduation, she set up residence in Sacramento, where the warm climate offered opportunities to spend time outdoors. Energized by many months of blue skies and bright sunny days, she continued to develop her painterly and photography skills. 

At the cusp of the digital age, Ms. Saltzman became a founding partner in 1990 in a medical software company where she teamed with designers to brand the company and market the product. Concurrently, she immersed herself in the art of photography and grew with the rapidly changing industry. Digital technology and the advances in photography afforded Ms. Saltzman the ability to blend her first-hand knowledge of film photography with her painting experience to create masterful photographs. Over the years, her tools of the trade morphed from film-based Canon and Nikon cameras to digital cameras. These days, Ms. Saltzman is enjoying her Sony ArII mirrorless camera. A large catalog of images and an exuberance for capturing beauty through photography will keep her creating art for many years to come.