Sharon Udoh is a Nigerian-American pianist, improviser, and hymnologist.

Her initial music training was shaped in large part by her decades-long membership in the Pentecostal Church;
in her work, she brings a deep-rooted experience with religious music to non-religious musical contexts primarily via improvisation.

In 2019, during a residency at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Sharon met director Lars Jan, who recruited her to join his production of Joan Didion’s The White Album. There, she was spotted by Jonathan Snipes of the experimental rap group clipping., with whom she has been recording and performing since 2019, appearing with them on NPR’s Tiny Desk in October 2025.

Sharon is a 2026 United States Artist fellow. Her current projects include Fellowship Meal, an ever-changing group that showcases her personal style in marrying traditional hymns and free jazz; Potliquor, an exploration of Black gospel music abstraction with turntablist Allen Moore; Love Bless America, a film and video installation centered upon a 21st-century hymn, with Joshua Abrams, derived by Brussels-based French artist Pierre Bismuth; Blue, an adventurous, genre-bending new work exploring buried blues heroes of the past, alongside queer artists writer-performer Paul Outlaw, multimedia composer and guitarist Dudley Saunders, and theater director Sara Lyons; and her eponymous, ongoing solo project that draws from her deep relationship to hymn literature in the United States.
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