Sharon Horvath (born 1958) is an American visual artist and educator. She teaches at

State University of New York at Purchase The State University of New York at Purchase (commonly Purchase College or SUNY Purchase) is a public liberal arts college in Purchase, New York. It is one of 13 comprehensive colleges in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. It was ...

. Her artwork is

mixed media In visual art, mixed media describes artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed. Assemblages, collages, and sculpture are three common examples of art using different media. Materials used to create mixed media art inc ...

and made with materials such as pigments, inks, and polymer.

Early life and education

Sharon Horvath was born on December 5, 1958, in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended

Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...

(BFA 1980) in New York City, and

Tyler School of Art The Tyler School of Art and Architecture is based at Temple University, a large, urban, public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tyler currently enrolls about 1,350 undergraduate students and about 200 graduate students in a wid ...

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptists, Baptist minister Russell Conwell an ...

(MFA 1985) in

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, Pennsylvania. In the summer of 1985, she attended

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture is an artists residency located in Madison, Maine, just outside of Skowhegan. Every year, the program accepts online applications from emerging artists from November through January, and selects 65 t ...

Career

Horvath's artwork is generally made on canvas or mounted paper, and involved a mixture of materials such as pigments, inks, and

polymer A polymer (; Greek ''poly-'', "many" + '' -mer'', "part") is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules called macromolecules, composed of many repeating subunits. Due to their broad spectrum of properties, both synthetic and ...

. Her early art fluctuated between abstraction and figurative. Her later art is abstract, often colorful, and inspired by

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. Horvath teaches at

(Purchase College) since 2006. From 2011 to 2013, she was a department chair at Purchase College. She has also taught at the

University of the Arts, Philadelphia The University of the Arts (UArts) is a private art university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its campus makes up part of the Avenue of the Arts in Center City, Philadelphia. Dating back to the 1870s, it is one of the oldest schools of art or ...

, and

Massachusetts College of Art and Design Massachusetts College of Art and Design, branded as MassArt, is a public college of visual and applied art in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1873, it is one of the nation’s oldest art schools, the only publicly funded independent art schoo ...

. She was awarded the

Anonymous Was A Woman Award The Anonymous Was A Woman Award is a grant program for women artists who are over 40 years of age, in part to counter sexism in the art world. It began in 1996 in direct response to the National Endowment for the Arts' decision to stop funding in ...

in 2005, the

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

for fine arts in 1992, and a fellow at the

Fine Arts Work Center The Fine Arts Work Center is a non-profit enterprise devoted to encouraging the growth and development of emerging visual artists and writers through residency programs, to the propagation of aesthetic values and experience, and to the restoratio ...

in Provincetown, Massachusetts from 1985 to 1986. She became a National Academician in 2015, awarded by the

National Academy of Design The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the f ...

in New York City. She was awarded the

Rome Prize The Rome Prize is awarded by the American Academy in Rome, in Rome, Italy. Approximately thirty scholars and artists are selected each year to receive a study fellowship at the academy. Prizes have been awarded annually since 1921, with a hiatus ...

by the

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in 1997. Her work is in museum collections, including the

Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, located in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on the city's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egypt ...

, the

, and

Utah Museum of Fine Arts The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is the region's primary resource for culture and visual arts. It is located in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building in Salt Lake City, Utah on the University of Utah campus near Rice-Eccles Stadium. Wor ...

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

* 1990, ''Sharon Horvath'', Zoe Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. * 1998, ''Works from Rome'',

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with College admission ...

, Fayerweather Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. * 1998, ''Sharon Horvath'',

Tibor De Nagy Gallery The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is an art gallery located on Rivington Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan. History Tibor de Nagy Gallery is among the earliest modern art galleries in New York City. The gallery was founded by ...

, New York City, New York, U.S. * 2001, ''Sharon Horvath: Recent Paintings'', Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York City, New York, U.S. * 2005, ''Sharon Horvath: Beds and Ball Fields'', Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. * 2010, ''Sharon Horvath'', Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 138 10th Ave, New York City, New York, U.S. * 2014, ''Sharon Horvath: Cosmicomics’ and ‘Varanasi Notebook'', Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 138 10th Avenue, New York City, New York, U.S. * 2019, ''Owls Stare at Paintings’ Busted Eyeballs'', Pierogi Gallery, 155 Suffolk Street, New York City, New York, U.S.

Group exhibitions

* 1985, ''New American Talent 1985'',

Laguna Gloria Art Museum The Contemporary Austin - Laguna Gloria, formerly known as the AMOA-Arthouse at Laguna Gloria, is the former home of Clara Driscoll and site of a 1916 Italianate-style villa on the shores of Lake Austin in Austin, Texas. It was the original hom ...

, Austin, Texas, U.S. * 1985, ''44th Annual Awards Painting Exhibition'',

Cheltenham Center for the Arts The George K. Heller School, also known as the Cheltenham Center for the Arts, is a historic school building located in Ashmead Village, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was originally built in 1883 to house the first Che ...

, Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, U.S. * 1985, Hudson D. Walker Gallery,

Provincetown Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States. A small coastal resort town with a year-round population of 3,664 as of the 2020 United States Census, Provincet ...

, Massachusetts, U.S. * 1988, ''Paintings by Sharon Horvath and Drawings by Susan Hambleton'', Cava Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. * 1990, ''Contemporary Philadelphia Artists: A Juried Exhibition, April 22 to July 8, 1990'', Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. * 1992, ''Drawings'', Victor Munroe Gallery, 130 Prince Street, New York City, New York, U.S.; featuring Sharon Horvath,

Gregory Amenoff Gregory Amenoff (born 1948) is an American painter. He is located in the tradition of the early American Modernist painters Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Burchfield, Milton Avery, Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley. In the early 80s his work was often a ...

Suzanne Bocanegra Suzanne Bocanegra is an American artist living in New York City. Her works include performance and installation art as well as visual and sound art. Her work is exhibited internationally. Career Bocanegra's work is held in the permanent coll ...

, Elizabeth Dworkin, Robert Kelly, Patrick Cauley, Naoto Nakagawa * 1997, ''Place'',

Muhlenberg College Muhlenberg College is a private liberal arts college in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1848, Muhlenberg College is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is named for Henry Muhlenberg, the German patriarch of Luther ...

, Martin Art Gallery, Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S.; featuring Horvath, Mary Hambleton, Robin Hill, and Suzanne Bocanera

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