Sharon Levy is from Atlanta, GA and graduated from Bard College
with a B.A in studio art in 1999. Upon graduating, she was the recipient of the Bard
Fellowship in Sculpture and attended the 1999 summer session at
the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts, Bard College. She completed her M.F.A. in Visual Arts from the
University of California, San Diego in 2007.
Sharon had a solo museum show of her project "The Wood" at the Santa Monica Museum
of Art in 2007. She has participated in group exhibitions in New York, San Diego, Atlanta, Tijuana and Los Angeles. In 2010 as one of ten West Prize finalists, she received an Acquisition Award for her piece "Cookie," which is now a part of the West Collection, housed in Oaks, PA.
Sharon Levy lives and works in Los Angeles.
Education
2007 MFA - University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, Visual Art 1999 BA - Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Studio Art 1997 Goldsmiths College: University of London
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Project Room 1:The Wood, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa
Monica, CA 2007 The Wood, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Marcuse Galery, UCSD 2005 New Work, first year show, Visual Arts Facility, San Diego,
CA 1999 Pieces, B.A. Thesis Exhibition,The Chocolate Factory, Red Hook,
NY
Group Exhibitions
2010 Ten, The West Collection, Oaks, PA 2010 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa
Monica, CA 2010 Art of the New Century, The Paideia Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2009 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa
Monica, CA 2008 Venice Art Walk, Venice CA 2007 Curated Artist Registry, White Columns Gallery, NY 2007 MFA 2007," curated by Stephen Hepworth, University Art Gallery, La Jolla , CA 2007 Origin's The Goal, curated by Darin Klein, LACE , Los
Angeles, CA
2006 Where: Lui Velazquez, Tijuana, Mexico 2006 Sundown Salon, Los Angeles,
CA
2005 Fresh: New Work from UCSD, curated by Rachel Teagle, 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art, SanDiego, CA 2005 Que Traes?, Estacion Tijuana,
Tijuana, Mexico 2005 Pencil On Glass, Sushi/Voz Alta,
San Diego, CA 2005 Outer Space: Sixth College,
University of California, San Diego, CA 2000 Mood, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY Bibliography
2010Newhall, Edith, "Curator's Vision Reflected in West Competition's 2010 Finalists" The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25 2007 Gray, Emma , "L.A. Confidential" artnet,
October 12 2007 Brooks, Amra, “Must See
Art” L.A. Weekly, September 7 2007 Ollman, Leah, “Count the
Growth Rings” Los Angeles Times, September 2 2007 Pincus, Robert, “Into
View” San Diego Union-Tribune, October 20 2005Pincus, Robert, “Two-lane Highway” San Diego
Union-Tribune, October 20 2005 Pincus, Robert, “Small
Provocations” San Diego Union-Tribune, March 10 2000 Johnson, Ken, “Mood” The New York Times, February 13
Grants, Fellwships, Awards, Residencies
2010 West Prize Acquisition Award 2006 Artist in Residence, Lui Velazquez, Tijuana, Mexico 2006 Russell Grant Recipient, UCSD
Visual Arts Department 2004 Graduate Student Fellowship, UCSD 1999 Bard Fellow, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts:
Bard College 1997 Suzanne Clements Zimmer Prize, Bard College
