Bio
Sharon Levy is from Atlanta, GA and received her B.A in Studio Art from Bard College and her M.F.A. in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego.
Levy has had solo museum shows at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and the CSU Fullerton Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, CA. She has participated in group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, Atlanta, Austin, and Tijuana. She was a member of the Torrance Art Museum Forum mentorship program in 2018, a 2021 Sci-Art Ambassador with Supercollider Gallery (Inglewood, CA), and was a member of the Los Angeles artist collective Museum Adjacent. In 2022 she curated–along with Isabel Beavers–the exhibition Extraction: Earth, Ashes, Dust at the Torrance Art Museum. She was a 2007 West Prize finalist, and has work included in the West Collection (Oaks, PA), Traeger Headquarters (Salt Lake City, Utah), the Tetra Hotel (Sunnyvale, CA), and several private collections.
Sharon Levy lives and works in Los Angeles and Inglewood, CA.
Education
MFA – University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, Visual Art
BA – Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Studio Art
Goldsmiths College: University of London - study abroad
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Now, part of B-LA Connect, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Zoom Meeting with Museum Adjacent, High Beams 5, Los Angeles, CA
Zoom Meeting with Museum Adjacent, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA
2020 The Red Wood, online exhibition at www.theredwood.show
Unearthed, Supercollider Gallery, virtual exhibition for Ars Electronica Festival
Museum Adjacent Plays Itself, online exhibition for Maiden LA
In Excess, Spring Break Art Show with Supercollider, Los Angeles, CA
Museum Adjacent, Qipo Art Fair with Museum Adjacent, Mexico City, MX
2019 Forum II, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Museum Adjacent, Finishing Concepts, Los Angeles, CA
Generational Aesthetics, Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA
1+2=Forum, AMAX Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Blind Courier, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale, CA
2012 New Prints 2011/Autumn, Visual Arts Center/UT Austin, Austin, TX
2011 New Prints 2011/Autumn, International Print Center, New York, NY
2010 Ten, The West Collection, Oaks, PA
Art of the New Century, The Paideia Gallery, Atla
2007 MFA 2007, curated by Stephen Hepworth, University Art Gallery, La Jolla , CA
Origin’s The Goal, curated by Darin Klein, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Where: Lui Velazquez, Tijuana, Mexico
Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Fresh: New Work from UCSD, curated by Rachel Teagle, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Que Traes?, Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
Pencil On Glass, Sushi/Voz Alta, San Diego, CA
Outer Space: Sixth College, University of California, San Diego, CA
2000 Mood, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Curatorial
2022 2022 Extraction: Earth, Ashes, Dust (with Isabel Beavers) through Supercollider Gallery, Torrance Art Museum, CA
Bibliography
2022 Oros, Alitzah, “EXTRACTION: Earth, Ashes, Dust at the Torrance Art Museum,” CARLA, Issue 29, Aug, p 55
Davis, Genie, “Extracting the Global and Offering the Intimate at TAM,” Art and Cake, May 11
2019 Davis, Genie, “Adjacent, Adjacent: Multi-Curated Innovation,” Art and Cake, December 20
Mallinson, Constance, "The Poetics of Place: Blind Courier at the Brand Library" Art and Cake, August 4, 2019
Couzens, Julia, "Sidewalk Realities," Blind Courier catalog essay, August, 2019
2010 Newhall, Edith, “Curator’s Vision Reflected in West Competition’s Finalists” The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25
2007 Gray, Emma , “L.A. Confidential” artnet, October 12
Brooks, Amra, “Must See Art” L.A. Weekly, September 7
Ollman, Leah, “Count the Growth Rings” The Los Angeles Times, September 2
Pincus, Robert, “Into View” The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 20
2005 Pincus, Robert, “Two-Lane Highway” The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 20
Pincus, Robert, “Small Provocations” The San Diego Union-Tribune, March 10
2000 Johnson, Ken, “Mood” The New York Times, February 13
Grants, Fellowships, Awards, Residencies
2021 Sci-Art Ambassador, Supercollider
2019 Forum Residency, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2014 Marblehouse Project at the Quarry Residency (accepted, unable to attend)
2012 Center for Cultural Innovation, Creative Capacity Fund, Quick Grant Award
2010 West Prize Acquisition Award
2009 Alternate, Sculpture Space Residency
2008 Finalist, Art Omi Residency
2006 Artist in Residence, Lui Velazquez, Tijuana, Mexico
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
Collections
Tetra Hotel, Sunnyvale, CA
Traeger, Salt Lake City, UT
The West Collection, Oaks, PA
The James Hotel, NY
Teaching
2010 Whittier College, Visiting Professor – Basic Painting Intensive
2009 UCSD, Visiting Lecturer – Basic Sculpture (Making the Object)
2004-07 UCSD, Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Record, Intro to 2-D, 3-D, Film History
1995-1996 Bard College, TA, Intro to Drawing, Intro to Painting
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