Sharon Horvathgrew up in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to NYC when she was 17 where she received her BFA from The Cooper Union and later, MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia and Rome, and also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Horvath’s awards include a Fulbright Research Fellowship to India, a John Simon Memorial Foundation Grant for Painting, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, the Anonymous was a Woman Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Painting and, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, a Prize for Painting from the National Academy Museum, a Mid-Atlantic NEA Regional Fellowship, an Elizabeth Foundation Grant for Painting. Other recognitions include the Faculty Prize for Outstanding Commitment as a Teacher and a Mentor from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the annual alumni award from Tyler School of Art. Horvath is an Academician of the National Academy Museum and School and Professor of Art in Painting and Drawing at Purchase College, SUNY.
S H A R O N H O R V A T H
Born Cleveland, Ohio 1958, works in Brooklyn and Andes, NY
Professor, Painting and Drawing, Purchase College, SUNY
SharonHorvath.com , Sharon.Horvath1958@gmail.com
E D U C A T I O N
MFA Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA and Rome, Italy
BFA The Cooper Union, New York
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
U P C O M I N G E X H I B I T I O N S
March 2026
“Inviting the Bell” Bookstein Projects, NYC
May 2026
“Brick by Brac” Tarq Gallery, Mumbai, India Curated by Tom Burchkardt and Sameer Kulavoor
O N E-P E R S O N E X H I B I T I O N S
2024
“Small Myriad” Bookstein Projects, NYC
2022
“Five Hundred Lifetimes”, Pierogi Gallery, Armory Art Fair, two-person booth with Charles Yuen, Javits Center, NYC
2019
“Owls Stare at Paintings’ Busted Eyeballs”
Pierogi Gallery, NYC
2017
“Darker” Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2016
“Ohio Eye” Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2015
“Bubble Up” Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2014
Cosmicomics”, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, “New York, NY
Varanasi Notebook”, Lori Bookstein, Fine Art “New York, NY
2012
The Drawing Room Gallery, Paintings, East Hampton, NY, 2012
2011
“Lovelife,” Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
SPiN New York, “The SPiN Show: Works on Paper, 2006-2011,” New York, NY
2009
“Parts of a World," Lori Bookstein Fine Art, " New York, NY
2008
The Drawing Room Gallery, "Peaceable: Paintings and Works on Paper,” East Hampton, NY
Victoria Monroe Fine Art, Boston, MA
2006
The Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2005
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, "Works on Paper," New York, NY
Victoria Munroe Fine Art, "New Paintings," Boston, MA
2004
Victoria Munroe Fine Art, "Works on Paper," Boston, MA
2001
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery 817, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1999
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Anderson Gallery, “Recent Paintings,” Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1998
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, "Rome Series and Other Works," New York, NY
Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1997
American Academy in Rome, Italy
1993
Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991
Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA
1989
Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1987
Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA
Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
S E L E C T E D G R O U P A N D T W O-P E R S O N E X H I B I T I O N S
2025
“POSIT Online Journal of Literature and Art”
https://positjournal.com/2025/09/24/sharon-horvath/
“Psychedelic” Andes Art Academy, Andes, NY
2024
Pierogi Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibition
“Mother” Tryst Art Fair, with Dorado 806 Projects, Santa Monica, CA
“Vigil” Dorado 806 Projects, Santa Monica, CA
2023
“Jewels and Binoculars” Susie Bellamy and Sharon Horvath
1053 Gallery, Fleischmanns, NY
“Heaven is a Different Place” Curated by Travis Fairclough, Uncle Brother, Hancock, NY
“Alive and Frisky”, Four Painters at Katherine Markel Gallery, NYC, curated by Fran Shalom
“Cosmophilia”, Works by Laura Battle, Sharon Horvath and Jenny Lynn McNutt, Brook No Evil Farm, Red Hook, NY
“Three Cats” Paintings by Susie Bellamy, Tom Pappas and Sharon Horvath Diamond Hollow Books, Andes, NY
“Cuts a Figure” Leeway, Sharon Springs, NY, curated by Michelle Weinberg
2022
“Weeds and Spores” Alexandre Gallery, curated by Faye Hirsch, NYC
“Askew” DC Moore Gallery, NYC
“Baggage” The Ice House Gallery, CT and Russell Janis Gallery Brooklyn, curated by KK Kozik
2021
“Artists Draw Their Studios” Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and Marymount Manhattan College, curated by Michelle Weinberg
“Pierogi Pulp” and “Make Art Not War”, Pierogi Gallery, NYC
2019
“Bed” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Curated by David Humphrey and Kate Javens
“The Practice of Everyday Life” Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Curated by Etty Yaniv and Tirtzah Basel
“Baseball Show” Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
Curated by Andrew Prazner
2018
“Too Silly to be Sad”
ESXLA East Side International, Los Angeles, curated by Christopher Ulivo
2017
“Traces” Featuring: Sharon HORVATH, Darina KARPOV, Sermin KARDESTUNCER, Annie VOUGHT, Pierogi Gallery, NY
2018
Cross Contemporary, Saugerties, NY
“The State of New York Painting” Kingsborough Art Museum
2016
Maier Museum, “Threatening Beauty “Lynchburg, VA
“All of Tomorrow’s Parties” Hathaway David Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA
“Drishti a Concentrated Gaze” NURTUREart, Avenue of the America’s Art Gallery, NYC
“Tower of Babel” Schema Projects, Brooklyn, Traveling to: Givatayim City Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel &
Trebisonda Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Perugia, Italy
“Elementary: Sharon Butler, Patricia Miranda, Sharon Horvath” Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA
“Conference of the Birds Shirley Fiterman Art Center, NYC
“Down the Rabbit Hole” Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2015
“Working Women” Mugar Gallery, Colby-Sawyer College, curated by Burt Yarborough
Brian Morris Gallery “Worlds Without End”
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, “Community of Influence” sponsored by The Vermont Studio Center
“Circle the Wagons, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Van Deb Editions “Elective Affinities”, LIC, NY
2014
Improvised Showboat and Underdonk, Bushwick, NY
Cutlog: New York Contemporary Art Fair, Van Deb Editions
2013
Associated Gallery, “Hot Mamas”, Bushwick, NY
2012
Giampietro Gallery, “Lookoutlook”, New Haven CT
National Academy Museum “The Annual”, New York, NY
Van Deb Editions “Elective Affinities, Paintings and Prints” New York, NY
2011
"It's All Good!! (Apocalypse Now)," Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Put Up or Shut Up," New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
“Summer Paper,” Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
2010
"Gallery Artists," Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2009
“Personal Geometry,” Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
“It’s A Wonderful Life,” Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, New York, NY
"Gallery Artists," Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2008
“Here's the Thing: The Single Object Still Life,” Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY. Curated by Robert Cottingham.
"Painting Structures: Specificity and Synthesis," List Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA. Curated by Andrea Packard. Catalogue available. Traveled to The Painting Center, NYC
"Shape Shifters: New York Painters," University of North Carolina, NC. Curated by James Biederman. Travels to Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Selections from the Sixth Bureau," Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2007
"Big Drawing," Lori Bookstein Fine Art, NYC
"Take the F Train, Horvath, Heibert, Florian," Tyler School of Art, PA
"Horizon," EFA Gallery, NY Curated by David Humphrey
"Play," Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2006
"The O Show," The Shore Institute of Contemporary Art Long Branch, NJ
Aqua Art Fair with Gallery Joe, Miami Beach, FL
Scope Art Fair with Gallery Joe, New York, NY
“Frontier Creatures,” The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
“Faculty Selections,” Gallery 817, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2005
“Sharon Horvath and Charles Spurrier,” Art Strand Gallery, Provincetown, MA
“Affinity,” The Drawing Room, East Hampton, MA
“Batter Up,” Rice Pollock Gallery, Boston, MA
“Three to Get Ready, Horvath, Smith, Whitacre,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2004
“Pickup Lines,” Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Selections from the Pierogi Flatfiles,” Carlsbad Museum, Carlsbad, NM. Curated by Annie Herron
2003
“Works on Paper,” Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
“Painting Painting,” N3 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
“Inside Scoop,” Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Volatile Bodies,” Gallery One, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
“Peaceable Kingdom,” DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2002
“Intersection: Couples in Mixed Media,” DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
“Loss and Ardor,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Made in Brooklyn,” S. Cono, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Chris Martin
“1985 FAWC Fellows,” Fine Arts Work center, Provincetown, MA
“Artists to Artists,” ACE Gallery, New York, NY
“Four New York Painters,” Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ. Curated by Julie Heffernan
“Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
“Selection One,” Wythe Studio, Brooklyn, NY. Organized by The Brooklyn Rail and Phong Bui
2001
“Merry,” Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Drawings,” Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA
“Works on Paper,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
“Art + Performance by Women,” Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
“Waiting List,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Passing Through,” Shaqab College of Design Arts, Doha, Qatar
“Snapshot,” Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
“Boston Drawing Project,” The Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
“Pierogi Flatfiles,” Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2000
“Multiple Sensations,” Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco, CA. From the Pierogi Flatfiles
“Group Show,” Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“To Detail,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Selections 2000,” The Bakalar and Huntington Galleries, Mass College of Art, Boston, MA
1999
“American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
“26 American Artists,” Gallery Campo and Campo, Antwerp, Belgium
“A Closer Look 3,” Acadia College, Glenside, PA
1998
“Summer Group Exhibition,” Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
“Summer Group Exhibition,” DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
“The Thom Conjecture,” Andriola Gallery, Houston, TX
1997
“Alive and Well,” Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
“Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn,” Brooklyn Museum of Art. From the Pierogi Flatfiles
“Aerial Perspectives: Imagination, Reality and Abstraction,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY. Traveled to Kendall Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
“Landscape as Abstraction,” James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
“Place: A Group Exhibition,” Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
1996
“Rome Selection,” Temple University Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Sense Ability,” The Painting Center, New York, NY
"Sharon Horvath, Tom La Duke, Jeanne Tremmel,” Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
"Works on Paper,” Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
"Sharon Horvath and Sophie Zezmer, Mercator Projektionen,” Galerie Bellevue, Wiesbaden, Germany
"Rudy Burckhardt, Sharon Horvath, Helen Miranda Wilson,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
"Locate,” Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
"Animal, Mineral, Vegetable: A Painting Invitation,” The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
"Place,” E.S. Vandam Gallery, New York, NY
1994
"Transport,” The Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA
1993
"Construction in Process IV,” Project: A Mapping Room, The Artist's Museum, Lodz, Poland
"American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
"Lyric with an Edge,” Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
"New York on Paper,” Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1992
"Annual Collector's Exhibition,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
"The Map is not a Territory,” Rosenwald-Wolfe Gallery, Philadelphia College of Art and Design, PA
1991
“The Symbolic Field,” Wallace Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State College, MA
"Philadelphia Juvenilia: The Art of Future Past,” Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
1990
"Contemporary Philadelphia Artists,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
"Notions of Place,” Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
"Selected Works on Paper,” Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
"Fresh Contexts,” Augustana College, Rock Island, IL
"Paper,” Acadia College Art Gallery, Elkins Park, PA
"This Land is our Land,” Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA
1989
"Topographies: an Exhibition of Portraits and Maps,” Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
"Ice Age,” Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA
1988
"Land,” ACA Gallery, New York, NY
"Susan Hambleton and Sharon Horvath,” Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Unrealism,” Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1987
"Summer Review,” Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA
"Selected Works,” Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1985
"Annual May Show of Painting and Sculpture,” The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
"New American Talent,” Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
A W A R D S A N D R E S I D E N C I E S
2022
Art Lab, University of Virginia, Mountain Lake Biological Station, Summer residency
2019
MacDowell Colony Fellow
2015
National Academy Museum and School Academician Inductee
2014
Kriti Gallery Residency, Varanasi, India
Gowry Institute Residency, Kallar, India
2013-14
Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Award to India
2007
Annual Alumni Award, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
2005
Anonymous was a Woman Award for Painting
2004
Faculty Prize for Outstanding Commitment as a Teacher and Mentor University of the Arts, The Richard C. von Hess
National Academy Museum, New York City Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize in Painting
1999
Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
1997
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting
Rome Prize, American Academy of Rome, Fellowship in Painting
1994
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting
Mid Atlantic/NEA Regional Fellowship for Painting
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts grant for Painting
1993
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Award for a painter under 35 years of age
1992
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting
1985-86
The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
1985
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Scholarship awarded by the Tyler School of Art
T E A C H I N G E X P E R I E N C E
2006 – Present
Professor, School of Art and Design Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
Chair, Painting and Drawing Board of Study, 2011-13 and 2022-24
2001 – 2006
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Associate Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing Program
1999 – 2001
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Visiting Assistant Professor
1998 – 1999
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Full time Visiting Artist, BFA and MFA programs
V I S I T I N G A R T I S T L E C T U R E S A N D C R I T I Q U E S
New York Studio School, Graduate reviews
FIT, New York, NY, Panel discussion “Art History in the Mind of the Artist” moderated by Jennifer Samet
Maier Museum, Lynchburg, VA “Threatening Beauty” Symposium, panel discussion and presentation
Truro Center for the Arts, Summer session one week drawing workshop “Experimental Drawing in the Landscape”
MICA Artist Lecture, Critiques and Discussion
Vermont Studio Center, Critiques and Artist Talk
Hunter College MFA Program, Kossak Painting Fellow, Critiques and Discussion
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Bard College, MFA Annandale-on-Hudson
Kutztown University, BFA Program, Kutztown, PA
Mass College of Art Summer MFA Program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
Mass College of Art, MFA Program, Boston, MA
Boston University, MFA Program, Boston, MA
University of the Arts, Summer MFA program, Philadelphia, PA
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Summer session one week painting workshop “Way to Blue”
Montclair State University, MFA Program graduate mentorship and final reviews, Montclair, NJ
New York Studio School, New York, NY
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
P R E S S A N D I N T E R V I E W S
2025
Horvath, Sharon review of Merlin James at Sikkema Jenkins Gallery “The Thinking of Painting” Published online in Two Coats of Paint https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/03/merlin-james-and-the-thinking-of-painting.html
2024
Yaniv, Etty (Review) “Small Myriad”, Art Spiel, February 2024
“Jericho’s Daughter” Book collaboration with Warren Lehrer, Book launch May, 2024 at New York Center for Book Arts
2023
Horvath, Sharon Review of Peter Mayer exhibition “Ontological Union” at Andes Academy of Art,
State of the Art Broadsheet, Andes, NY
2019
Smith, Roberta (Review) New York Times, April 25, 2019
Sigler, Jeremy, Brooklyn Rail, June 2019
Film Women Painting screening at Assembly Room during NADA NYC weekhttps://girlsclubcollection.org/women-painting-screening-at-assembly-room-nyc/2019/
2018
Book New York Studio Conversations (Part II) Edited by Stephanie Buhmann, The Green Box Press
2017
Provincetown Arts Magazine, feature article with writings by Barry Schwabsky, Jennifer Samet, Hayden Herrera, Helen Miranda Wilson, Stephanie Buhman, Karin Stephan, Paul Bowen
2016
Threatening Beauty, catalogue, Martha Kjeseth Johnson
2015
Working Women, catalogue, Bert Yarborough
2014
Smith, Roberta. (Review) New York Times, October 24, 2014
Salz, Jerry. (To Do) New York Magazine, October 2014
2011
Lowry, Vicky. (Profile), ELLE Decor, February/March, pp. 66-68
2010
Maine, Stephen. (Review), Art in America, January
Schwabsky, Barry. (Review), Artforum, January
2009
La Rocco, Ben. (Review), The Brooklyn Rail, November
Naves, Mario. (Review), CityArts, November
Saltz, Jerry. (Critics’ Pick), New York Magazine, November 9
2008
Newall, Edith. "At Swarthmore, Transformations on Canvas," The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 14
2007
Maine, Stephen. "Wild Horizons," The New York Sun, July 5
2006
Landes, Jennifer. “Seeing Artists Set Free,” The East Hampton Star
Lesko, Mike. “Drawing on her Teenage Dreams,” Bedford Sun Banner
2005
Blotnick, Judy. (Review), The Beacon Hill Times, June 7
Naves, Mario. "Cosmic Doodles,” New York Observer, May 23
McQuaid, Cate. “Gallery Pick,” The Boston Globe, June 2
2004
Naves, Mario. "Conflict of Interests," The New York Observer, May 31
Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof. Artblog, July 5
2001
Everett, Deborah. (Review), NY Arts, October
Heuer, Megan. (Review), The Brooklyn Rail, October/November
Johnson, Ken. (Review), The New York Times, September 14
Naves, Mario. “Art that Traverses the Kama Sutra?” The New York Observer, September 24
Yoder, Michael. (Interview), RISD Paintrag, April
1999
Rubey, Daniel. (Review), Art in America, June
1998
Glueck, Grace. (Review), The New York Times, September 25
Schwabsky, Barry. (Review), Artforum, December
(Review), The New Yorker, September 28
1996
Kramer, Hilton. "Burckhardt, Horvath and Wilson Landscapes at Tibor de Nagy," May
Saltz, Jerry. "Sharon Horvath, Thomas LaDuke, Jeanne Tremel," Time Out New York, July 24
Smith, Roberta. (Review), The New York Times, December 10
Sozanski, Edward. (Review), The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 19
Wilson Lloyd, Ann. "Interview with Sharon Horvath," Provincetown Arts Magazine
1991
Handy, Ellen. "New York in Review," Arts Magazine, October
Humphrey, David. "Sharon Horvath and Eliot Green," Art Issues, September/October
1990
Baker, Kenneth. "The Philadelphia Scene, an Outsider's View," The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15
Marincola, Paula. "Contemporary Philadelphia Artists," The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Exhibition Catalogue
Stapen, Nancy. (Review), The Boston Globe, November 8
1989
Torchia, Richard. "Topographies, an Exhibition of Portraits and Maps," Moore College of Art, Exhibition Catalogue
1987
Bonetti, David. (Review), The Boston Phoenix, June 19
Donohoe, Victoria. "On Galleries," The Philadelphia Inquirer, March
Schwabsky, Barry. (Review), Arts Magazine, November
P U B L I C C O L L E C T I O N S
Arkansas Art Center
Cleveland Museum of Art
Maier Museum of Art, VA
Frost Art Museum, FL
National Academy of Design Museum, NYC
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Abercrombie and Fitch
Queens Ballpark Company, NY
Born Cleveland, Ohio 1958, works in Brooklyn and Andes, NY
Professor, Painting and Drawing, Purchase College, SUNY
SharonHorvath.com , Sharon.Horvath1958@gmail.com
E D U C A T I O N
MFA Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA and Rome, Italy
BFA The Cooper Union, New York
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
U P C O M I N G E X H I B I T I O N S
March 2026
“Inviting the Bell” Bookstein Projects, NYC
May 2026
“Brick by Brac” Tarq Gallery, Mumbai, India Curated by Tom Burchkardt and Sameer Kulavoor
O N E-P E R S O N E X H I B I T I O N S
2024
“Small Myriad” Bookstein Projects, NYC
2022
“Five Hundred Lifetimes”, Pierogi Gallery, Armory Art Fair, two-person booth with Charles Yuen, Javits Center, NYC
2019
“Owls Stare at Paintings’ Busted Eyeballs”
Pierogi Gallery, NYC
2017
“Darker” Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2016
“Ohio Eye” Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2015
“Bubble Up” Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2014
Cosmicomics”, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, “New York, NY
Varanasi Notebook”, Lori Bookstein, Fine Art “New York, NY
2012
The Drawing Room Gallery, Paintings, East Hampton, NY, 2012
2011
“Lovelife,” Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
SPiN New York, “The SPiN Show: Works on Paper, 2006-2011,” New York, NY
2009
“Parts of a World," Lori Bookstein Fine Art, " New York, NY
2008
The Drawing Room Gallery, "Peaceable: Paintings and Works on Paper,” East Hampton, NY
Victoria Monroe Fine Art, Boston, MA
2006
The Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2005
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, "Works on Paper," New York, NY
Victoria Munroe Fine Art, "New Paintings," Boston, MA
2004
Victoria Munroe Fine Art, "Works on Paper," Boston, MA
2001
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery 817, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1999
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Anderson Gallery, “Recent Paintings,” Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1998
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, "Rome Series and Other Works," New York, NY
Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1997
American Academy in Rome, Italy
1993
Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991
Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA
1989
Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1987
Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA
Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
S E L E C T E D G R O U P A N D T W O-P E R S O N E X H I B I T I O N S
2025
“POSIT Online Journal of Literature and Art”
https://positjournal.com/2025/09/24/sharon-horvath/
“Psychedelic” Andes Art Academy, Andes, NY
2024
Pierogi Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibition
“Mother” Tryst Art Fair, with Dorado 806 Projects, Santa Monica, CA
“Vigil” Dorado 806 Projects, Santa Monica, CA
2023
“Jewels and Binoculars” Susie Bellamy and Sharon Horvath
1053 Gallery, Fleischmanns, NY
“Heaven is a Different Place” Curated by Travis Fairclough, Uncle Brother, Hancock, NY
“Alive and Frisky”, Four Painters at Katherine Markel Gallery, NYC, curated by Fran Shalom
“Cosmophilia”, Works by Laura Battle, Sharon Horvath and Jenny Lynn McNutt, Brook No Evil Farm, Red Hook, NY
“Three Cats” Paintings by Susie Bellamy, Tom Pappas and Sharon Horvath Diamond Hollow Books, Andes, NY
“Cuts a Figure” Leeway, Sharon Springs, NY, curated by Michelle Weinberg
2022
“Weeds and Spores” Alexandre Gallery, curated by Faye Hirsch, NYC
“Askew” DC Moore Gallery, NYC
“Baggage” The Ice House Gallery, CT and Russell Janis Gallery Brooklyn, curated by KK Kozik
2021
“Artists Draw Their Studios” Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and Marymount Manhattan College, curated by Michelle Weinberg
“Pierogi Pulp” and “Make Art Not War”, Pierogi Gallery, NYC
2019
“Bed” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Curated by David Humphrey and Kate Javens
“The Practice of Everyday Life” Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Curated by Etty Yaniv and Tirtzah Basel
“Baseball Show” Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
Curated by Andrew Prazner
2018
“Too Silly to be Sad”
ESXLA East Side International, Los Angeles, curated by Christopher Ulivo
2017
“Traces” Featuring: Sharon HORVATH, Darina KARPOV, Sermin KARDESTUNCER, Annie VOUGHT, Pierogi Gallery, NY
2018
Cross Contemporary, Saugerties, NY
“The State of New York Painting” Kingsborough Art Museum
2016
Maier Museum, “Threatening Beauty “Lynchburg, VA
“All of Tomorrow’s Parties” Hathaway David Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA
“Drishti a Concentrated Gaze” NURTUREart, Avenue of the America’s Art Gallery, NYC
“Tower of Babel” Schema Projects, Brooklyn, Traveling to: Givatayim City Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel &
Trebisonda Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Perugia, Italy
“Elementary: Sharon Butler, Patricia Miranda, Sharon Horvath” Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA
“Conference of the Birds Shirley Fiterman Art Center, NYC
“Down the Rabbit Hole” Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2015
“Working Women” Mugar Gallery, Colby-Sawyer College, curated by Burt Yarborough
Brian Morris Gallery “Worlds Without End”
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, “Community of Influence” sponsored by The Vermont Studio Center
“Circle the Wagons, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Van Deb Editions “Elective Affinities”, LIC, NY
2014
Improvised Showboat and Underdonk, Bushwick, NY
Cutlog: New York Contemporary Art Fair, Van Deb Editions
2013
Associated Gallery, “Hot Mamas”, Bushwick, NY
2012
Giampietro Gallery, “Lookoutlook”, New Haven CT
National Academy Museum “The Annual”, New York, NY
Van Deb Editions “Elective Affinities, Paintings and Prints” New York, NY
2011
"It's All Good!! (Apocalypse Now)," Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Put Up or Shut Up," New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
“Summer Paper,” Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
2010
"Gallery Artists," Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2009
“Personal Geometry,” Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
“It’s A Wonderful Life,” Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, New York, NY
"Gallery Artists," Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2008
“Here's the Thing: The Single Object Still Life,” Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY. Curated by Robert Cottingham.
"Painting Structures: Specificity and Synthesis," List Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA. Curated by Andrea Packard. Catalogue available. Traveled to The Painting Center, NYC
"Shape Shifters: New York Painters," University of North Carolina, NC. Curated by James Biederman. Travels to Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Selections from the Sixth Bureau," Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2007
"Big Drawing," Lori Bookstein Fine Art, NYC
"Take the F Train, Horvath, Heibert, Florian," Tyler School of Art, PA
"Horizon," EFA Gallery, NY Curated by David Humphrey
"Play," Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2006
"The O Show," The Shore Institute of Contemporary Art Long Branch, NJ
Aqua Art Fair with Gallery Joe, Miami Beach, FL
Scope Art Fair with Gallery Joe, New York, NY
“Frontier Creatures,” The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
“Faculty Selections,” Gallery 817, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2005
“Sharon Horvath and Charles Spurrier,” Art Strand Gallery, Provincetown, MA
“Affinity,” The Drawing Room, East Hampton, MA
“Batter Up,” Rice Pollock Gallery, Boston, MA
“Three to Get Ready, Horvath, Smith, Whitacre,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2004
“Pickup Lines,” Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Selections from the Pierogi Flatfiles,” Carlsbad Museum, Carlsbad, NM. Curated by Annie Herron
2003
“Works on Paper,” Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
“Painting Painting,” N3 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
“Inside Scoop,” Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Volatile Bodies,” Gallery One, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
“Peaceable Kingdom,” DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2002
“Intersection: Couples in Mixed Media,” DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
“Loss and Ardor,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Made in Brooklyn,” S. Cono, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Chris Martin
“1985 FAWC Fellows,” Fine Arts Work center, Provincetown, MA
“Artists to Artists,” ACE Gallery, New York, NY
“Four New York Painters,” Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ. Curated by Julie Heffernan
“Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
“Selection One,” Wythe Studio, Brooklyn, NY. Organized by The Brooklyn Rail and Phong Bui
2001
“Merry,” Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Drawings,” Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA
“Works on Paper,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
“Art + Performance by Women,” Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
“Waiting List,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Passing Through,” Shaqab College of Design Arts, Doha, Qatar
“Snapshot,” Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
“Boston Drawing Project,” The Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
“Pierogi Flatfiles,” Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2000
“Multiple Sensations,” Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco, CA. From the Pierogi Flatfiles
“Group Show,” Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“To Detail,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Selections 2000,” The Bakalar and Huntington Galleries, Mass College of Art, Boston, MA
1999
“American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
“26 American Artists,” Gallery Campo and Campo, Antwerp, Belgium
“A Closer Look 3,” Acadia College, Glenside, PA
1998
“Summer Group Exhibition,” Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
“Summer Group Exhibition,” DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
“The Thom Conjecture,” Andriola Gallery, Houston, TX
1997
“Alive and Well,” Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
“Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn,” Brooklyn Museum of Art. From the Pierogi Flatfiles
“Aerial Perspectives: Imagination, Reality and Abstraction,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY. Traveled to Kendall Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
“Landscape as Abstraction,” James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
“Place: A Group Exhibition,” Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
1996
“Rome Selection,” Temple University Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Sense Ability,” The Painting Center, New York, NY
"Sharon Horvath, Tom La Duke, Jeanne Tremmel,” Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
"Works on Paper,” Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
"Sharon Horvath and Sophie Zezmer, Mercator Projektionen,” Galerie Bellevue, Wiesbaden, Germany
"Rudy Burckhardt, Sharon Horvath, Helen Miranda Wilson,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
"Locate,” Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
"Animal, Mineral, Vegetable: A Painting Invitation,” The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
"Place,” E.S. Vandam Gallery, New York, NY
1994
"Transport,” The Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA
1993
"Construction in Process IV,” Project: A Mapping Room, The Artist's Museum, Lodz, Poland
"American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
"Lyric with an Edge,” Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
"New York on Paper,” Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1992
"Annual Collector's Exhibition,” Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
"The Map is not a Territory,” Rosenwald-Wolfe Gallery, Philadelphia College of Art and Design, PA
1991
“The Symbolic Field,” Wallace Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State College, MA
"Philadelphia Juvenilia: The Art of Future Past,” Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
1990
"Contemporary Philadelphia Artists,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
"Notions of Place,” Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
"Selected Works on Paper,” Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
"Fresh Contexts,” Augustana College, Rock Island, IL
"Paper,” Acadia College Art Gallery, Elkins Park, PA
"This Land is our Land,” Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA
1989
"Topographies: an Exhibition of Portraits and Maps,” Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
"Ice Age,” Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA
1988
"Land,” ACA Gallery, New York, NY
"Susan Hambleton and Sharon Horvath,” Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Unrealism,” Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1987
"Summer Review,” Zoe Gallery, Boston, MA
"Selected Works,” Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1985
"Annual May Show of Painting and Sculpture,” The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
"New American Talent,” Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
A W A R D S A N D R E S I D E N C I E S
2022
Art Lab, University of Virginia, Mountain Lake Biological Station, Summer residency
2019
MacDowell Colony Fellow
2015
National Academy Museum and School Academician Inductee
2014
Kriti Gallery Residency, Varanasi, India
Gowry Institute Residency, Kallar, India
2013-14
Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Award to India
2007
Annual Alumni Award, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
2005
Anonymous was a Woman Award for Painting
2004
Faculty Prize for Outstanding Commitment as a Teacher and Mentor University of the Arts, The Richard C. von Hess
National Academy Museum, New York City Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize in Painting
1999
Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
1997
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting
Rome Prize, American Academy of Rome, Fellowship in Painting
1994
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting
Mid Atlantic/NEA Regional Fellowship for Painting
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts grant for Painting
1993
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Award for a painter under 35 years of age
1992
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting
1985-86
The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
1985
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Scholarship awarded by the Tyler School of Art
T E A C H I N G E X P E R I E N C E
2006 – Present
Professor, School of Art and Design Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
Chair, Painting and Drawing Board of Study, 2011-13 and 2022-24
2001 – 2006
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Associate Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing Program
1999 – 2001
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Visiting Assistant Professor
1998 – 1999
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Full time Visiting Artist, BFA and MFA programs
V I S I T I N G A R T I S T L E C T U R E S A N D C R I T I Q U E S
New York Studio School, Graduate reviews
FIT, New York, NY, Panel discussion “Art History in the Mind of the Artist” moderated by Jennifer Samet
Maier Museum, Lynchburg, VA “Threatening Beauty” Symposium, panel discussion and presentation
Truro Center for the Arts, Summer session one week drawing workshop “Experimental Drawing in the Landscape”
MICA Artist Lecture, Critiques and Discussion
Vermont Studio Center, Critiques and Artist Talk
Hunter College MFA Program, Kossak Painting Fellow, Critiques and Discussion
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Bard College, MFA Annandale-on-Hudson
Kutztown University, BFA Program, Kutztown, PA
Mass College of Art Summer MFA Program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
Mass College of Art, MFA Program, Boston, MA
Boston University, MFA Program, Boston, MA
University of the Arts, Summer MFA program, Philadelphia, PA
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Summer session one week painting workshop “Way to Blue”
Montclair State University, MFA Program graduate mentorship and final reviews, Montclair, NJ
New York Studio School, New York, NY
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
P R E S S A N D I N T E R V I E W S
2025
Horvath, Sharon review of Merlin James at Sikkema Jenkins Gallery “The Thinking of Painting” Published online in Two Coats of Paint https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/03/merlin-james-and-the-thinking-of-painting.html
2024
Yaniv, Etty (Review) “Small Myriad”, Art Spiel, February 2024
“Jericho’s Daughter” Book collaboration with Warren Lehrer, Book launch May, 2024 at New York Center for Book Arts
2023
Horvath, Sharon Review of Peter Mayer exhibition “Ontological Union” at Andes Academy of Art,
State of the Art Broadsheet, Andes, NY
2019
Smith, Roberta (Review) New York Times, April 25, 2019
Sigler, Jeremy, Brooklyn Rail, June 2019
Film Women Painting screening at Assembly Room during NADA NYC weekhttps://girlsclubcollection.org/women-painting-screening-at-assembly-room-nyc/2019/
2018
Book New York Studio Conversations (Part II) Edited by Stephanie Buhmann, The Green Box Press
2017
Provincetown Arts Magazine, feature article with writings by Barry Schwabsky, Jennifer Samet, Hayden Herrera, Helen Miranda Wilson, Stephanie Buhman, Karin Stephan, Paul Bowen
2016
Threatening Beauty, catalogue, Martha Kjeseth Johnson
2015
Working Women, catalogue, Bert Yarborough
2014
Smith, Roberta. (Review) New York Times, October 24, 2014
Salz, Jerry. (To Do) New York Magazine, October 2014
2011
Lowry, Vicky. (Profile), ELLE Decor, February/March, pp. 66-68
2010
Maine, Stephen. (Review), Art in America, January
Schwabsky, Barry. (Review), Artforum, January
2009
La Rocco, Ben. (Review), The Brooklyn Rail, November
Naves, Mario. (Review), CityArts, November
Saltz, Jerry. (Critics’ Pick), New York Magazine, November 9
2008
Newall, Edith. "At Swarthmore, Transformations on Canvas," The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 14
2007
Maine, Stephen. "Wild Horizons," The New York Sun, July 5
2006
Landes, Jennifer. “Seeing Artists Set Free,” The East Hampton Star
Lesko, Mike. “Drawing on her Teenage Dreams,” Bedford Sun Banner
2005
Blotnick, Judy. (Review), The Beacon Hill Times, June 7
Naves, Mario. "Cosmic Doodles,” New York Observer, May 23
McQuaid, Cate. “Gallery Pick,” The Boston Globe, June 2
2004
Naves, Mario. "Conflict of Interests," The New York Observer, May 31
Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof. Artblog, July 5
2001
Everett, Deborah. (Review), NY Arts, October
Heuer, Megan. (Review), The Brooklyn Rail, October/November
Johnson, Ken. (Review), The New York Times, September 14
Naves, Mario. “Art that Traverses the Kama Sutra?” The New York Observer, September 24
Yoder, Michael. (Interview), RISD Paintrag, April
1999
Rubey, Daniel. (Review), Art in America, June
1998
Glueck, Grace. (Review), The New York Times, September 25
Schwabsky, Barry. (Review), Artforum, December
(Review), The New Yorker, September 28
1996
Kramer, Hilton. "Burckhardt, Horvath and Wilson Landscapes at Tibor de Nagy," May
Saltz, Jerry. "Sharon Horvath, Thomas LaDuke, Jeanne Tremel," Time Out New York, July 24
Smith, Roberta. (Review), The New York Times, December 10
Sozanski, Edward. (Review), The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 19
Wilson Lloyd, Ann. "Interview with Sharon Horvath," Provincetown Arts Magazine
1991
Handy, Ellen. "New York in Review," Arts Magazine, October
Humphrey, David. "Sharon Horvath and Eliot Green," Art Issues, September/October
1990
Baker, Kenneth. "The Philadelphia Scene, an Outsider's View," The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15
Marincola, Paula. "Contemporary Philadelphia Artists," The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Exhibition Catalogue
Stapen, Nancy. (Review), The Boston Globe, November 8
1989
Torchia, Richard. "Topographies, an Exhibition of Portraits and Maps," Moore College of Art, Exhibition Catalogue
1987
Bonetti, David. (Review), The Boston Phoenix, June 19
Donohoe, Victoria. "On Galleries," The Philadelphia Inquirer, March
Schwabsky, Barry. (Review), Arts Magazine, November
P U B L I C C O L L E C T I O N S
Arkansas Art Center
Cleveland Museum of Art
Maier Museum of Art, VA
Frost Art Museum, FL
National Academy of Design Museum, NYC
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Abercrombie and Fitch
Queens Ballpark Company, NY
