Complete Resume

Susan Sharp
53 Wyldewood Road
Easton, CT 06612
tel/fax - 203.452.7629
sharpart@sbcglobal.net

Selected Awards

2002 $5000 grant in painting from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts
2000 Top Painting award," New Art Annual, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
2002 Pillar of the Community Award, Housatonic Community College Foundation

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010 Borderlands, Heidi Cho Gallery, NYC, NY
2007 Four/Play, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT
2002 Fellowship Exhibition, CT Commission Gallery, Hartford, CT
2002 Director's Choice, Silvermine Gallery, New Cannan, CT
2002 Fluidity and Fantasy, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT
2001 Fluidity and Fantasy, Housatonic Museum of Art, Housatonic Community College, Bridgeport, CT
1999 Meditations on Water, Walter Wickiser Gallery, NY, NY
1999 Two Contemporary Painters, John Slade Ely, New Haven, CT
1997 Surround, Reece Gallery, NYC, NY
1995 Mining the Garden, Kohn Pedersen Fox Gallery, NYC, NY
1992 Water and Memory, Soho 20, NYC, NY
1992 Abstract Connections, Hays Gallery, Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT
1987 New Work, Sackler Gallery, Stamford, CT
1983 Winners CT Painters and Sculptors, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT

Selected Group Exhibition

2010 A Gathering, Fresh Paint, Culver City, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Lush (color), The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
2009 Elsewhere Curated Exhibit, Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT
2009 Architectural Digest Show, Pier 93, NYC, Anelle Gandelman Fine Art
2008 Works on Paper, Anelle Gandelman Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2008 Why Not?, WCA of CT, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
2008 Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT
2008 Uncommon Ground, Anelle Gandelman Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2008 Red Dot, NYC, Anelle Gandelman Fine Art
2007 Lineal Investigations, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
2006 Selected Works, EO art Lab, Chester ,CT
2006 Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT
2005 Scope Basel Miami, Heidi Cho Gallery
2006 Science and Culture , Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT
2004 A Coat Of Heidi Cho Gallery, NYC, NY
2000 "Building on a Legacy, Housatonic Museum of Art, Housatonic Community College, Bridgeport, CT
2000 New Art Annual 2000, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT,
2000 Eight Painters, ,Painting Center, NYC, NY
1999 New Art Annual 99at Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
1998 No England No Amsterdam 111,RealArtways, Hartford, CT
1997 Three Abstract Painters, Nancy Moore Gallery, NYC, NY
1996 Looking East, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
1995 Kouros Gallery Biennial, Kouros Gallery, NYC, NY
1993 Fragile Power Exploration of Memory, curated by Harvard Professor Dr. Daniel Schacter, Newton Art Center, Newton, MA

Education

1960-62 Syracuse University
1962-64 B.S. University of Hartford
1972-73 Housatonic Community College
1979-81 Yale University Seminars

Teaching

Silvermine School of Art faculty
Private Seminars in Studio

Selected Public Collections

State of CT, Superior Courthouse, Stamford, CT
Spinnaker Co. for Norden Technology Corporate Lobby
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Allied Office Supplies, Clifton, NJ
Trenwick Corporation, Stamford, CT
Professor Daniel Schacter, Harvard University
Chase Manhattan Bank, NY, NY
General Electric Corp., Fairfield, CT
Kenakopp Corp., Cleveland, OH
Huntington Bank, Columbus, OH
Pullman/Comley, LLC, Bridgeport,CT
Kidder Peabody Corp., NY, NY
Town of Fairfield, Fairfield, CT
Blase Manufacturing, Stratford, CT
Selected Bibliography
Time to Play, Review by Abby Luby, The Advocate and Greenwich Times, January 14, 2007
Fluidity and Fantasy, Review by Pat Rosoff, Art New England, April 2002
Fluidity and Fantasy At NCC Gallery, Review by L.P. Streitfeld, The Advocate and Greenwich Time, Sunday, February 17, 2002
65 Artists at Work in Stamford Show, Dominick Lombardi, New York Times,
Connecticut Section Art Review, Sunday, March 26, 2000
Two Abstract Painters in a Domestic Space Under Restoration ,William Zimmer
New York Times, Connecticut Section Art Review, Sunday, January 24, 1999
Abstract show pairs the ferocious with the organic, Judy Birke, New Haven Register, Sunday, January 24, 1999
Angles, Contents: The Meaning of a Box, William Zimmer, New York Times
Connecticut Section Art Review, April 13,1997
Fragile Power: Exploration of Memory, Professor Daniel Schacter, Newton Art
Center Catalogue, October, 1993
A Year of Distinction, Diversity, Vitality. Jude Schwendenwien, Hartford Courant, Sunday, December 27, 1992
James Fox: Gallery Reviews, Art and Antiques, Summer, 1992