Sharon Lockhart
Born in Norwood, Massachusetts, in 1964, Sharon Lockhart received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991 and her MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, in 1993. She has been featured in a number of solo exhibitions at venues including Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge (both in 2006); Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (both in 2005); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2001), and The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri (1998). She has also been represented in group exhibitions at venues including, most recently, the San Francisco Art Institute and the Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia (2006); the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (all in 2005); in the 2004 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, as well as at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and the Art institute of Chicago, Chicago (all in 2004).
[Extracted from acquisition proposal, 2006]