Sharon Shapiro

Photo Credit: Martyn Kyle

Exhibiting Artist

Inspired by personal events, collective mythology, and pop-culture, Sharon Shapiro’s paintings and collages portray opposing forces, subject matter both fantastic and real, utopian and dystopian. Her work has been featured in three issues (including cover) of New American Paintings. Shapiro has been a resident at Jentel, Ragdale, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Ucross, Hambidge Center and AIR SFI. She is a 2002 and 2018 recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship. She holds an MFA from the Maine College of Art and a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art. She currently shows her work with Garvey|Simon, NYC.

Instagram: @sharonshapiro

Bio courtesy of the artist.

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