Sharon Horvath | |
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Born | Cleveland, Ohio, United States | December 5, 1958
Education | Cooper Union (BFA), Tyler School of Art (MFA), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
Occupation(s) | Visual artist, educator |
Known for | Painting, mixed media |
Awards | Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2005), Rome Prize (1997), Guggenheim Fellowship (1992) |
Sharon Horvath (born 1958) is an American visual artist and educator. She teaches at State University of New York at Purchase. Her artwork is mixed media and made with materials such as pigments, inks, and polymer.
Sharon Horvath was born on December 5, 1958, in Cleveland, Ohio. [1] [2]
She attended Cooper Union (BFA 1980) in New York City, and Tyler School of Art at Temple University (MFA 1985) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [3] In the summer of 1985, she attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. [2]
Horvath's artwork is generally made on canvas or mounted paper, and involved a mixture of materials such as pigments, inks, and polymer. [4] Her early art fluctuated between abstraction and figurative. [5] [6] Her later art is abstract, often colorful, and inspired by topographical maps. [7] [8]
Horvath teaches at State University of New York at Purchase (Purchase College) since 2006. [9] From 2011 to 2013, she was a department chair at Purchase College. She has also taught at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
She was awarded the Anonymous Was A Woman Award in 2005, [10] the Guggenheim Fellowship for fine arts in 1992, and a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts from 1985 to 1986. [11] [12] [13] She became a National Academician in 2015, awarded by the National Academy of Design in New York City. [14] She was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy in Rome in 1997. [15]
Her work is in museum collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, [16] the National Academy of Design, [17] and Utah Museum of Fine Arts.