Sharon Horvath, Associate Professor, Purchase College, SUNY.
Horvath is represented by Lori Bookstein Fine Art in NewYork; Victoria
Munroe Fine Art in Boston; Gallery Joe in Philadelphia; andthe Drawing
Room Gallery in East Hampton, New York. She has receivednumerous grants,
awards, and fellowships, including a Certificate of Honorfrom Tyler
School of Art Alumni Association in 2007, the Anonymous Wasa Woman Grant
for painting in 2006 and the Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize forpainting from
theNational Academy Museum in New York City in 2004. In 2002she received
the Richard C. Von Hess Award for excellence as a teacherand mentor from
the University of the Arts. She received Pollock-KrasnerFoundation Grants
for painting in 1997 and in 1993. She was also awarded theJacob
H.Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize Fellowshipfor painting by
the American Academy in Rome for 1997-98. In 1995 she was aMarie Walsh
Sharpe Art Foundation space programresident. In 1994,Horvaths awards
included an NEA Regional Grant (Mid-Atlantic) andanElizabeth Foundation
Grant for painting. She received a Hassem, Speicher, Betts,and Symons
Purchase Award in 1999 and the Richard and Hilda RosenthalAward from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1993. In 1992,Horvath won a John
Simon Guggenheim MemorialFellowship for painting. During1986 and 1987 she
was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Horvath received her BFA from Cooper Union in New York Cityand her MFA
from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University inPhiladelphia and Temple
Abroad in Rome. In 1985 she was awarded a Skowhegan Schoolof Painting and
Sculpture Scholarship by the Tyler School of Art. Since1987, Horvath has
shown her paintings and drawings in solo exhibitions in NewYork,
Philadelphia, and Boston and internationally