Sharon Louden

Education

BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, Yale University

One-person exhibitions include

Morgan Lehman Gallery; Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN; Asheville Art Museum, NC; Beta Pictoria/Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL; Salina Art Center, KS; Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas; Burnet Gallery, Minneapolis

Group exhibitions include

Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul; Lehman College; Westbeth College; Boghossian Foundation, Brussels; Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London; Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI; Jersey City Museum, NJ

Collections include

Microsoft Corporation, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Delaware Art Museum, Saks Fifth Avenue, General Mills, National Gallery of Art, Panasonic, Whitney Museum of American Art, Yale University Art Gallery

Festivals and screenings include

Free Range Film Festival, NYC Downtown Short Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, San Francisco International Children’s Film Festival, Weatherspoon Art Museum

Publications include

The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life; Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists; Sculpture; ARTnews; The New York Times; Hyperallergic; Chautauquan Daily; Miami Herald; Knoxville News Sentinel; Art in America; Philadelphia Inquirer; Architectural Digest

Awards and honors include

Gold Kahuna Award, Honolulu International Film Festival; Bronze Palm Award, Mexico International Film Festival; Grant, Ford Foundation; Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts; Grant, Atlanta Arts Council. Residencies include: American Academy in Rome, Salina Art Center, Tamarind Institute