14 Facts About Sharon Lockhart

Sharon Lockhart was born on 1964 and is an American artist whose work considers social subjects primarily through motion film and still photography, often engaging with communities to create work as part of long-term projects.

Sharon Lockhart received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991 and her MFA from Art Center College of Design in 1993.

Sharon Lockhart has been a Radcliffe fellow, a Guggenheim fellow, and a Rockefeller fellow.

Sharon Lockhart was an associate professor at the University of Southern California's Roski School of Fine Arts, resigning from the school in August 2015 in response to the continued administrative turmoil at Roski to take a position at the California Institute of the Arts.

For Goshogaoka Girls Basketball Team, a series of 12 photographs, Lockhart turned to images of a girls' basketball team at a school in the Tokyo suburb of Goshogaoka, mimicking the style of the professional athlete's publicity still.

In 2003, Sharon Lockhart returned to Japan to create a series of works with local farmers.

In preparation for each photograph, Sharon Lockhart took Polaroids so that each of her subjects could have some say about the way he or she would be portrayed.

Sharon Lockhart asked the Los Angeles architecture firm Escher GuneWardena to design her series of Pine Flat exhibitions.

Sharon Lockhart discovered Eshkol's work as both a textile artist, dance composer, and movement notation pioneer on a research trip sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles's Tel Aviv-Los Angeles Partnership.

From this collaboration Sharon Lockhart created her film Rudzienko, which had its cinematic premiere at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival in 2017.

In 2016, Sharon Lockhart was selected to represent Poland at the 57th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, set to take place the following year.

Sharon Lockhart had solo exhibitions at international venues including Wiener Secession, Austria; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge; Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Zurich; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, and MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.

Sharon Lockhart's films have been included in the New York Film Festival, Vienna International Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival, where Lunch Break and Exit were selected in 2009.

Sharon Lockhart received artist-in-residence fellowships from the DAAD, Berlin, the Asian Cultural Council Grant, Ibaragi, Japan and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.