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EDUCATION
1987 M.F.A. Queens College, CUNY, Flushing, New York
1986 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1984 The New York Studio School, New York, New York
1981 M.A., New York University, New York, New York
1977 B.F.A. University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut
RESIDENCIES
1989 Woodcut Printmaking Apprenticeship, Sydney, Australia
1988 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
COLLECTIONS
The Artery Collection
INOVA Art collection, Inova Schar Cancer Institute
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Walk Mountables Exhibition
The DC Art Center, Washington D.C.
2023 Carte Blanche Summer Exhibition
Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
2023 "Sense of Place" by Sharon Fishel, Sean Dudley, and David Sturtevant
Fred Schnider Gallery of Art, Arlington, VA
2021 2021 Athenaeum Open
ART OPTIMISM, Alexandria, VA
2021 New York Studio School Alumni Show
2021 2021 Alchemical Vessels exhibition
Joan Hisaoka Arts Gallery, Smith Center, Washington, DC
2020 List of Six
Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
2020 May Flowers
Jo Fleming Contemporary Art, Annapolis, MD
2019 Notes Of Color, Presented by the Washington Sculptors Group
The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
Curated by Mollie Berger Salah (Assistant Curator NGA)
2019 2019 Alchemical Vessels exhibition
Joan Hisaoka Arts Gallery, Smith Center, Washington, DC
2019 Moving Walls Exhibition,
Atlas Performing Arts Center, Washington DC
2018 Selections From The Artery Collection
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2018 In A Fertile World, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD
Curated by Spencer Dormitzer
2017 One House Project
Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC
2016 Green Mind
Chroma Projects Art Lab
Charlottesville, Virginia
2016 Storytelling/Global Narratives
Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
Margaret and Joseph Fisher Art Gallery, NOVA, Alexandria, VA
2012 DCAC Signals: Art from A New Washington School
DCAC Gallery, Washington DC
2012 Something and Nothing- Filling The Void
McLean Project For The Arts, McLean, Virginia
Curated by Jim Mahoney,
2010 Catalyst: 35 Years of Washington Project For The Arts
Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC
2009 Small Worlds Sharon Fishel, Nancy Sausser
Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
2007 Washington Women, Osuna Gallery, Bethesda, MD
2003 NYSS Alumni Exhibit, New York Studio School, NYC
2001 Summer Solstice, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
2001 Adjunct! Watkins Gallery, The American University, Washington, DC
2001 Thought As Place, Signal 66, Washington, DC
Curated by Kurt Goodwin
2000 Time As Place,The Catholic University, Washington DC
Curated by Kurt Goodwin
1999 Our Good Earth, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
The Heraldry Show, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
Curated by JW Mahoney
1998 Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA
Strictly PaintingII, Emerson Gallery, McLean Project For The Arts,
McLean, VA Curated by W.C.Richardson and Annie Gawlack
WPA Auction, Corcoran Gallery Of Art, Washington DC
ArtScape‘98, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Curated by Symmes Gardner.
1997 Intrinsic Nature, Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, DC
Arlington Arts Center Auction,Arlington, VA
1996 Nature Matters Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
Curated by Percy North
WPA Auction Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Sublime Landscape George Mason University, Annandale, VA
Bansei Ikkei Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1995 Human / Nature The Pennsylvania School of Art
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Strictly Painting Emerson Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts
McLean, VA. Curated by Ashley Kistler
Faculty Exhibition Watkins Gallery, American University
Washington, DC
Three Visions 20th Anniversary Art Auction, Washington Project for the
Washington, DC
Intrinsic Nature Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland
Survey: 1995 Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Curated by John Figura
1994 Angels in August Anton Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1994 Gallery Artists Anton Gallery, Washington, D.C.
A New Nature Emerson Gallery, McLean Project for the Arts
McLean, Virginia Curated by J.W. Mahoney
1993 Faculty Exhibition Watkins Gallery, American University, Washington, D.C.
Nature Morte: A Current View The New York Studio School
New York, New York
1992 Trans Modern St. John’s College, St. Cloud, Minnesota
Curated by J.W. Mahoney
Faculty Exhibition Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland
1992 Gallery Artists Anton Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1991 Evocative Abstraction Anton Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Enclosure The Annex, Washington, D.C.
Museum as Muse Greater Reston Art Center, Reston, Virginia
16th Annual Auction Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
The Painterly Image Anton Gallery, Washington, D.C
Organic Abstraction, Salve Regina University, RI
Curated by Sarah Tanguy
1990 Recollection Anton Gallery, Washington DC
James McLaughlin Memorial Staff Show The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
1989 Invitational Exhibition Sylvester Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1988 Invitational Exhibition Bowery Gallery, NYC
In The Air Pleiades Gallery, NYC
Curated by Stephen Westfall
1986 Caumsette Painters Bank Street College Gallery, NYC
1984 The New York Studio School, NYC
1981 The Small Works Show 80 Washington Square East Galleries
NYC Curated by Patterson Sims
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Sharon Fishel Paintings, National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD
2023 Earth Witness: A Collection of Recent Paintings By Artist Sharon Fishel, Gallery 115, Y Arts Center, Fredrick, MD
2014 Visual Arts Center, TCC at Olde Town, Portsmouth, VA
2013 Cosmos Club, Washington, DC
2009 The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
2005 District Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2004 The McLean Project For The Arts, McLean, VA
2002 District Fine Arts, Washington, DC
2001 The Schoolhouse, Croton Falls, NY
2000 The McLean Project For the Arts, Mclean, VA
1999 District Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1996 Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1993 Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV
1991 Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1986 Queens College, CUNY, Flushing NY
1980 Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NYC
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018 Mark Jenkins, In the Galleries: 21 artists explore and expand notions of recovery, Washington Post (Photograph),
October 2018
2018 Mark Jenkins, In the Galleries: “Elixir” exhibition at Healing Arts Gallery includes diagnoses of current events,
Washington Post, October 2018 (Photograph)
2018 Exhibition Catalogue, Selections From The Artery Collection, September - December, 2018
2018 Brentwood Arts Exchange, September through June Brochure (Cover Photograph)
2013 Lenore Miller, Statement in brochure, Cosmos Club, Washington, DC
2008 J.W, Mahoney, To a Different Drummer: Report from Washington, DC, Art in America, May 2008
2004 Jessica Dawson, Two Natures, The Washington Post, May 13, 2004
2004 Janice Goodman, Around Town, PBS
2001 Micheal O’Sullivan, The Collectors, The Washington Post Magazine, October 14
1999 Ferdinand Protzman It All Adds Up The Washington Post, (Photograph), April
1997 Linda Johnson Intrinsic Nature Articulate, November-December
1997 Percy North Sharon Fishel –Paintings Washington Review, December - January
1996 Corcoran Museum of Art Newsletter Night and Day, (Photograph) December
1996 J.W. Mahoney Sharon Fishel: Paintings Exhibition Catalog Anton Gallery
1995 Ashley Kistler Strictly Painting McLean Project for the Arts Exhibition catalog
Mary McCoy Power Plants The Washington Post, April
1994 J.W. Mahoney A New Nature Emerson Gallery,McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, Virginia. Exhibition Catalog.
1992 Lee Fleming Where the Art Is, Washingtonian Magazine, May
1991 Alice Thorson Transcend-dance The City Paper, September
1991 Valerie Steiker Bolduan / Fishel at Anton The New Art Examiner, May
Howard Risatti Washington, D.C., Artforum, April
Alice Thorson Ruth Bolduan and Sharon Fishel The City Paper, January
Lenore Miller Sharon Fishel at Anton The Washington Review March - April
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1995-present ArtReach Director, ArtReach Program, The McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, Virginia
2000- 2004 Instructor of Painting , Corcoran College of Art, Washington, D.C.
1992-2003 Adjunct Associate Professor Painting and Drawing American University, Washington D.C.
Juror, Glassman Award
1995 Instructor of Painting, The Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York
1991-1993 Instructor of Drawing, Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland
1990-1993 Instructor of Art Appreciation Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland
1990 Guest Lecturer Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia
1989-1990 Lecturer and Museum Assistant The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
1978-1983 Principle Instructor, Education Department, Whitney Museum of American Art, Art-Reach Program
Developed an educational outreach program for New York City public and private school students.
PUBLICATIONS/AWARDS
2014 ArtReach School Tours Connect Art and Science McLean Connection, April 16-22
2012 Juror’s Award, Something and Nothing - Filling the Void, McLean Project For The Arts
1992 Credit Where Credit is Due, Editorial, Washington Post, July 18
1990 Allusions: Selected Abstract Paintings The Washington Review, February/March
1979 A Gallery Guide for Young People to Tradition and Modernism in American Art -
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art
Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 70’s, A Gallery Guide for Young People, Whitney Museum of American Art
I Love Mystery: The Sculpture of H.C. Westermann, Whitney Museum of American Art