SHARON KIVLAND

1955 Born in Germany, American citizen

Lives and works in England and France

 

M.A. in History of Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London

PhD in History of Art, University of Reading

 

Research Associate of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, London

Reader in Fine Art, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University / England

Editor in chief of “Transmission: Speaking and Listening” Site Gallery, Sheffield / England

Editor of “The Rules of Engagement“ Artworks, London

Guest-Editor, with Jaspar Joseph-Lester of “Art and Text“, theory section, www.art-omma.org


AWARDS AND GRANTS

The British Council

Greater London Arts award

Henry Moore Foundation, exhibition award

Tower Hamlets Artists award

The Elephant Trust, publication award

The British School at Rome, award in Sculpture

Greater London Arts award

Canada Counsil research award

The British Council

The Harmstone Bequest, Sheffield City Council

The British Council

The British Council

The British Council, travel grant

The British Council, Paris, exhibition grant

Arts and Humanities Research Board, The British Academy

London Arts Board, photography panel

The British Council, Canada, travel grant

The British Council, Paris, exhibition grant

Conseil Géneral de Côtes d'Armor

D.R.A.C. de Bretagne


RESIDENCIES

Safeway Supermarket, Canterbury / England

Chipping Norton School, Oxfordshire / England

Bonner School, London, organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery

European Fellow, Exeter College of Art, Exeter / England

and the Academy of Fine Art Arts, Den Haag / The Netherlands

University of Windsor, Ontario / Canada

Parliament Hill School, organized by the Serpentine Gallery, London

Teaching Residency, Ontario College of Art, Toronto / Canada

Cité des Arts Internationale, Paris

Second International Artists Village, Sri Lanka


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

“Ma Nana et autres filles“ Atelier de Marcel Dinahet, Rennes / France

“Mes Fils“ DomoBaal Contemporary Art, London

“La forme-valeur“ Galerie de Cloître, ERBAR, Rennes / France

“Cela aura déjà eu lieu“ Centre d’Art Contemporain, Morsang-sur-Orge / France

“L'autre Corps" Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf / Germany

"Le Bonheur des Femmes" Centre Culturel, Ploufragan / France

“Le Bonheur des Femmes“ Hôtel de Ville, Guingamp / France

"Le Bonheur des Femmes" Galeria La Centrale, Montreal / Canada;

Le Triangle, Rennes / France

"Le Bonheur des Femmes" Portfolio, Edinburgh,

Wigmore Fine Art, London

"La Valeur d'Échange" Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rueil-Malmaison / France

"The School for Lovers" Site Gallery, Sheffield;

"Rapport Sexuel" Installation of vidio at Gender and Sexuation Conference,

organized by the European School of Psychoanalysis, Brunei Gallery,

University of London

"Des femmes et de la propriété" Site Départementale de Dourven, Bretagne,

"Je Sais Bien Mais Quand Même" Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims / France

"Letters of the Blind" Gallery 101, Ottawa / Canada

"En Morceaux" Raum für Neue Kunst, Zürich / Switzerland

"Cent Femmes" Gallery JNJ, Prague / Czech Republic

"J'appelle un Chat un Chat" The Library, Bookworks, London;

YYZ, Toronto / Canada

"Mais Quand Meme" Stadtausstellungshalle von Hawerkampf, Münster /

"Aphonia" CAPC, St. Fons / France

"Je Sais Bien" Hales Gallery, London

"Jeu d'Esprit" Apollohuis, Eindhoven / The Netherlands

"A Bout de Souffle" Dazibao, Montreal / Canada

"Coup de Foudre" Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine / France

"L'Attente...l'Oubli" New Loom House, London

"L'Une sans l'Autre" Les Ateliers Nadar, Marseille / France

"Chimera" Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth / England

"The Fire of Tongues" Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

"The Blind Daughter" The Showroom, London

"Je me Souviens" Lebel Gallery, Windsor / Canada

"Crossing with Silver" Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

"In Place of the Heart" Athens Biennale of Photography

"Purgo et Ornat" Academy of Fine Art, Den Haag / Netherlands

"The Conversion of Pleasure into Sickness" Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln

"Houses and Paths of Dreams" Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

"A Trouble Shared" Riverside Studios, London

"The Conversion of Pleasure into Sickness" Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff

"Washing Lines" Mile End Automatic Laundry, London

"Tired and Thirsty" Photogalerienet, Oslo / Norway

"The vessel/held" Spitalfields Health Centre,

organized by Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

"Salon de Jeunes Artistes" Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

AIR Gallery, London

and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge / England

commissioned installation, catalogue published by Filigrane Éditions

Bonington Gallery, Nottingham (Touring exhibition)

"Mes Folies" Galerie Behemot, Prague / Czech Republic

"Mes Tendresses" Gallery TPW, Toronto / Canada

and Galerie VU, Quebec City / Canada

"Mes Péripatéticiennes" The Economist Building, Contemporary Arts

Society Projects, London

"A View from a Distance" Harewood House, Leeds / England


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

“Diderot“ Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London

“Sommergäste“ Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf / Germany

“Erratum“ SYMPRA, Stuttgart / Germany

“Arcadia id est: artist‘ books, nature and the landscape“

“Nature and Nation“ Hastings Museum and Art Gallery

“Flair“ Bartlet School of Architecture, University College, London

"A Reader" (with Lucy Harrison and Nina Papaconstantinou)

DomoBaal Contemporary Art, London

“Borders and Boundaries“ The Meadow Gallery, Burford / England

“Twenty-four hours“ The International 3 (aka The Annual Programme), Manchester

"Centième" editions Filigranes, Salon Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris

"Loving at Home II" EdviksKonst och Kultur, Stockholm / Sweden

"Jeux d'Amour" curated by Hybrid, Battersea Arts Centre

"Loving at Home" Centre for Freudian Research and Analysis, London

"Flop" The French Institute, Edinburgh

"The Equinox" Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth

"Alliance Française" Lodz / Poland

"Passion" Gasworks, London

"Forest" The Bull and Last, London

"Body and Photography" The Prague House of Photography,

curated by Martina Pachmanova

"Evil: Critical Interventions" John Hansard Gallery, Southampton / England

"Cocktail" Raum für neue Kunst, Zürich / Switzerland

"Group Show" Rack Gallery, London

"Fascinum" (with Shelagh Wakely and Michelle Naismith) Art House, London

"Gallery artists" Raum für neue Kunst, Zürich / Switzerland

"DuSoMaclalanKiPonBruHu" CAPC, St. Fons / France

"Dialect" The Anglican Church" Via del Babuino, Rome

"Mauvais Genre" Mois de la Photo, Reims / France;

CAPC Saint-Dizier / France

"Last Out, Lights Out" Langsett School, Sheffield / England

"Words" Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth / England

"Desiring Practices" RIBA, London

"In Vino Veritas" The British School at Tome

"Speculation" Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Brest / France,

curated by Jean-Marc Huitorel

"Quelles Hysteries?" Galerie du Cloître, Rennes / France,

"Britart" Raum für Neue Kunst, Zürich / Switzerland

"En Scène" W139, Amsterdam

"Passage" Clove Two, London

"Acer Pseudoplatanus" Sydenham Nature Reserve, curated by Gloria Carlos

"Hermit" International symposium, Plasy / Czech Republic

"Public / Private: Secrets Must Circulate" The French Institute, Edinburgh,

Fotofeis, curated by Alain Reinaudo

"Britart" Galerie Bruno Bücher, Poitiers / France

Galerie Apunto, Amsterdam

"Summer Lightning" Dreadnought Seaman's Hospital, Greenwich, London,

curated by Wise/Taylor Partnership

"Rose" Rose Court, London, curated by Wise/Taylor Partnership

"Annunciation" St. George's Church, Bloomsbury / England

"Après la Photographie de Voyage" Dazibao, Montreal / Canada

"Rome Scholars 1980 - 90" The Royal College of Art, London

"Ora ti faccio vedere" Artists at the British School of Rome

"Ergasterion" "Anima Mundi" (travelling exhibition), organized by

the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography

"Anima Mundi" Stills Gallery, Edinburgh

Zelda Cheatle Gallery London

"Clayworks" Manchester City Art Gallery

"The Subversive Stitch" Cornerhouse, Manchester

"The State of the Nation" Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry / England

"TSWA 3 D" Dartmoor and other sites

"Painting Photography Painting" Pomeroy Gallery, London

"Whitechapel Open" Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

"Third Generation: Women Sculptors Today" Canterbury Arts Festival

"New British Sculpture" AIR Gallery, London

"Whitechapel Open" Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

"Objects as Art" Plymouth Arts Centre / England

"No Place like Home" Cornerhouse, Manchester / England

"Pink for a Girl, Blue for a Boy" Dean Clough, Halifax / England

"Next Tomorrow" Kettle's Yard, Cambridge / England

"Sculptors at Work" Canterbury Arts Festival

"Revisions" Cambridge Darkroom; Watershed, Bristol;

John Hansard Gallery, Southampton / England

"Rituals" Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal / England

"Fresh Air" St. Paul's Gallery, Leeds / England

"Five Women" Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff / England

"Multiples" Photographer's Gallery, London

"Sequences" Cambridge Darkroom

"Dog Works" Interim Art, London

"Postcard Views" Chapter Arts Center, Cardiff / England

"Summer Show" Serpentine Gallery, London

"Houses and Homes" Arnolfini, Bristol / England

"Spatialists" ffotogallery, Cardiff / England

The Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London

"Photography as Medium" The British Council

Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

"Whitechapel Open" Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

Elise Meyer Gallery, New York

Anthony Stokes, London

"New Contemporaries" Acme Gallery, London

curated by Christian Gattinoni

"Hermit" International symposium, Plasy / Czech Republic

"Les Femmes, Autremont" Chateau du Beaumanoir, Quintin / France

"Wellspring" Bath Arts Festival,

curated by Antonia Payne and Angela Kingston

and Wigmore Fine Art, London

"The Betrayal of the Image" Casino de Luxembourg

Trace Gallery, Dorset / England

“Focusedlistening“ Contact, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes / France


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Arts Council of Great Britain

The British Council

The Contemporary Arts Society

The Creasey Collection

London Borough of Camden

The Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln

Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge