Sharon Lawless received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA in 1974 and her MFA from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH in 1976. She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting and an NEA/SECCA Artists' Fellowship and grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Her work has been exhibited nationally throughout her over 40 year career including, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; Art in General, New York, NY; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Arena I, Santa Monica, CA and The Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA, among others. She lives and maintains her studio in New York, NY.
