EXHIBITIONS
2011 Sharon Birzer and Ellen Hochberg, New Works, Candyland, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 Observatio, Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA
A Celebration of the Natural World, Burke Museum, Seattle, WA
Steiner Workshop Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan
Botanical Art Exhibition, Center for Urban Horticulture, Seattle WA
10, Seattle Print Arts Anniversary Exhibition, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Seattle Print Arts Salon Invitational, Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 'Tis of Thee, Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA
Touch, Columbia City Gallery, Saettle, WA
Sea Shift, G Gallery, Houston, TX
Inaugural Invitational Print Exhibition at Mighty Tieton, Tieton, WA
PONCHO Invitational Fine Art Exhibition, Western Bridge, Seattle WA
Art Port Townsend, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
2008 Zero, Columbia City Gallery’s Third Annual Jured Exhibit, Seattle, WA
Over the Edge, Collective Works at Up Front Art, Issaquah, WA
PRINT! Seattle Print Arts 3rd Biennial Juried Exhibition, Anne Focke Gallery,
Seattle City Hall, WA
Art Revealed, City of Lynnwood Arts Commission Exhibit, Lynnwood Convention Center, WA
2007 PRINT! Seattle Print Arts 3rd Biennial Juried Exhibition, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA
PRINT! Seattle Print Arts 3rd Biennial Juried Exhibition, Kittredge Gallery,
University of Puget S Sound,Tacoma, WA Juror, Sarah Suzuki
Expressions Northwest, Northwind Art Center, Port Townsend, WA
Fifth Annual Juried Local Art Exhibition, The Gallery at Tacoma Community College, Tacoma, WA
2006 Imprimo, Seattle Print Arts Members, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA Juror, James Elaine
Inherent Nature, Cornish College Gallery, Seattle, WA
Printmaking Currents 2006, Pacific Northwest Arts College, Portland, OR Juror, Sam Davidson
2006 NW Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 Auburn Art Commission, City Hall Arts Gallery
Dia de los Muertos, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
Art Port Townsend, Northwind Art Center, Port Townsend, WA
2004 Art of the Garden, Arts Council of Snohomish County, Everett, WA
Art Port Townsend, Northwind Art Center, Port Townsend, WA
2002 Six Artists: Click Here, Blue Heron Art Center, Vashon, WA
2001 Phinney Center Gallery Fine Arts Competition, Phinney Center Gallery, Seattle, WA
Art Port Townsend, Point Hudson Pavilion, Port Townsend, WA
1995 Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Domestic Bliss, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
1993 Snohomish County Arts Commission Exhibition, Snohomish County Courthouse, Everett, WA
1990 Cornish Show at Kirkland Center for the Arts, Kirkland, WA
COCA Juried Northwest Annual 1990, Seattle, WA
1989 COCA Juried Northwest Annual 1989, Seattle, WA
jurors: Leon Golub and Nancy Spero
1988 Fremont Fine Arts Gallery Juried Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Cornish Print Show, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Phinney Center Juried Exhibition, Seattle, WA
EDUCATION
2010 Scientific Illustration Certificate, University of Washington
1995 MFA, University of Washington
1990 BFA, Cum Laude, Cornish College of the Arts
AWARDS & HONORS
2001 Award at Art Port Townsend, Point Hudson Pavilion, Port Townsend, WA, juror: Peggy Weiss
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Gilda’s Club, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA
Snohomish County 1% Arts Program, Everett, WA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Print Arts Northwest, Printmaking Currents 2006, at 7.
Janice Randall, Digital Artists in Blue Heron Show, Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, July 31, 2002, at 8.
Mary G. L. Shackelford, 6 Artists: click here, Vashon Allied Arts Island View, July/Aug., 2002, at 3.
Mary G. L. Shackelford, Sharon Birzer, Vashon Allied Arts Island View, October, 2001, at 1.
Elizabeth Bryant, UW & Cornish: An Unfair Comparison, Reflex, July/August, 1990, at 24.
PROFESSIONAL & RELATED EXPERIENCE
2010 Current member of SHIFT Collaborative Studio, a Seattle artist-run exhibition space in the Tashiro Kaplan Arts Complex
2005 Artist Trust EDGE Program
2003 Printmaking with Kathleen Rabel and Stephen Hazel
1990 Studio Assistant for Nori Sato
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© Sharon Birzer 2012