Bio
Sharon Lacey is a painter currently based in London, England. She recently completed a postgraduate degree at the Institute of English Studies, University of London, where she studied painting techniques used in medieval manuscripts. Her research focused on the tinted drawing techniques used in the Tanner Apocalypse, a thirteenth century manuscript at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Other research interests include early craft treatises, paint technology, and the history of artists' studio practice and training.
Sharon is a native of Charleston, SC. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where she earned degrees in both Art and English. In 1995, she was accepted to study art and literature at Keble College, Oxford University. While there, she studied stone carving at Keble's Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She moved to New York in 1999 to pursue graduate work in painting. In May 2001, she completed her MFA degree under the instruction of Eric Fischl at the New York Academy of Art. Her art training has primarily focused on traditional techniques and materials, with particular emphasis on the human figure.
She has exhibited work throughout the US, including Washington, DC, New York, NY, Boston, MA, New Orleans, LA, Portland, OR, Omaha, NE, and Augusta, GA. In October 2008, she was invited to give a series of artist talks in the Yunnan and Sichuan regions of China and in Tibet with a group of North American artists as part of a cultural exchange team. In May 2010 she was a resident artist at Can Serrat, near Barcelona, Spain. From 2003-2010 she taught painting and drawing in the Studio Art department at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC.
Her work was recently exhibited in a group show at St. Bride Library on Fleet Street, London in Fall 2011. An upcoming solo exhibition of her paintings and drawings will be on view in May in Southeast London at Number 10, an alternative art space at 10 Bermondsey Street.
Sharon is a native of Charleston, SC. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where she earned degrees in both Art and English. In 1995, she was accepted to study art and literature at Keble College, Oxford University. While there, she studied stone carving at Keble's Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She moved to New York in 1999 to pursue graduate work in painting. In May 2001, she completed her MFA degree under the instruction of Eric Fischl at the New York Academy of Art. Her art training has primarily focused on traditional techniques and materials, with particular emphasis on the human figure.
She has exhibited work throughout the US, including Washington, DC, New York, NY, Boston, MA, New Orleans, LA, Portland, OR, Omaha, NE, and Augusta, GA. In October 2008, she was invited to give a series of artist talks in the Yunnan and Sichuan regions of China and in Tibet with a group of North American artists as part of a cultural exchange team. In May 2010 she was a resident artist at Can Serrat, near Barcelona, Spain. From 2003-2010 she taught painting and drawing in the Studio Art department at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC.
Her work was recently exhibited in a group show at St. Bride Library on Fleet Street, London in Fall 2011. An upcoming solo exhibition of her paintings and drawings will be on view in May in Southeast London at Number 10, an alternative art space at 10 Bermondsey Street.
