Born in Houston, Texas.
EDUCATION:
1981
Master of Fine Arts - Painting, University of Houston
1970
B.S. - Art Education, University of Houston
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
2001
Texas Artist of the Year, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
2000
2000 Houston Millennium Makers Award, Houston, Texas
1997
Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Arts Council, Houston, Texas
1993
Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in Sculpture
Texas Art Celebration '93, Assistance League of Houston, Houston, Texas; Second Place, Juried by David Ross
1994
Residency Grant, Museum of Northern Territories, Darwin, Australia
1991
Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Arts Council, Houston, Texas.
1988
Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; First Place, Juried by Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Richard Koshalek, and Alison de Lima Greene
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2001
Body and Spirit: The Imagist Art of Sharon Kopriva, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
Texas Artist of the Year Award, The Art League of Houston, Texas
2000
Sharon Kopriva: Work 1986-1998, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Sharon Kopriva, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas
1999
Blind Faith, McAllen International Museum, McAllen, Texas
1998
Birds of Pray, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
1997
From Dust Thou Art, Dutch Phillips Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Contemporary Art Month - Sharon Kopriva Drawings and Sculpture, Parchman Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1996
Vessels and Reliquaries, Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
Reconciliations, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
Rituals, MSC Visual Arts Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
1994
New Constructions and Paintings, Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, Louisianna
1993
LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
1992
Conflicting Rituals, Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, Texas
1991
Rite of Passage, The Art Center, Waco, Texas
Penances, The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
1989
Sharon Kopriva, Sculpture and Paintings, J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas
1986
Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2000
Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
Crossing State Lines, Texas Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1997
Mixed Mediums: Cycles of the Spiritual, Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Classically Inspired, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
1996
American Kaleidoscope - Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art, National Museum of American Art, The Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
Voices, two person exhibition, J.J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, California
The Fine Art of Craft and Sculpture, Horwitch/LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Hot Saturdays, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, Texas
32 Texas Artists, University of Texas - Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas
Material and Spirit, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
1995
Elvis + Marilyn = 2 X Immortal, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Texas: Myths and Reality, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Setting the Stage: A Contemporary View of the West, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis
Bridge: Works and Images from Houston/Sarajevo, Davis/McClain - Pennzoil Building, Houston, Texas
Texas Art for Russia, Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Tomsk, St. Petersburg, Rostovondon, Russia
Figuration, Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami, Florida
Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho Valley, Idaho
1993
Texas Art Celebration '93, Assistance League of Houston, Houston, Texas; Second Place, Juried by David Ross
Hope-Houston Exchange Exhibition, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas; Faith and Charity Gallery, Hope, Idaho; Curated by Edward and Nancy Kienholz
Texas Contemporary Acquisitions of the 90's, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Talleres en Fronteras: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art from South Texas and Baja California, Corpus Christi, Mexicali, El Paso, and Tijuana
Fur, Fins, Feathers and More, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas
Garden of Eden, Lanning Gallery, Houston, Texas
Personal Attachments, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston
1992
Dreams and Shields, Salt Lake City Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Texas Dialogues, Bridge Center, El Paso, Texas
Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Lanning Gallery, Houston, Texas
Daily Bread, C.G. Jung Center, Houston, Texas
1990
A Sacred Presence, Simms Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisianna
Ritual and Myth, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacodoches, Texas
1989
A Century of Texas Sculpture, The Huntington Museum, Austin, Texas
Another Reality, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texas; Little Rock, Arkansas; McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, New York
1988
Houston Area Exhibition, First Place, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; First Place, Juried by Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Richard Koshalek, and Alison de Lima Greene
1988 Texas Exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1987
Kindred Spirits, Cydney Payton Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Estes and Others, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, New York
1986
Memento Mori, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico, Curated by Richard Flood
Empowered Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, New York
Texas Invitational, Fort Worth Art Festival, Fort Worth, Texas, Honorable Mention
1985
Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; P.S. 1, New York, New York; Oklahoma Fine Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Curated by Barbara Rose and Susie Kalil
