Sharon Kopriva (American, born )

Timeline

1948
Born: Houston, TX
1970
B. S. – Art Education, University of Houston
1981
Master of Fine Arts, University of Houston
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
1990
Landscapes, Outdoor Installation Grant Diverse Works, Houston, Texas
1991
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
1997
Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Arts Council, Houston, Texas
2001
Texas Artist of the Year, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas*
2005
Texas State Three-Dimensional Artist, Texas Commission on the Arts, Austin
Currently resides in Houston, TX

Exhibitions

2005
PAPER, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Ulterior Motifs No 8, Buddy Holly Museum, Lubbock, Texas
Gallery Artists, Barbara Davis, Houston, Texas
2004
The Inside of Night, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas –solo
Mounds and Monuments, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas -solo
Texas Vision, The Barrett Collection, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Houston Works, Bacardi Museum of Art, Santiago, Cuba
Homage to Zappa, Monks Museum, Salzwedel, Germany
Ulterior Motifs No. 7, Museum of Art and Music, New Braunfels, Texas
Ulterior Motifs No. 7, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas
2003
Ambos Mundos, Humboldt Museum, Havana, Cuba
Zappa Remembered, Leipzig Opera House, Leipzig, Germany
The Figure as Object, Southern Highland Museum, Ashville, North Carolina
Small, Hooks Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texas
2002
Der Kreuzweg Stations of the Cross, Salzwedel, Germany-solo
Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana -solo
Houston works, Artco Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
2001
Body and Spirit: The Imagist Art of Sharon Kopriva, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas*-solo
Texas Artist of the Year, Art League of Houston, Texas -solo
2000
Sharon Kopriva: Work 1986-1998, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas* -solo
University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas -solo
Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
1999
Blind Faith, McAllen International Museum, McAllen, Texas -solo
Thresholds, Concordia University, Austin, Texas
1998
Birds of Pray, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas-solo
The Not-Quite Doll Show, O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
1997
From Dust Thou Art, Dutch Phillips Gallery, Dallas, Texas –solo
Contemporary Art Month – Sharon Kopriva Drawings and Sculpture, Parchman Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, Texas -solo
Mixed Mediums: Cycles of the Spiritual, Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, D. C.
Classically Inspired, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
Day of the Dead Exhibition, Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas