BIOGRAPHY
BORN 1979, UK. Lives in Glasgow
EDUCATION
2004 MFA, New York Academy of Art, USA
2001 BFA, Glasgow School of Art, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Rural Rides, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow, UK
Tit and Cock, The Mandrake Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Herstory Portrait: A Decade On, Royal Glasgow Institute, UK
2019 Barberium, Cassart Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Herstory Portrait, Leeds College of Art, Leeds, UK
2017 Curators Choice, Leeds College of Art, Leeds, UK
2015 Mary Barbour: Centenary of Rent Restriction Act, Trongate 103, Glasgow, UK
Herstory Portrait, Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2012 Herstory Portrait (in tandem with Equals), Paisley Museum, Paisley, UK
2011 Herstory Portrait, Glasgow Trades Hall, Glasgow, UK
2009 Tales of Shiney-Shiney, The North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford, UK
First Class, The Grand, Grand St, Brooklyn, NYC, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 From the Big Splash to the Last Splash, Terrace Gallery, London, UK
2022 SSA 130 Years Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
Paint Talk, Glasgow, (Sarah Grant, Ben Risk, Sharon Thomas, Michael Antkowiak, Michael Clarence, Olivia Irvine, Daisy Richardson and Sam Douglas), Trongate 103, Glasgow, UK
2021 Marks Left Behind: NYAA Recollections, Connections and Impact of 9/11, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
Pretty Ugly, Saltspace, Glasgow, UK
Summer Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
2020 Not Going Back to Normal, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (online exhibition)
Loopin, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Homeworks, Spilt Milk, Edinburgh, UK (online exhibition and publication)
Embody Without Burden, Royal Glasgow Institute, Glasgow, UK
Summer Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA (online exhibition)
2019 Feminist Public Sculpture, Leeds College of Art, UK
2016 Beyond Epilepsy, Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow, UK
2015 20/20, Trongate 103, Glasgow, UK
Vokse-Vaerk: Museum Collection Of The Last 20 Years, Museet For Religios Kunst, Lemvig, Denmark
2014 Trongate Collective, Trongate 103, Glasgow, UK
2013 21 Revolutions, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2012 21 Revolutions, CCA, Glasgow, UK
Summer Exhibition, Allegra Laviola, New York, NY, USA
2011 Sharon Thomas/Giacinto Occhionero/Scott Grodesky, (e) merge, Washington, DC, USA
9/11: A New York Dectology, Project Room, Glasgow, UK
Loop, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
2010 Preview to a site (Art Athina 2010), Solonos 42, Athens, Greece
Sara Jessie Kane, Sharon Thomas, Edwina Ashton, Teverina Fine Art, Cortona, Italy
Artists for Athens Pride, Breeder Gallery, Athens, Greece
2009 Mother/mother, Air Gallery, New York, USA
Re-Birth, Cherry Pit Gallery, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Sublime to the Ridiculous, Plaka, Athens, Greece
183rd Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh, UK
2008 The Mundane Shell: Glasgow International, (two-person show with Laurence Figgis),
Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, UK
2006 Risky Business, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Overlap 3, The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
Salon 2006, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, USA
Britishness (Another Product), British Art Show 6, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
2005 Theme of the Unseen, Times Square Gallery, New York, USA
Visual Aids: Postcards from the Edge, Roger Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Underground, Creek and the Cave Gallery, Long Island City, Queens, New York, USA
2004 Reality Check, Spike Gallery, New York, USA
2002 Independent Space, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Young Scottish Painters, Phillip’s Auctioneers, Edinburgh, UK
Winter Show, Philips Contemporary Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2001 New Generation Scotland, Compass Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Snatch, Vic Bar, Glasgow, UK
ART FAIRS
2005 Art Chicago, Butler Field, Chicago, IL, USA. (Represented by Jack the Pelican Presents)
Flash Art Fair, Una Hotel Tocq, Milano, Italy. (Represented by Jack the Pelican Presents)
2002 Affordable Art Fair, New York, Pier 92, New York, NYC, USA.
Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, NYC, New York, USA
FILM PROJECTS
2019 Zone Out, Associate Producer/Story Consultant, (Director: Linda Campbell), Glasgow, UK
SCHOLARSHIPS/AWARDS
2019 1st Prize winner: Film: Zone Card, International Epilepsy Day, Dublin, Ireland
2009 Guthrie Award, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2008 Glasgow Visual Artists Grant Scheme, Glasgow, UK
2003 International Council Travel Scholarship, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
2002 Sainsbury Scholarship, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
2001 Villore Scholarship, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
Jock Macfie Prize, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
2000 Hart Bursary, Glasgow School of Art, Glashow, UK
RESIDENCIES
2005 Sainsbury Scholarship in Painting and Sculpture, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Saffron Live with Sharon Thomas, 11 March 2022, Sunny Govan Radio https://www.mixcloud.com/SunnyG103/saffron-11th-march-2022/
2018 Sharon Thomas: Mary Barbour Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Barbour
Sharon Thomas: Mary Barbour, Artuk.org https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/mary-barbour-monument-309255
2016 Borderland of Epilepsy: Online blog collaboration and installation exhibition, CCA, Glasgow, UK https://borderlandofepilepsy.com/
Flow Magazine, Issue 17, p.8 http://www.gsa.ac.uk/media/1148620/flow_issue_17final.pdf
2015 Janice Forsyth Show, BBC Radio Scotland, Mary Barbour interview with Edie Stark, Nov 2015 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06ns0cc
2014 Mansfield, S., A Perfect Birthday, The Scotsman Weekend Life Magazine, 2015. p16-17
https://sharonthomas.co.uk/mansfield-s-2015-a-perfect-birthday-the-scotsman-weekend-life-magazine-p16-17-8-3-2015/
2013 Monument to Mary Barbour, Newsnight Scotland: Interview with BBC Laura Maxwell, May 2013
2012 Artist Sharon Thomas on documenting the life of Mary Barbour, BBC Radio Scotland Morning Show interview, 8 March 2012 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-17304239
International Women's Day celebrates the life of Mary Barbour (article), 9 March 2012, BBC Scotland https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17304237
McMeekin, E. New Artwork to celebrate the life of Govan Heroine, The Herald Scotland, March 2012
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13049820.New_artwork_to_celebrate_the_life_of_Govan_heroine/
Kotze, T. Glasgow Women’s Library hosts group exhibitions 21 Revolutions, The List, 7 September 2012
https://www.list.co.uk/article/45243-glasgow-womens-library-hosts-group-exhibition-21-revolutions/
Morag. Equals and Herstory Portrait: Andrea Kusel and Sharon Thomas in conversation, 13 September 2012
https://womenslibrary.org.uk/2012/09/13/equals-and-herstory-portrait-andrea-kusel-and-sharon-thomas-in-conversation/
Coll, M. Work of art is tribute to Rent Strike heroine, Southside Press and Govan Press, April 12, 2012, p10
2010 Athens Voice. Artists for Athen’s Pride, Feb 2010, p.58 https://www.athensvoice.gr/sites/default/files/issue/2010/01/26/av_287.pdf
Rice, G. Preface: The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, 2010 https://sharonthomas.co.uk/the-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-woman/
Nevola, F. Sharon Thomas: Herstory in Context, 2010 https://sharonthomas.co.uk/sharon-thomas-herstory-in-context/
Patrick, A. Telling the Herstories: a Perspective on Glasgow, Gender and the Marking of Women’ Histories, 2010
https://sharonthomas.co.uk/telling-the-herstories-a-perspective-on-glasgow-gender-and-the-marking-of-womens-histories/
2009 Peacocke, H. Sharon Thomas at The North Wall, Oxford Times, Nov 2009 https://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/4733224.sharon-thomas-the-north-wall/
Butler, S. Neo-Maternalism: Contemporary Artists’ Approach to Motherhood, The Brooklyn Rail, Jan 2009
https://brooklynrail.org/2008/12/artseen/neo-maternalism-contemporary-artists-approach-to-motherhood
Nevola, F. Sharon Thomas: Making of a Painter, Apotropaic, Museet for Religios Kunst, Denmark: Narayana Press, 2009
https://sharonthomas.co.uk/sharon-thomas-the-making-of-a-painter/
Nevola, F. In Conversation with Sharon Thomas: Painter, Thinker and Jester, Apotropaic, Museet for Religios Kunst, Denmark: Narayana Press, 2009
https://sharonthomas.co.uk/in-conversation-with-sharon-thomas-painter-thinker-and-jester/
Rathje, J. Preface to Apotropaic, Museet for Religios Kunst, Denmark: Narayana Press, 2009
https://sharonthomas.co.uk/preface-to-apotropaic-by-gerd-rathje-2008/
Flow Magazine, Issue 13, p.12 http://www.gsa.ac.uk/media/455322/gsa_flowissue13_a4.pdf
2005 Overlap 1, 2005 www.exibart.com/profilo/eventiV2.asp?idelemento=25938
PUBLICATIONS
2021 Rural Rides (Foreword by Rice, G.), New Glasgow Society, Glasgow, UK
2014 Patrick, A. (Ed.) 21 Revolutions, Glasgow: Glasgow Women’s Library and Freight Books, 2014
2011 Tolley, G. (Web Editor). Thisiscentralstation.com, Glasgow, 2011 https://issuu.com/centralstation/docs/centralstationbook
GSA Prospectus, Director’s welcome, Glasgow, 2011
Nevola, F. & Rathje, G. (Ed.) Apotropaic, Museet for Religios Kunst, Denmark: Narayana Press, 2009 http://www.pulpnoir.dk/apotropaic/
2009 183rd Royal Scottish Academy: Annual Exhibition catalogue
2008 Frei, L. Cross Section: Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art. Glasgow: CCA, 2008
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22863924561
2007 Canziani, C. (Ed.) Ma Come Mai? Rome: 2007 http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/46786
2006 Fine Arts 2005-6, Benci, J. (Ed.) British School at Rome, Rome: Studio Lobodi Sid, 2006. ISBN 0904152502
Annual Report 2005-6, British School at Rome, Rome: Studio Lobodi Sid. 2006
2001 Young Scottish Painters Exhibition, Renfrew, M. Phillips Auctioneers, Edinburgh, 2001
Sum, Painting Department, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, 2001. ISBN 0901904929
COLLECTIONS
Ferrari, New York, USA
Danish Royal Collection, Denmark
Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, Denmark
Glasgow Museums, UK
Scottish Women’s Convention, Glasgow, UK
Unite The Union, Glasgow, UK
COMMISSIONS
2014 I Can Do It, collaboration with Martha Plimpton, Aubrey Plaza and Will Forte for comedy album 2776. Commission for Stephen Levinson, Joel Moss Levinson and Rob Kutner
Los Angeles, USA (Onekid Oneworld). https://soundcloud.com/2776album/i-can-do-it2011
21 Revolutions, Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow, UK
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS
2019 Research Forum: Feminist Public Sculpture, with Griselda Pollock, Hazel Reeves and Rachel Reeves (MP), Leeds Arts University, UK
2018 Mary Barbour: Making of a Woman in Art and Politics (Science Week: Two Marys), Caledonia University, Glasgow, UK
2017 Mary Barbour: Making of an Artwork and its Legacy, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, UK
2016 Mary Barbour: Making of an Artwork and its Legacy, Strathclyde University, Riverside Museum, Glasgow, UK
2015 Mary Barbour: Making of an Artwork and its Legacy, Arcadia University, Glasgow, UK
STUC, Women’s Council of The Isles, Glasgow, UK.
2011 Ken Currie, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2009 New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
2008 Fleeting Arcadias, Glasgow School of Art, UK
2005 British School at Rome, Italy
East Harlem School at Exodus House, New York, USA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 Unmute (Selected SSA Members Show), Dunoon Burgh Hall
Year of Stories (Selected RGI Members Show), Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art
Entheos, Curated by Sam Ainsley, Thyme James and Sharon Thomas
Marks Left Behind: NYAA Recollections, Connections and Impact of 9/11 Archive, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL
2022 Acting President Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art
Elected Council Member: Scottish Society of Artists
2014-18 Founder Member: Remember Mary Barbour Association