Bio
Sharon Servilio (she/her, b. 1983, New Jersey) received her BA from Brandeis University and her MFA from American University, with a focus on painting throughout her education. She then spent a formative decade in Queens, NY, where her work evolved into the third dimension as painted paper wall sculpture. She has lived and worked in Portland, OR since 2020, and has recently expanded her practice to include ceramics and curation.
Servilio’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Unit B in Baltimore and Long Island University in Brooklyn, and in two-person exhibitions at Gallery 114 in Portland and Loyola University in Baltimore. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions nationally, including at ChaShaMa, Field Projects, Ortega y Gasset, Printed Matter, Paradice Palase, Trestle, LABspace, and Eastern Michigan University.
Servilio has lectured as a visiting artist at the University of Texas, Montgomery College, Washington Studio School, the College of Creative Studies, the 92nd Street Y, and Towson University. She was awarded the RACC Make|Learn|Build and ArtsC3 grant, the RACC Public Purchase Award, and the Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant. Her work is included in the collection of the American University Museum in Washington, DC and the Public Portable Works Collection in Portland.
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SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 A Phone Call from the Zone. Unit B, Baltimore, MD, curated by Bradley Chriss.
2023 Two Thousand Nine Hundred Miles Away. Gallery 114, Portland, OR, with Jeffrey Fuchs.
2019 Temporal Embodiments. Julio Gallery, Loyola University, Baltimore, MD, with Sylvie van Helden, curated by Megan Rook-Koepsel.
2019 Earth and Air. Plum Benefits, New York, NY.
2013 Ghosts of the Monomythic Age. Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY.
2007 Tim Campbell & Sharon Servilio. American University, Washington DC.
2006 Paintings. Slosberg Gallery, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Spring, Time. The Vestibule, Seattle, WA.
Gifted. Gallery 114, Portland, OR.
Fruiting Bodies. Past Lives, Portland, OR.
Chaos Theory. Gallery 114, Portland, OR.
2023 Dream Alliance: Art, Anthropology, and Consciousness. ChaShaMa, New York, NY. Curated by Melinda Kiefer Santiago and Christopher Santiago.
Working Apart, Coming Together. Gallery 114, Portland, OR.
Divine Beacons. Astoria Visual Arts Gallery, Astoria, OR. Curated by Agnes Field.
Retrospect: Decommissioned Work. Lodger, online exhibition.
2022 A Call For Light. Past Lives, Portland, OR.
We Are All in This Together. Gallery 114, Portland, OR.
Project for Ukraine. Far x Wide, online benefit.
2020 Mirror Eye. Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Jes Cannon and Kate Mothes.
Art from the Epicenter, online benefit. Organized by Linda Ganjian and Paul Krause.
2019 HOLIDAY. LABspace, Hillsdale, NY.
Fresh Cuts. Crooked Tree Arts Center, Traverse City, MI.
2018 Inaugural Exhibition. Flat File, Montclair, NJ.
Midnight. Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Rose Nestler.
BIG Holiday Show. LABspace, Hillsdale, NY.
2017 Wave Pool. Field Projects, New York, NY. Curated by Katrina Slavic.
2015 Small Works. Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2013 2013 Juried Exhibition. Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ. Juror John Yau.
Beasts & Bodies. Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY.
Girls' Club. Liminal Art Space, Roanoke, VA. Curated by Megan Blafas-Chriss.
Let's Talk About Love, Baby. Printed Matter, New York, NY. Curated by Nick Lamia and Youmna Chlala for Chido Johnson's Love Library project.
2012 LOST and Found: Belief and Doubt in Contemporary Pictures. Passenger / Museum of New Art / Starkweather Art Center, Detroit, MI. Curated by Brian Barr.
Great Lakes Drawing Biennial. Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI. Juror Brian Barr.
2011 School33 Benefit. School33, Baltimore, MD.
2010 RE-VISION. American University Museum, Washington, DC. Curated by Zoe Charlton, Tim Doud, and Jack Rasmussen.
2008 SFOS 2008. Spencer Sewing Factory, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Suzanne Boatenreiter.
Proximity. American University Museum, Washington, DC.
2007 Right Under the Roof. Warehouse Gallery, Washington, DC.
Water Media on Paper. Heineman Myers Contemporary Art, Bethesda, MD.
1460 Wall Mountables. DC Arts Center, Washington, DC.
Artomatic. Crystal City, Arlington, VA.
CURATORIAL
2024 Hyphae. Group exhibition, Gallery 114, Portland, OR.
PRESS/PUBLICATIONS
Hannah Krafcik, “Gallery 114’s Nature-Inspired Group Art Show Explores Ecological Mysticism,” Willamette Week, October 29, 2024.
“Cheechable LIVN: VIBES” (video), Cheechable LIVN, December 5, 2024.
Sharon Servilio, “A Charting of Dream Objects,” Anthropology of Consciousness 34 (2): 306–315. 2023, ed. Melinda Kiefer Santiago and Christopher Santiago.
Lauren Rice, “6 + 1 Questions with Sharon Servilio,” Art Habit, August 22, 2023.
Cara Ober, “Friday Gallery Roundup: Three Short Reviews,” Bmore Art, March 15, 2019.
AWARDS
2024 Regional Arts & Cultural Council ArtsC3 Grant, for curatorial project
2024 Residency at The Verdancy Project, Troutdale, OR
2024 Puffin Foundation Grant
2023 Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant
2023 Regional Arts & Cultural Council Public Art Purchase
2022 Regional Arts & Cultural Council: Make|Learn|Build Grant
2012 Juror Award, Great Lakes Drawing Biennial
2008 Crisp Ellert Award for acquisition by American University Museum
2007 Mellon Grant for Travel and Research
2006 Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts Grant
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
City of Portland and Multnomah County Portable Works Collection, Portland, OR.
The Watkins Collection at the American University Museum, Washington, DC.
VISITING ARTIST ENGAGEMENTS
2024 University of Texas, Austin, TX.
2023 Towson University, Towson, MD.
2020 Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD.
2019 92nd Street Y, New York, NY.
2013 Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD.
2012 Washington Studio School, Washington, DC.
2009 College of Creative Studies, Detroit, MI.
EDUCATION
2008 MFA, American University, Washington, DC.
2005 BA, Studio Art, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.