Sharon Thompson CV
Email: sharonthompson.ca@gmail.com
Website: sharonthompson.ca
Instagram: @sharonthompson.ca
Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/Paintings-by-Sharon-Thompson
Education: 1983 BFA (First Class Honours) Queen’s University, Kingston ON
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Crowsnest Pass Public Library, Crowsnest Pass AB, Voices of Abstraction (2-person)
2024 Artrium Space, Gallery 501, Strathcona AB (2-person)
2024 Kiwanis Gallery, Red Deer AB, Voices of Abstraction (2-person)
2023 Mezzanine Gallery, Alberta Society of Artists, Voices of Abstraction, Calgary AB (2-person)
2022 Artpoint Gallery, Calgary AB
2019 Galerie St Laurent+Hill, Ottawa
2019 & 17-15 &13 Kingston Glass Studio & Gallery
2018 Cedar Ridge Gallery, Toronto
2017 Ban Righ Foundation, Queen's University, Kingston
2011 Dales Gallery, Victoria, BC
2010 The WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay
2010 The City of Kitchener Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener
2009 Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston
2009 Galerie St Laurent+Hill, Ottawa
2009 Sandra Whitton Gallery, Kingston
2008 Cambridge Centre for the Arts, Cambridge, ON
2008 Studio Gallery, Queen’s University, Kingston
2007 Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa
2007 Parry Sound Station Gallery, Parry Sound, ON
2006 Community Arts Program, Ottawa
2002 McLanahan Gallery, Penn State University, (Ivyside Juried National Competition), Altoona, PA
2002 Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa
2001 Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto
2000 Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston
1997 Cedar Ridge Gallery, Toronto
1995 Galerie Estampe Plus, Quebec City
1995 Cornwall Regional Art Gallery
1994 Robert Langen Gallery, Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener ON
1993 The Homer Watson Gallery, Kitchener
1993 The Temiskaming Gallery, Haileybury,ON
1992 The Lindsay Gallery, Lindsay ON
1992 Rails End Gallery, Haliburton ON
1992 The Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, ON
1991 Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Focus G.,Kingston
1990 Bancroft Art Gallery, Bancroft,ON
1988 St. Lawrence College, Kingston
1988 Belleville Public Library, Belleville,ON
1985 Spectrum Gallery, London, ON
1984 KAAI, Kingston
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Gaia, Gallerium Art, Group exhibition (online)
2025 Circles Squares, Triangles, Gallerium Art, Group Exhibition (online)
2025 Chroma, Art Fluent Gallery (online)
2024 & 23 Utterly Profound ISEA (online juried members exhibition)
2024 Abstraction: Forms, Lines, Colours, Gallerium (online)
2024 The Holy Art Gallery, Amsterdam,The Netherland (Digital Exhibition)
2024 The Holy Art Gallery, Paris, France (Digital Exhibition)
2024 Abstraction, International Group Exhibition, Biafarin (online)
2024 Making Our Marks ISEA Juried Members Exhibition (online)
2024 Harcourt House, Members Exhibition, Edmonton AB
2024 Leighton Art Centre, Millarville, Alberta, Members Exhibition
2023 Spirituality, International Group Exhibition, Gallerium (online)
2022 Art From the Unknown, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre, Edmonton AB
2022 Arcadia Juried International Exhibition, Tyler Texas
2022 ISEA Innovations 2022 Prince Albert AB
2024 22 Red Bluff Art Gallery, Vibrant Landscapes, International Juried Competition, Red Bluff, California (on line)
2021 LasLaguna Art Gallery Purely Abstract, International Juried Competition, LasLaguna Beach CA
2021 ASA Open Juried Traveling Exhibition, Into The Light, Drumheller, Crow’s Nest Pass
2020 ASA Open Juried Exhibition, Reflections and Shadows, Calgary AB
2016 & 12 & 06 & 99 & 93 & 87-89 Ontario Society of Artists, Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Toronto
2016 Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Dig, Kingston
2016 Pump House and Steam Museum, A Sense of Place, Kingston
2014 Arta Gallery, Artful Escapes, Toronto
2014 Kingston Glass Studio and Gallery, Looking Through Landscape, Kingston
2013 Pump House and Steam Museum, I am Water, MultiMedia Arts Project, Kingston
2013 Scarborough Arts, Child Sight, Open Juried Exhibition, Toronto
2008 Arts Ottawa East, Open Juried Show, Ottawa
2007 Avenue Art Gallery, New Artists, Montreal
2007 Arts Etobicoke, Annual Juried Arts Exhibition, Toronto
2006 Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant, Juried Exhibition, Brantford
2005 d’Art Center, National Juried Exhibition, Norfolk, VA
2005 & 03 &99 Society of Canadian Artists, Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Toronto
2004 Bowery Gallery, 2004 Bowery Gallery National Competition, New York City, NY
2004 Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, Chelsea Global Showcase 2004 Competition, New York City
2004 Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Juried Competition, Grimsby, Ontario
2004 Grand Forks Art Gallery, A Rose is a Rose, National Juried Exhibition, Grand Forks, B.C
2003 Central Missouri State University Art Center Gallery, Greater Midwest International Juried Exhibition XVIII, MI
2002 Fulton St. Gallery, Interpreting Landscape, International Juried Competition, Troy, NY
2002 Impact Artists’ Gallery, National Women’s Exhibition, Open Juried Competition, Buffalo, NY
2002 & 01 & 00 Modern Fuel Gallery,Annual Regional Juried Show, Kingston.
2001 Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Magnum Opus X111, Open Juried International Exhibition, Sacramento, CA
2001 Ottawa City Hall, Images of Music, Ottawa, Ontario
1998 Modern Fuel Gallery, Featured Artist, First Night, Kingston
1995 & 94 Edward Day Gallery, Regional Juried Show, Kingston
1990 Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, Notes from Eden: Landscape and Gender, Owen Sound
1988 Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Regional Invitational Group Show, Kingston
Awards and Grants
2025 Premier Artist Prize 2025, Contemporary Art Station
2025 Masterful Minds Award 2025 Circle Foundation of the Arts
2025 Award Medallion, Circles Squares Triangles , Gallerium Art
2024 Honorable Mention Award, Circle Foundation For The Arts
2023 Award of Excellence, Artist of the Year 2022-23 Competition, Circle Foundation for the Arts
2020 Lifetime Honorary Membership, Organization of Kingston Women Artists
2013 Second Prize, Juried Art Salon, Kingston Arts Council
2012 De Serres Award, Ontario Society of Artists Open Juried Show, Toronto
2010 Nan Yeoman Legacy Award, Kingston Arts Council, Annual Juried Arts Salon, Kingston
2011 & 10 & 08 & 00 & 01&02 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2007 Second Prize, Kingston Arts Council, Annual Juried Arts Salon, Kingston
2005 Honourable Mention, Society of Canadian Artists, National Open Juried Competition, Toronto
2004 Honourable Mention, Kingston Arts Council, Annual Juried Arts Salon, Kingston
2003 The SCA Award, Society of Canadian Artists, National Open Juried Competition, Toronto
1996 & 94-84 Materials Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
1993 Award of Merit, Ontario Society of Artists Open Juried Show, Toronto
1983-81 Dean's Scholar, Queen's University
l982 Artsfest Prize for Best Painting, Kingston ON
Residencies and Workshops
2003 Vermont Studio Residency, Johnson, VA (half scholarship)
1996 Residency, Pouch Cove, Newfoundland
1987 Emma Lake Atist’s Workshop
Selected Publications
2024 Worldwide Art Magazine Issue 14
2024 Spotlight Contemporary Art Magazine Issue 36
2023 Spotlight Contemporary Art Magazine Magazine
2021 Catalogue , Into the Light, Alberta Society of Artists Travelling Exhibition
2016 Catalogue “143rd Juried Exhibition”, OSA, Toronto
2014 Catalogue “Then and Now”, OKWA 2012 Catalogue “I Am Water”, Kingston
2007 “Feminine Spirituality” Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa ON
2006 International Artist, Vol. 48, Apr/May 2006
2003 Profile Magazine (Jul 2003), Kingston ON
2001 Catalogue, Deja Vu, Community Arts Ontario
2000 Kingston Whig Standard, Art Review (09/16)
1993-90 Kingston Women Artists DateBook
1992 Feature Cover: Kingston Women Artists DateBook
1991-90 Catalogue, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Exhibitions
1989 Catalogue: Notes from Eden, Tom Thomson Gallery
Member of Art Galleries and Orginizations
Juried Member , Alberta Society of Artists Calgary AB
Carfac Alberta Edmonton AB
Contemporary Calgary AB
The Leighton Art Centre, AB
The Glenbow, Calgary AB
Lifetime Member, Organization of Kingston Women Artists, Kingston ON
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston ON
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto ON
Gallery Representation
Galerie St Laurent+Hill, Ottawa ON
Studio 22, Kingston ON
Public Collections
Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Permanent Collection), Kingston
Miniloft Collection, Berlin, Germany
Edith Rankin Memorial United Church, Kingston
Mount Sinai Hospital Collection, Toronto
IBM Corporation, Toronto Ontario
Municipal Employees Retirement Service, Toronto
McKinsey and Co. Management Consultants, Toronto
Paterson, McDougal, Barristers and Solicitors, Toronto
Userful Corporation, Calgary
RDS Corporation, Calgary
PMT Corporation, Calgary
The Registry Resort Hotel, Naples, Florida
Canadian National Railroad Art Collection Montreal