EDUCATION
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2006 BFA, Magna Cum Laude, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle Washington
2002-05 Pratt Institute, New York, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2012 - Violet Strays, interactive web-based project curated by Serrah Russell and Alyssa Volpigno
2012 - Mapping an Irretrievable Field of Memory, The Firm, Seattle
2011 - gut [vigor] heart [resolve] hands [focus] , Cornish Alumni Gallery
2009 labour ←→ wait ←→ repeat, Georgetown Art Center, Seattle WA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2013
BLACKwhiteGREY, curated by Julia Hensley, Steele Gallery, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle WA
Chamber Music, curated by Scott Lawrimore The Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA
2012
Ils Disent, Cornish Alumni Gallery, Seattle WA (curated)
Seeing is Believing: A Study of Dreams, Ghost Gallery, Seattle WA
TEXT EDITOR, SOIL, Seattle WA (curated)
Red Current, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA (curated)
ONN/OF: A Festival of Light, The Sweater Factory, Seattle, WA
2011
The Sweet Life (Act Like You’re Interested), with Troy Gua, NEPO House, Seattle WA
(so) Much (too) Little, Group Show with Gala Bent and Counsel Langley, Northwinds, Port Townsend, WA
Soft Desires I Can Trace, curated by Serrah Russell, NEPO House, Seattle WA
NEPO 5K Don't Run, NEPOHouse, Seattle WA
Show & Tell, pop-up in NYC, curated by Sierra Stinson & Victoria Yee Howe
Chain Letter, group show Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Forced Focus, duo show with Cristin Ford, OK Hotel, Seattle WA
A Good Line: Artists on Poems, group show Hugo House, Seattle WA
Strange Coupling, group show pairing UW Students and local artists, Vermillion, Seattle WA
Bloom & Collapse, group show curated by Amanda Manitach & Susanna Bluhm, SOIL, Seattle WA
2010
All SOIL'S DAY, Annual Art Auction, SOIL Cooperative, Seattle WA
REDUX 2010: ARCHITECTURE Challenge Invitational, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA (finalist)
You're So Cool, curated by Erin Toale, OHGE Ltd, Seattle WA
Meet Greet Rinse Repeat, collaborative group project with Troy Gua, Monarch Studios, Seattle WA
BrüTübe: All's Fair in Love & War, curated by Cable Griffith, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland WA
Bad Words, curated by Chris Crites, Twilight Artist Collective, Seattle WA
2009
We Built This to Leave, Vermillion, Seattle WA
Dig: SOIL Invitational 2009, SOIL, Seattle WA
AWARDS & HONOURS
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2010 Kirkland Arts Center REDUX Finalist, juried by Stefano Catalani, Amanda Kitchings,
and Greg Kucera
2006 Selected for Fred Hutchinson 2006 Cornish BFA Art on Loan Program, Seattle, WA
2006 Magna Cum Laude, Cornish College of the Arts
2005-06 Nelly Scholarship Award, Cornish College of the Arts
2005 President's Scholarship Award, Cornish College of the Arts
2004-05 President’s Scholarship Award, Pratt Institute
PRESS
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Amanda Manitach, City Arts; "Cross-Dressing the Gendered Gender"
Jen Graves, The Stranger (print, and online); "216 Nipples Later"
Jen Graves, SLOG Visual Arts Blog; "Taking Whatshertits to Another Level"
Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint; "Arnold, Molenkamp, Offenbacher"
CRAFT: Magazine Blog "Sharon Arnold's Paper Cut Art"
The Jealous Curator "I'm Jealous of Sharon Arnold"
Yellow Umbrella "Stepping Out in Georgetown"
Molo's Sketchbook "Molorazzi: Sharon Arnold in Georgetown & Vignettes"
Joey Veltkamp's Best Of; gut [vigor] heart [resolve] hands [focus]
Jen Graves, SLOG Visual Arts Blog; A Word on Group Shows
Joey Vetlkamp's Best Of; Nixe by Sharon Arnold
Jen Graves, SLOG Visual Arts Blog; Currently Hanging.
Emily Pothast, Translinguistic Other; We Build This to Leave
Joey Veltkamp, Best Of; Interview
Joey Veltkamp, Best Of; First Thursday November 2009(show preview)
Susanna Bluhm, Getting to Know You Better; Recording Sharon Arnold
KUOW's The Conversation with Ross Reynolds; interview
Emily Pothast, Translinguistic Other; Let's Talk About Sex, (or How I Became an Erotic Artist)
Joey Veltkamp, Best Of; interview
COLLECTIONS
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Arnold Building Atrium, Seattle WA
ART NEWS: in August, I'll be leading two 2-hour drawing classes at the Olympic Sculpture Park. In October I'll be leading a guided tour for Gage Academy of Art at the "Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou" exhibit at SAM. And there will always and forever be LxWxH - come join me!
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2006 BFA, Magna Cum Laude, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle Washington
2002-05 Pratt Institute, New York, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2012 - Violet Strays, interactive web-based project curated by Serrah Russell and Alyssa Volpigno
2012 - Mapping an Irretrievable Field of Memory, The Firm, Seattle
2011 - gut [vigor] heart [resolve] hands [focus] , Cornish Alumni Gallery
2009 labour ←→ wait ←→ repeat, Georgetown Art Center, Seattle WA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2013
BLACKwhiteGREY, curated by Julia Hensley, Steele Gallery, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle WA
Chamber Music, curated by Scott Lawrimore The Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA
2012
Ils Disent, Cornish Alumni Gallery, Seattle WA (curated)
Seeing is Believing: A Study of Dreams, Ghost Gallery, Seattle WA
TEXT EDITOR, SOIL, Seattle WA (curated)
Red Current, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA (curated)
ONN/OF: A Festival of Light, The Sweater Factory, Seattle, WA
2011
The Sweet Life (Act Like You’re Interested), with Troy Gua, NEPO House, Seattle WA
(so) Much (too) Little, Group Show with Gala Bent and Counsel Langley, Northwinds, Port Townsend, WA
Soft Desires I Can Trace, curated by Serrah Russell, NEPO House, Seattle WA
NEPO 5K Don't Run, NEPOHouse, Seattle WA
Show & Tell, pop-up in NYC, curated by Sierra Stinson & Victoria Yee Howe
Chain Letter, group show Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Forced Focus, duo show with Cristin Ford, OK Hotel, Seattle WA
A Good Line: Artists on Poems, group show Hugo House, Seattle WA
Strange Coupling, group show pairing UW Students and local artists, Vermillion, Seattle WA
Bloom & Collapse, group show curated by Amanda Manitach & Susanna Bluhm, SOIL, Seattle WA
2010
All SOIL'S DAY, Annual Art Auction, SOIL Cooperative, Seattle WA
REDUX 2010: ARCHITECTURE Challenge Invitational, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA (finalist)
You're So Cool, curated by Erin Toale, OHGE Ltd, Seattle WA
Meet Greet Rinse Repeat, collaborative group project with Troy Gua, Monarch Studios, Seattle WA
BrüTübe: All's Fair in Love & War, curated by Cable Griffith, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland WA
Bad Words, curated by Chris Crites, Twilight Artist Collective, Seattle WA
2009
We Built This to Leave, Vermillion, Seattle WA
Dig: SOIL Invitational 2009, SOIL, Seattle WA
AWARDS & HONOURS
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2010 Kirkland Arts Center REDUX Finalist, juried by Stefano Catalani, Amanda Kitchings,
and Greg Kucera
2006 Selected for Fred Hutchinson 2006 Cornish BFA Art on Loan Program, Seattle, WA
2006 Magna Cum Laude, Cornish College of the Arts
2005-06 Nelly Scholarship Award, Cornish College of the Arts
2005 President's Scholarship Award, Cornish College of the Arts
2004-05 President’s Scholarship Award, Pratt Institute
PRESS
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Amanda Manitach, City Arts; "Cross-Dressing the Gendered Gender"
Jen Graves, The Stranger (print, and online); "216 Nipples Later"
Jen Graves, SLOG Visual Arts Blog; "Taking Whatshertits to Another Level"
Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint; "Arnold, Molenkamp, Offenbacher"
CRAFT: Magazine Blog "Sharon Arnold's Paper Cut Art"
The Jealous Curator "I'm Jealous of Sharon Arnold"
Yellow Umbrella "Stepping Out in Georgetown"
Molo's Sketchbook "Molorazzi: Sharon Arnold in Georgetown & Vignettes"
Joey Veltkamp's Best Of; gut [vigor] heart [resolve] hands [focus]
Jen Graves, SLOG Visual Arts Blog; A Word on Group Shows
Joey Vetlkamp's Best Of; Nixe by Sharon Arnold
Jen Graves, SLOG Visual Arts Blog; Currently Hanging.
Emily Pothast, Translinguistic Other; We Build This to Leave
Joey Veltkamp, Best Of; Interview
Joey Veltkamp, Best Of; First Thursday November 2009(show preview)
Susanna Bluhm, Getting to Know You Better; Recording Sharon Arnold
KUOW's The Conversation with Ross Reynolds; interview
Emily Pothast, Translinguistic Other; Let's Talk About Sex, (or How I Became an Erotic Artist)
Joey Veltkamp, Best Of; interview
COLLECTIONS
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Arnold Building Atrium, Seattle WA
ART NEWS: in August, I'll be leading two 2-hour drawing classes at the Olympic Sculpture Park. In October I'll be leading a guided tour for Gage Academy of Art at the "Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou" exhibit at SAM. And there will always and forever be LxWxH - come join me!
