Sharon Horvath is an Associate Professor at Purchase College, SUNY in New York. Horvath has received numerous grants, awards, and fellowships, including a Certificate of Honor from Tyler School of Art Alumni Association in 2007, the Anonymous Was a Woman Grant for painting in 2006 and the Edwin Palmer Memorial Prize for painting from the National Academy Museum in New York City in 2004. In 2002 she received the Richard C. Von Hess Award for excellence as a teacher and mentor from the University of the Arts. She received Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants for painting in 1997 and in 1993. She was also awarded the Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize Fellowship for painting by the American Academy in Rome for 1997-98. In 1995 she was a Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation “space program” resident. In 1994, Horvath’s awards included an NEA Regional Grant (Mid-Atlantic) and an Elizabeth Foundation Grant for painting. She received a Hassem, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Award in 1999 and the Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1993. In 1992, Horvath won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for painting. During 1986 and 1987 she was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Horvath received her BFA from Cooper Union in New York City and her MFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia and Temple Abroad in Rome. In 1985 she was awarded a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Scholarship by the Tyler School of Art. Since 1987, Horvath has shown her paintings and drawings in solo exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston and internationally.