REBECCA SHARP
Rebecca Sharp (born 1989, Sweden) lives and works as an artist in Umeå. In 2023, she took her Master's degree from Umeå Academy of Fine Arts.
Rebecca works cross-disciplinary where her poetic and conceptual work brings together a research-based approach with a romantic sensibility that reflects on contemporary times, where nature, culture and spirituality meet.
EDUCATION
2023 - MA Fine Art. Umeå Academy of Fine Arts.
2019 - BA Fine Art - First Class Honours. The University of Northampton.
COURSES
2016 - Exhibition Design. Malmö University.
Art History A2: From the End of the Second World War to the Present. Umeå University.
2011 - Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative. Malmö University.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 - The Entire World Is Where We Live / Galleriet Umeå Konsthögskola, SE.
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2017 - Klippans Konsthall, with Malin Olsen, Klippan, SE.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 - I Cut Across The Stream / MA Degree Show, Bildmuseet, SE.
2023 - A Cat Across The Street / MFA Group Show. GSA Gallery (Stockholm), SE.
2022 - Teckningstriennalen Svart på Vitt, Landskrona Konsthall, SE.
2022 - Galleri Backlund, Göteborg, SE.
2022 - Ctrl+Affect / Galleri Alva - Norrlands Universitetssjukhus, Umeå, SE.
2021 - Works in progress. Experimental residential workshop / Galleri Glas & Lera, Röbäck, SE.
2019 - Free Range / The Truman Brewery, London, UK.
2019 - BA Degree Show, The University of Northampton, Northampton, UK.
2018 - Another World Is Possible / CVAN-EM Annual Event, Newton Hall, Northampton, UK.
2018 - Lest You Become A Subject / Spring Show. NN Contemporary Project Space, Northampton, UK.
2017 - Forecast – Public Art Festival / Delapré Abbey, Northampton, UK.
2016 - Galleri Konsten, Helsingborgs Konstförening, Helsingborg, SE.
2015 - Galleri Bluelights Juried Exhibition, Halmstad, SE.
2015 - Degree Show, Kulturhotellet, Helsingborg, SE.
GRANTS & AWARDS
2023 - Stipendium Konsthögskolan Umeå Universitet
2021 - Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse
2021 - Konstnärsnämndens Krisstipendium 3
2020 - Konstnärsnämndens Krisstipendium 2
2016 - Klippans Kulturstipendium
2015 - Klippans Kommuns Kulturpris
PUBLICATIONS
2023 - I Cut Across The Stream, Umeå University, ISBN: 978-91-988614-0-2.
2018 - Examine how artists today explore site-specific art in relation to contemporary society, PPLATS online publication.
ARTICLES
2016 - Helsingborgs Dagblads Vårsalong.