Sharon Kivland
Dr Sharon Kivland (born 1955 in Germany) is an artist and writer living in Brittany and working in London. She was Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University and Research Associate at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research in London. She has exhibited internationally since 1979 and her work was represented by Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer in Düsseldorf. for many years until sadly, the gallery closed. She was a commissioning editor for the journal EROS, and now is editor and publisher of her own small press MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE. In 2023 she became Visiting Professor at Kingston University, London. Awards and recognition Kivland has received numerous awards and grants for her work, including the Greater London Arts award (1987 and 1991), the Henry Moore Foundation exhibition award (1987), the Tower Hamlets Artists award (1987), The Elephant Trust publication award (1988), the British School at Rome award in Sculpture (1990), a Canadian Council research award (1991), the Harmstone Bequest from Sheffield City Council (1993), and more. She has also undertaken numerous prestigious residencies, including ones at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada (1989), Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada (1996), Cité des Arts Internationale, Paris (1997) and the Second International