Sharon Yates

Location: Lubec, Maine

Born in Rochester New York, painter Sharon Yates received a BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from Tulane University. She taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art for many years and directed MICA’s summer landscape program in Canada. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally and won her several awards including the Prix de Rome, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant and the Shatalov award at the National Academy of Design where she is an academician member. Recent exhibitions include First Street Gallery, NYC; Dowling Walsh Gallery, ME; Zeuxis Traveling Exhibition (Prince Street Gallery- October 2010) June Fitzpatrick Gallery, ME; and Center for Maine Contemporary Art Rockport, ME.

Public collections include Bates College Museum of Art; University of Alberta, Canada; National Academy of Design, NYC; Yale University Art Gallery; Oklahoma City Art Museum; United Technologies; University of Louisville; Tides Institute, Eastport ME; and University of Maine at Machias. Her work is published in two books by Alan Gussow : A Sense of Place,The Artist and the American Land and Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism.

She lives and works in Lubec, ME.