CV Sharon Walters
Education
2011 Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Fine Art Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts
2004 Fine Art Foundation Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts
1997 Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Social Sciences, Thames Valley University
Awards
2023 Second Place Mosaic Art Prize, Ares Management, exhibited Hauser & Wirth
2019 First Prize Reach Art Prize, Art for Youth London, exhibited at the Mall Galleries
Fellowships, Residencies and Commissions
2025-2026 Caird Research Fellow, National Maritime Museum, London
2025 Private Artist Residency, Somerset
2023 Vault Residency, Arthouse, Lagos
2022-present ‘Seeing Ourselves’ Podcast Commission and Events, National Maritime Museum, London
2022 Private Artist Residency, Somerset
2022 ‘Eric and Jessica Huntley’ - Commission and acquisition for the National Portrait Gallery
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2025 ‘Seeing Ourselves’, Hope93, London
2024 ‘Seeing Ourselves’, HackelBury, London
2022 ‘ Seeing Ourselves’ Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham
Group Exhibitions
2025 ‘Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2025 AIPAD Photography Show, HackelBury, New York
2025 ‘Eternal Threads’, Bishop Gallery, New York
2025 ‘Rise Up- Resistance, Revolution, Abolition’, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
2024 ‘Art Miami’, HackelBury, New York
2024 ‘Conversations’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2023 ‘Fragile’, Bomb Factory Gallery, London
2024 ‘Portraits, Landscapes, Abstractions’ HackelBury, London
2024 AIPAD Photography Show, HackelBury, New York
2023 ‘Floating in Place’, Gallery Affinity, Lagos, Nigeria
2023 ‘Rites of Passage’, Gagosian, London, United Kingdom
2023 ‘Like Paradise’ curated by Ekow Eshun Claridge's ArtSpace, London
2023 ‘Black Atlantic’, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
2022-present ‘Eric and Jessica Huntley’ acquired commission, National Portrait Gallery, London
2022 ‘The Spaces In Between’ W1 Curates, London
2021-22 ‘The Friendly Forest’, The Show Windows, Coventry, The Midlands
2021 ‘ITV Creates’, Nationwide TV
2020 ‘Black Minds Matter’, Tea Art Gallery, London
2019 Gunnersbury Park Museum, London
2019 ‘Common Threads’, NOW Gallery, London
2018 ‘Life Death Spirit Flesh’, Contemporary Collage International Group Show, Hundred
Years Gallery, London
Projects
Community Engagement
2022 Artist Mentor, Tate, London
2016-2019 Community Engagement Curator and Public Programmes Curator, Gunnersbury Park Museum, London
2002-2019 Arts Facilitator, Acton Park Play and Leisure Events (APPLE) arts charity, London
2016-2017 Art tutor, Feltham Young Offenders Institution, London
2013 Employability tutor, E.A.S.E, London
2011 Arts Facilitator, Family Workshops, The British Museum, London
2010-2011 Lead Curator: year-long, intergenerational Black History project, including collaborative project with James Barnor. Heritage Lottery Fund, London
2010 ‘Root to the Fruit’, Heritage Lottery Fund Project, London
Selected Press
2025 Eshun, Ekow ‘Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art’, London/New York: Thames & Hudson. Artwork featured
2024 Artwork featured in Conversations, publication accompanying the Walker Art Gallery publication, Liverpool
2024 Shepherd, Jacqueline “London Nightlife with Jacqueline Shepherd” BBC Sounds, 29 May 2024
2024 Steer, Emily “Art insiders share their favourite routes ahead of London Gallery Weekend” ArtBasel, May 10, 2024
2024 Campbell, Albertina “Sharon Walters: Seeing Ourselves At HackelBury Fine Art” FAD Magazine, 25 May 2024
2024 Shepherd, Jacqueline “London Nightlife with Jacqueline Shepherd” BBC Sounds, 24
January 2024
2022 Oshin, Péjú “Spotlight: Collage Artist Sharon Walters” The Wick, 05 October 2022
2022 Aesthetica, “Alternative Narratives of Empowerment”, Aesthetica, 31 May 2022
2022 TalkArt “Sharon Walters” TalkArt, Season 12 Ep 17, 22 April 2022
2021 Grazia “New Ways Of Seeing: Sharon Walters On Under-Representation Through
Collage” Grazia, Issue 10
2020 Wint, Rebecca “How This London Artist Explores and Reclaims Power Through Her Art” IDEO, November, 2020
2020 Gannon, Emma“Sharon Walters Art As Therapy” Ctrl Alt Delete Episode 291, October 2020
2020 Latouche, Deborah “Where do we go from here?” Millionair Magazine, August/September Issue 2020, pp 208 - 2011
2020 Entwistle, Lauren “The Immersive and Therapeutic Power of Art” The Temper, July
2020
2018 “Sharon Walters, Seeing Ourselves” Fearless Femme Magazine, October 2018
Public Collections
2024 House of Koko, London
2023 Soho House, High Road House, London
2023 National Portrait Gallery, London
2022 Soho House, Soho Works- Shoreditch, London
2020 Soho House, 180 The Strand, London