| Sharon Gilbert | |
| Birth Date: | 1944 |
| Birth Place: | Brooklyn, New York |
| Death Date: | June 2005 |
| Death Place: | Brooklyn, New York |
| Citizenship: | American |
| Education: | Cooper Union |
| Occupation: | Artist, writer |
| Spouse: | Vyt Bakaitis |
| Children: | 2 |
Sharon Gilbert (1944–2005) was a New York-based artist whose work included sculpture, collage, and art books. Her art employs information from print media and photocopy techniques to create socially critical content in her artwork, often from a feminist point of view. Focuses of her work include nuclear radiation poisoning, environmental pollution, chemical warfare, and police brutality. Her most noted work is A Nuclear Atlas (1982) published by the Women's Studio Workshop.[1]
Gilbert's work has been exhibited at venues including the Brooklyn Museum,[2] [3] Museum of Modern Art,[4] Yale University Art Gallery,[5] Printed Matter,[6] the Center for Book Arts,[7] Centre Pompidou, and Harvard Art Museums,[8] [9] among others.
Gilbert was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1944. Gilbert graduated with a Bachelor's of Fine Art from The Cooper Union in 1966.
She married Lithuanian poet, Vyt Bakaitis. They had two children. Gilbert died in June of 2005.[10]
In 1982, Gilbert was awarded an artist residency at the Women's Studio Workshop. Gilbert produced A Nuclear Atlas during the residency. It was published and printed by Women's Studio Workshop.
In 1989, Gilbert was awarded an Artist's Fellowship in the Printmaking, Drawing, & Artist Books division from the New York Foundation for the Arts.[11] A decade later, in 1999, Gilbert was awarded an artist residency at the Ragdale Foundation.
In 2000, Gilbert was selected for a residency at the Virginia Center for the Arts.
| 1986 | Books by Artists | Paris, France | Group exhibition | ||
| January 31, 1988 - April 19, 1988 | Committed to Print | Museum of Modern Art | New York, New York | Group exhibition[12] | |
| April 7, 1990 - May 12, 1990 | Book Arts in the USA | Center for Book Arts | New York, New York | Group exhibition[13] | |
| 1991-1992 | 25 Years of Feminism, Women's Artist Series, 1971-1996 | Rutgers University Libraries | New Brunswick, New Jersey | Group exhibition[14] | |
| March 7, 1992 - May 23, 1992 | Completing the Circle: Artists' Books on the Environment | Minnesota Center for Book Arts | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Group exhibition[15] | |
| January 20, 1995 - March 26, 1995 | Reinventing the Emblem: Contemporary Artists Recreate a Renaissance Idea | Yale University Art Gallery | New Haven, CT | Group exhibition | |
| 1999 | Short of Rage: Photocollages | PABA Gallery | New Haven, CT | One person exhibition | |
| February 3, 2000 - May 7, 2000 | Working in Brooklyn: Artist Books | Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn, New York | Group exhibition | |
| 2004 | Focusing on the Environment, Spirituality, & Social Justice | Book Arts Gallery | Group exhibition - hosted online only | ||
| April 17, 2004 - August 15, 2004 | Open House: Working in Brooklyn | Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn, New York | Group exhibition | |
| June 12, 2004 - August 9, 2004 | Artists Books | Kunst Centret Silkeborg Bad | Silkeborg, Denmark | Group exhibition |
| 1979 | 3-Mile Island Reproductions | ||
| 1980 | 80' Faces | ||
| 1980 | Frei BUCH | ||
| 1980 | Waste | ||
| 1980 | Scrapbook of Freiburg | ||
| 1980 | A Still Life Book | ||
| 1981 | Via Air Tours | ||
| 1982 | A Nuclear Atlas | Published by Women's Studio Workshop | |
| 1988 | Poison America[16] | ||
| 1989 | Green The Fragile[17] | ||
| 1990 | Urgent Life | ||
| 1991 | Action Poses | ||
| 1992 | Urban Renewal | ||
| 1994 | Working Time | ||
| 1997 | Chemical Ways | ||
| 2001 | Police (State) America | ||
| 2003 | (So Quiet) |