1948 Born in Houston, Texas EDUCATION 1981 Master of Fine Arts — Painting, University of Houston 1970 B. S. — Art Education, University of Houston AWARDS AND GRANTS 2001 Texas Artist of the Year, Art League Houston, Texas 2000 2000 Houston Millennium Makers Award, Houston, Texas 1997 Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Arts Council, Houston, Texas 1994 Residency Grant, Museum of Northern Territories, Darwin, Australia 1993 Mid-America Arts Alliance! National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in Sculpture Texas Art Celebration ‘93, Assistance League of Houston, Texas; Second Place, juried by David Ross 1991 Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Arts Council, Houston, Texas 1988 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery; University of Houston, Houston, Texas; First Place, juried by Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Richard Koshalek, and Alison de Lima Greene EXHIBITIONS 2001 Body and Spirit: The Imagist Art of Sharon Kopriva, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas Texas Artist of the Year Award, The Art League of Houston, Texas 2000 Sharon Kopriva: Work 1986—1998, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas Sharon Kopriva, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas 1999 Blind Faith, McAllen International Museum, McAllen, Texas 1998 Birds of Pray, Barbara Davis Gallery; Houston, Texas 1997 From Dust Thou Art, Dutch Phillips Gallery, Dallas, Texas Contemporary Art Month — Sharon Kopriva Drawings and Sculpture, Parchman Stremmel Gallery; San Antonio, Texas 1996 Vessels and Reliquaries, Virginia Miller Gallery; Coral Gables, Florida Reconciliation's, Barbara Davis Gallery; Houston, Texas Rituals, MSC Visual Arts Gallery; Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas 1994 New Constructions and Paintings, Hall-Barnett Gallery; New Orleans, Louisiana 1993 LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 1992 Conflicting Rituals, Corpus Christi, State University, Corpus Christi, Texas 1991 Rite of Passage, The Art Center, Waco, Texas Penances, The Art Museum of Southwest Texas, Beaumont, Texas 1989 Sharon Kopriva, Sculpture and Paintings, J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, illinois Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas 1986 Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2000 Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas Crossing State Lines, Texas Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1997 Mixed Mediums: Cycles of the Spiritual, Dimock Gallery, George Washington University; Washington, D. C. Classically Inspired, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas Day of the Dead Exhibition, Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas 1996 American Kaleidoscope — Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art, National Museum of American Art, The Smithsonian, Washington, D. C. Voices, two person exhibition, J. J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, California

The Fine Art of Craft and Sculpture, Horwitch/LewAllen Gallery; Santa Fe Hot Saturdays, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, Texas 32 Texas Artists, University of Texas — Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas Material and Spirit, Barbara Davis Gallery Houston, Texas 1995 Elvis + Marilyn = 2 Xlmmortal, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Texas: Myths and Reality, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Setting the Stage: A Contemporary View of the West, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis Bridge: Works and Images from Houston/Sarajevo, Davis! McClain — Pennzoil Building, Houston, Texas Texas Art for Russia, Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Tomsk, St. Petersburg, Rostovondon, Russia Figuration, Virginia Miller Gallery; Miami, Florida Ochi Gallery; Sun Valley, Idaho 1993 Texas Art Celebration ‘93, Assistance League of Houston, Texas; Second Place, juried by David Ross Hope-Houston Exchange Exhibition, Moody Gallery; Houston, Texas Faith and Charity Gallery; Hope, Idaho; curated by Edward and Nancy Keinholz Texas Contemporary Acquisitions of the ‘90’s, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Talleres en Fronteras: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art from South Texas and Baja Calilbrnia, Corpus Christi, Mexicali, El Paso, and Tijuana* Fur Fins, Feathers and More, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas Garden of Eden, Lanning Gallery, Houston, Texas Personal Attachments, Hooks- Epstein Gallery, Houston 1992 Dreams and Shields, Salt Lake City Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah* Texas Dialogues, Bridge Center, El Paso, Texas Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Lanning Gallery Houston, Texas Daily Bread, C. G. Jung Center, Houston, Texas 1990 A Sacred Presence, Simms Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana Ritual and Myth, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, Texas 1989 A Century of Texas Sculpture, The Huntington Museum, Austin, Texas* Another Reality, Hook-Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texas; Little Rock, Arkansas; McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas Allan Stone Gallery, New York, New York 1988 Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; First Place, juried by Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Richard Koshalek, and Alison de Lima Greene 1988 Texas Exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D. C.* Sensual Suifaces, Marilyn Butler Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1987 Kindred Spirits, Cydney Payton Gallery, Denver, Colorado Fstes and Others, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, New York 1986 Memento Mori, Centro Cukural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico; curated by Richard Flood Empowered Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico Allan Stone Gallery, New York, New York Texas Invitational, Fort Worth Art Festival, Fort Worth, Texas, Honorable Mention 1985 Fresh Paint: The Houston School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; P.S. 1, New York, New York, Oklahoma Fine Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; curated by Barbara Rose and Susie Kalil* exhibition catalogue