Marshall Sharpe
Painting
Marshall Sharpe, born 1988, is from Greensboro, NC. He is a painter currently based in Saint Louis, MO where he teaches painting at Southern Illinois s University Edwardsville as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art. Sharpe earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2020. At UCSB, he was fully funded through a Chancellor's Fellowship, the University's most prestigious scholarship. In 2019, he curated the annual UCSB Undergraduate Exhibition and reception at the Art, Design and Architecture Museum, comprising over 50 individual student works.
Sharpe received his BA in Art from Elon University in 2010. His education background includes a Master of Arts from Chaminade University of Honolulu, four years of teaching at the university level, and 8 years at the secondary level. He has exhibited his work in four solo exhibition at UCSB's Glassbox Gallery, and a two-person exhibition at California State Channel Islands. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Art Design and Architecture Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, the Woodbury Museum in Orem, Utah, California State University Long Beach, Elon University, and the Honolulu Museum of Art School. His work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Hawaii Public Radio, Lum Art Magazine, and the Santa Barbara Independent.
