EDUCATION

 

1972 M.S., Art Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

1965-66 Graduate Studies, Painting and Drawing, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

1965 B.S., Painting and Drawing, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2021   Searching for the Narrative, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR

2019  True Myth, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR

2017 Breathing Lessons, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR 

2016 Pop Up Show, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR 

2015 Luck, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR

2008 The Presence of Absence, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR

2006 Link, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR (catalog) 

2004 Painted Stories, Marghitta Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR

2003 Lost and Found, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR

1998 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR

2000 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR

1994 Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR

1989 Maveety Gallery, Portland, OR

1987 North View Gallery, Portland, OR

1986 Columbia Arts Gallery, Portland, OR

1985 Multnomah Art Center, Portland, OR

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2020   Gatherings Project, Gail Severn Gallery, SunValley, ID

2020   Gatherings Project, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA

2020   Summer Group Show: Artists Under the Quarantine, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR

2019  Visual Magic: An Oregon Invitational, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

2019  Blackfish is 40, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR

2018  Summer Group Show, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR

2017 Visual Magic, NW Regional Educational Service District and the George D. Green Art Institute, Hillsboro, OR

2016 Visual Magic, Northwest Academy and the George D. Green Art Institute, Portland, OR                      

2015 Winter Group Show, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR

2014 New Work by Gallery Artists, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR

2014 Becoming Blackfish, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR

2010 Two of a Kind, Curated by Leo Michelson, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR  

2008 Art For The Bridge Auction, The Women’s Museum, Dallas, TX

2007 Pacifist Potential, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR

2006 Self-Portrait Invitational, Alexander Gallery, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR

2005 First Person: A Juried Exhibition of Self-Portraits, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR

2004    The Clown Show: A Juried Group Exhibition, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR

2003 Gender Symposium, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR             

2002 Kows for Kids, A Benefit for Trillium Family Services and New Avenues for Youth, Portland, OR

2002 Sexuality and Gender, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR

2001 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR

2000 Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR

1999 Beauty and the Beast, Maryhill Museum, Maryhill, WA

1999 Small Works Show, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR

1999 Figurative Paintings and Sculpture, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR

1997 Artist/Teacher/Administrator: A Spectrum of Creativity, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR

1996 Miniature Show, Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland, OR

1995 Galerie Brati Catku, Prague, Czech Republic

1995 Okresni Museum, Jacin, Czech Republic

1995 Mentor Show, Gallery 114, Portland, OR

1995 Blackfish at Fifteen, Hult Center, Eugene, OR

1992 Blame it on Ken Show, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

1990 Working Wood, Maveety Gallery, Portland, OR

1989 University of Oregon Art Alumni Show, Juried, Eugene, OR

1989 Blackfish Anti-Apartheid Show, Invitational, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR

1988 Oregon Art Annual, Juried, Oregon State Fair, Salem, OR

1987 Lawrence Gallery, Portland, OR

1987 Images They Make By Themselves, Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane, WA

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

2017 Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, OR 

2006 Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Women’s Center, Portland, OR

2004 City of Portland Portable Works Collection, Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC), Portland, OR

2002 The White House Ornament Collection, Washington, D.C. 

2002 City of Portland Visual Chronicles, Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC),Portland, OR

2000 Kaiser Permanente Mother Joseph Plaza, Portland, OR

1994 Portland Community College Performing Arts Center, Sylvania Campus, Portland, OR

1992 Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus, Portland, OR

1990 Portland Community College, Rock Creek Campus, Portland, OR

1965 University of Oregon, Department of Art and Architecture, Eugene, OR

 

MEDIA

 

2006 Oregon Art Beat, Season 7, Episode 739, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland, OR 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PUBLISHED ILLUSTRATIONS 

 

2022  Book cover illustration, The 5150 Poems, written by Sandra McPherson, published by Nine Mile Art Corp, LaFayette, NY

2021  “Subject and Object, A Photographic Look at the Visual Arts Book 3,” by Aaron Johanson, Portland, OR, 2021 2020   The Artist Series 5: Visual Artists, Oregon Arts Watch, K.B. Dixon photographer, October 2020

2020   Art Alumna Talks, Magical Realism, Chaos, and the Allure of the Desert, University of Oregon, College of Design, Oregon Quarterly, Spring 2020

2020   Ann Japenga, Magic Lessons: The Mythological Worlds of Sharon Bronzan, California Desert Art, January 2020

2020   Wanda Fudge, Guest Artist Sharon Bronzan, Wanda Fudge and friends, January 2002-20 Cover illustration,    Windfall-A Journal of Poetry of Place, Spring and Fall, 2002-20 

2019   “A History of Portland Women Artists” Oregon Arts Watch, Bob Hicks, July 2019 2019   Hartz Jill and Danielle M Knapp, eds. “Visual Magic: An Oregon Invitational” Eugene, OR, Jordon Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, exhibition catalog, pp. 25, 75, cover 

2019  Feature Illustration, “Cause and Effect,” Oregon Quarterly, Spring 2019, p. 13

2019   Panel discussion: Katherine Ace’s painting, ”Nine Portraits,” Froelick Gallery, June 2019

2017   Sharon Bronzan painter, Art Chat Northwest, Cynthis Mosser, August 2017

2016  “Sharon Bronzan,” Jennifer Rabin, Visual Arts, Willamette Week, vol 42/33 p. 52, 2016

2014  “Color Therapy,” Donna Pizze, Paint it, Country Collectibles #81, pp. 112-117   

2014  “Keeping Abstract Sculpture Concrete,” Drew Dakessian, Southwest Connection, p. 9

2011  Cover illustration, Out of the Woods: Meadow and Roadside Songs, Nita Countryman, Finishing Line Press, July 2011

2011  “Pull up a chair,” Bridget A. Otto, Homes and Gardens of the Northwest, The Oregonian, March 31, 2011, p. 3

2011  “Personal Touch,” Bridget A. Otto, Homes and Gardens of the Northwest, The Oregonian, Volume 0811, Issue 3, pp. 8-10  

2011  Art on the Hill-Works from the OHSU Collection, The Marquam Hill Art Committee, published by Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR            

2004  “Oregon Artist: Sharon Bronzan at Marghitta Feldman Gallery,” Artweek, July/August 2004, vol. 35, issue 6

2003 “Landscapes, Sculpture at Margo Jacobsen,” The Oregonian, March 16, 2003 

2001  George Johanson – Equivalents, Portraits of Eighty Oregon Artists, published by the Portland Art Museum, p. 103

1997-99 Illustrator, Quality Classics, Seattle, WA

1986-96 Illustrator, Fabric Art, Portland, OR

1995  Cover illustration, The Downtowner, Portland, OR

1992  Poster illustration, Art Beat, Portland Community College, Portland, OR

1990  Illustration, Mississippi Mud, Portland, OR

1989  Cover illustration, Clinton Street Quarterly, Portland, OR

1989  Illustrations, Northwest Magazine, The Oregonian, Portland, OR

1987  Book cover illustration, Phoenix Rising, written by William Siverly, published by Opus 2 Publications

1986  Record album cover illustration and design, Nervous in Suburbia, Crazy 8’s, Portland, OR

1984  Book cover illustration, Pheasant Flower, written by Sandra McPherson, published by Owl Creek Press, Missoula, MT

 

 

HONORS

 

1999 Award of Accommodation presented by Portland Community College Board of Directors, Portland, OR

1996 National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Excellence Award  for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning, University of Texas, Austin, TX

1996 Portland Community College Foundation/US Bank Faculty Excellence Award, Portland, OR

1985 Second Place Award, Oregon Art Annual, Oregon State Fair, Salem, OR

1970-72 Hatti Strong Foundation Grant, Washington, D.C.                    

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

         

2003 Instructor, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR

1973-99 Full-time Painting and Drawing Instructor, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus, Portland, OR 

1993-97 Art Department Chair, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Portland Community College, Sylvania Campus, Portland, OR 

1991 Instructor, Creative Arts Community, Menucha, OR