Education
1967 MFA: The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1966 MS: The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1962 BS: The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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Solo Shows
2021 Shari Urquhart - Musn’t Touch: A Textile Retrospective. Exhibition in two venues: The Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art and The Warehouse Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2005 The Fuzzy Museum, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Narrative Threads, South West Center for Contemporary Crafts, San Antonio, TX
1994 Zone One Contemporary, Asheville, NC
1994 The Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY
1993 The Hand Workshop, Virginia Center for the Craft Arts, Richmond, VA
1993 Rockville Art Place, Rockville, MD
1993 Narrative Tapestries, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
1984 The Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1983 Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL
1976 Madison Art Center, Madison WI
1970 Madison Art Center, Madison WI
1970 University of Wisconsin, Janesville WI
1970 Main Gallery, Wisconsin Union, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1968 University of Illinois, Macomb, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 Interweave, Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Cazenovia, NY
2012 Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 New York Design Room, Brooklyn, NY
2006 War is Over, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Warm Worlds & Otherwise, Krasdale Corp., White Plains, NY MAY
2004 Holiday Exhibition, Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM DEC
2002 Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2001 21st Suffragettes, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2001 New Work by Gallery Artists, Germaine Keller Gallery, Garrison, NY
2000 Needle & Thread, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI
2000 Group Exhibition, Margaret Bodell Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Making Faces, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1999 Take a Notion, curated by Margaret Bodell (Margaret Bodell Gallery, Ltd.)
alternative space for textile arts at D.L.Cerney, New York, NY JUL
1999 She, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Parker, Pepper, Urquhart, Fred Valentine, Chi Meat, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Contemporary Fiber, Mary Session Porter Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
1995 Project Exhibit, Meyerhoff Gallery, The Maryland Art Institute, Baltimore, MD
1995 Thread Bare: Revealing Content in Contemporary Fiber, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1995 The Domestic Landscape, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Bad Girls! (Part II), The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1994 Judy Angus & Shari Urquhart, Zone One Contemporary, Asheville, NC
1993 Year of the Crafts: Moonelis & Urquhart, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY
1991 New Ends, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
1990 Fabrication/Revelation, Gray Art Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
1989 Fabrication/Revelation, Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
1987 Private Expressions, Stamford Museum of Art & Nature, Stamford, CT
1985 Cityscapes, Countryscapes: Redefined, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
1985 This Way, That Way, Thorpe Intermediary, Sparkhill, NY
1984 Rockefeller Visiting Artist’s Exhibition, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC
1984 Art & Ego, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
1984 Landscapes, Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984 Through the Looking Glass: Reflected Images in Contemporary Art, Hecksche Museum, Huntington, NY
1984 Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Intoxication, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Threads, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
1981 Invitational: New in New York, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Decorative Fabricators, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1979 Fiber Structures & Fabric Surfaces: An Exhibition of Works by National & International
Contemporary Artists using Fiber, Herron Gallery of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1978 “Bad” Painting, The New Museum, New York, NY JAN 14 - FEB 28 *
1978 Six Contemporary Artists, List Art Center, Kirkland College, Clinton, NY
1978 Invitational, A.I.R. Gallery, selected by Pat Lasch, New York, NY
1978 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1977 14 Women Artists, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1977 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1976 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Bicentennial Group Exhibition, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1975 University of Richmond Fine Art Center, Richmond, VA
1975 Pyramid Gallery, Washington D.C.
1975 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1974 Twentieth Century Gallery, Williamsburg, VA
1974 New Talent, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1972 Southeastern Biennial: Fourteen Women Artists, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
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Visiting Artist and Lecture
1995 Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC (artist in residence)
1990 East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
1984 Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC
1982 School 33, Baltimore, MD
1981 School 33, Baltimore, MD
1979 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1976 The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Grants and Awards
1999 New York Foundation for the Arts, fellowship, New York, NY
1993 The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship in Crafts, Baltimore, MD