Sharon Kivland
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Dr Sharon Kivland (born 1955 in Germany) is an artist and writer living in Brittany and London.[1] She was Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University[2] and Research Associate at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research in London.[3] She has exhibited internationally since 1979 and her work was represented by Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer in Düsseldorf.[4] for many years until the gallery closed. She was a commissioning editor for the journal EROS, and now is editor and publisher of her own small press MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, based in London. In 2023 she became Visiting Professor at Kingston University, London.
Kivland has received numerous awards and grants for her work, including the Greater London Arts award (1987 and 1991), the Henry Moore Foundation exhibition award (1987), the Tower Hamlets Artists award (1987), The Elephant Trust publication award (1988), the British School at Rome award in Sculpture (1990), a Canadian Council research award (1991), the Harmstone Bequest from Sheffield City Council (1993), and more.[5] She has also undertaken numerous prestigious residencies, including ones at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada (1989), Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada (1996), Cité des Arts Internationale, Paris (1997) and the Second International Artists Village, Sri Lanka (1998).
Academic work and research
Transmission
As Reader in Fine Art and Principal Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, Kivland has developed the long-running lecture series and research project Transmission, alongside colleagues Lesley Sanderson (2001–2004) and Jaspar Joseph-Lester (2004 onwards). The lecture series is a collaboration between the Art and Design Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, and Site Gallery, Sheffield. The project has produced over ten years of lectures, symposia, related publications, a set of prints, and recently a series of annuals, beginning in 2010 with Transmission Annual: HOSPITALITY and continuing with 2012's Transmission Annual: PROVOCATION. In 2010, the Transmission: HOSPITALITY conference was held at Sheffield Hallam University, where keynote speakers included Clegg and Guttmann (Artists, Germany), Juliet Flower MacCannell (Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and English, UC Irvine) Ahuvia Kahane (Professor of Greek, Royal Holloway, University of London), Esther Leslie (Professor in Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London) Dany Nobus (Professor, School of Social Sciences, Brunel, University West London), and Blake Stimson (Professor of Art History, University of California).[6]
Exhibitions
Kivland has exhibited widely in Europe and North America. Recent solo exhibitions include: Entreprise de séduction (Espace d'art contemporain HEC, Jouy-en-Josas, in association with the musée de la toile de Jouy, 2018; The Natural Forms, Part II (HGB, Leipzig, 2016); The Natural Forms, Part II (Kunstverein-Tiergarten Berlin, 2015-16; Natürliche Formen – Von Frauen, Füchsen und Lesern (Dieselkraftwerkmuseum, Cottbus, 2015); Folles de leur corps / Crazy about their bodies (after a footnote in Marx's Capital), CGP, London, UK (2014). Sharon Kivland. Amateur and Collector, curated by Sotiris Kyriacou at Ideas Store Whitechapel, London (2012), I am sick of my thoughts, DomoBaal, London (2011), Mes plus belles, Le Sphinx. Paris, (2010), A Wind of Revolution Blows, the Storm is on the Horizon, Chelsea Space, London (2008), Mon abécédaire, Sleeper, Edinburgh (2008), and Natural Education, Bast'art, Bratislava (2008).[7]
