Sharon Lockhart is a Los Angeles-based photographer and filmmaker whose work draws on and extends the strain of Western visual culture characterized by precise, contemplative observation of the everyday, from Northern European paintings by Vermeer and Friedrich to the structuralist and ethnographic cinema of Michael Snow and Jean Rouch.

Known for her directorial style of location scouting and obsessively realized mise-en-scènes, the artist displays a bravura talent for atmospheric and psychological effects, redolent with mystery, that both provoke and frustrate the viewer's desire for narrative resolution. 

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2019
Sharon Lockhart: Movements and Variations, neugerriemschneider gallery, Berlin
Sharon Lockhart: Rudzienko, Contemporary ArtCentre, Vilnius, Lithuania

2018
Sharon Lockhart: Movements and Variations. Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
An American City, FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Clevland, OH
Sharon Lockhart: Movements and Variations. Fondazione Fotografia Modena, MATA Ex Manifaturra Tabacchi, Modena, Italy

2017
Sharon Lockhart, Meus Pequenos Amores / My Little Loves, Museu Coleção Berardo,
Lisbon, Portugal
Sharon Lockhart, Little Review, La Biennale Di Venezia, 57, Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Polish Pavillion, Venice, Italy

2016
Sharon Lockhart Rudzienko, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada
Sharon Lockhart, The Artist’s Institute, New York
Sharon Lockhart, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Sharon Lockhart, The Arts Club, Chicago
Sharon Lockhart/Noa Eshkol, The Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2015
Sharon Lockhart: MILENA MILENA, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Sharon Lockhart, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Sharon Lockhart: Milena, Milena, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Flash: Sharon Lockhart, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside

2014
Milena, Milena, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm

2013
Body Talk, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
MILENA, MILENA, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm

2012
Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol, The Jewish Museum, New York
Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Augarten, Vienna
Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Sharon Lockhart: Double Tide, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain
Podwórka, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, Belgium

2011
Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol, CCA, Tel Aviv
Podwórka, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Sharon Lockhart, Gió Marconi, Milan
Lunch Break, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Beginning of Time: Palaeological Finds from the Repolust Cave, Graz Archeology Museum, 2011-present (permanent installation)

2010
Podwórka, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Podwórka, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Lunch Break, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis; Colby Art Museum, Waterville, ME
Sharon Lockhart: Double Tide, Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium.

2009
Lunch Break, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Lunch Break, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Lunch Break, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Pine Flat Portrait Studio, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2008
Sharon Lockhart, Kunstverein, Hamburg
Lunch Break, Secession, Vienna

2006
Pine Flat, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
Pine Flat, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Pine Flat Portrait Studio, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Pine Flat, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Pine Flat Portrait Studio, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Pine Flat, Museo do Chiado, Lisbon

2005
Gió Marconi, Milan
Pine Flat, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
Sharon Lockhart, Martine Aboucaya, Paris

2004
No-no Ikebana, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

2003
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

2001
Sharon Lockhart: Interview Locations/Family Photographs, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica
Sharon Lockhart, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Sharon Lockhart: Museums and People, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle

2000
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Sharon Lockhart: Interview Locations/Family Photographs, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Galerie im MAK, Vienna
Teatro Amazonas, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
Kunsthalle Zürich, Swizerland; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Teatro Amazonas, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo