Sharon Lockhart (born 1964) is an American artist whose work considers social subjects primarily through motion film and still photography, often engaging with communities to create work as part of long-term projects. She received her BFA from the
San Francisco Art Institute
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in 1991 and her MFA from
Art Center College of Design
Art Center College of Design (stylized as ArtCenter College of Design) is a private art college in Pasadena, California.
History
ArtCenter College of Design was founded in 1930 in downtown Los Angeles as the Art Center School.
In 1935, Fred R. ...
in 1993. She has been a
Radcliffe fellow, a
Guggenheim fellow
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, and a
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fellow. Her films and photographic work have been widely exhibited at international film festivals and in museums, cultural institutions, and galleries around the world. She was an associate professor at the
University of Southern California's Roski School of Fine Arts, resigning from the school in August 2015 in response to the continued administrative turmoil at Roski to take a position at the
California Institute for the Arts.
Lockhart lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Work
''Goshogaoka Girls Basketball Team'' (1998)
For ''Goshogaoka Girls Basketball Team'', a series of 12 photographs,
[Sharon Lockhart, March 6 - April 4, 1998](_blank)
Petzel Gallery, New York. Lockhart turned to images of a girls' basketball team at a school in the Tokyo suburb of Goshogaoka, mimicking the style of the professional athlete's publicity still. The images were made in conjunction with the artist's first film, ''Goshogaoka'', of the team executing elaborate (actually choreographed) practice drills. Whereas the camera in ''Goshogaoka'' remains fixed in one place the entire film, the viewpoint is constantly changing in ''Goshogaoka Girls Basketball Team'', creating visual movement around the gym as well as around the players.
''Teatro Amazonas'' (1999)
In ''Teatro Amazonas'' (1999), an audience seated in the
neoclassical opera house of the same name in
Manaus
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,
Brazil
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, looks back at the camera and the viewer throughout the duration of the film. Photographed from a stationary camera positioned on the stage at the front of the theater, one unedited take shows the audience listening to a live performance by the Choral do Amazonas choir. The musical score, an original choral composition written by Californian composer Becky Allen, begins with a solid chordal mass which gradually becomes silent over twenty-four minutes. As the sound of the choir diminishes, the audience sound rises.
''NŌ'' (2003)
In 2003, Lockhart returned to Japan to create a series of works with local farmers. Her film ''NŌ'', created in conjunction with a movement coordinator, depicts two farmers as they cover a field in hay. Throughout the duration of the film, they move incrementally closer to the fixed-frame camera, eventually returning to the back of the now hay-covered farmland. This project also includes the No-No Ikebana series of works. In these, the artist photographed the life cycles of plants arranged according to the Japanese art of
ikebana
is the Japanese art of flower arrangement. It is also known as . The tradition dates back to Heian period, when floral offerings were made at altars. Later, flower arrangements were instead used to adorn the (alcove) of a traditional Japan ...
over 31 days.
''Duane Hanson'' works
In a monumental four-part photographic work of 2003, Lockhart pays homage to
Duane Hanson
Duane Hanson (January 17, 1925 – January 6, 1996) was an American artist and sculptor born in Minnesota. He spent most of his career in South Florida. He was known for his life-sized realistic sculptures of people. He cast the works based o ...
’s monumental sculpture ''Lunch Break'' (1989). The sculpture depicts three construction workers taking their lunch among the scaffolding and ladders from which they have descended, while the photographs depict two museum preparators installing the work. A large-scale diptych, ''Maja and Elodie'', depicts a woman interacting with Hanson's more intimate sculpture, ''Child with Puzzle'' (1978). The sculpture represents a girl sitting on a rug making a jigsaw puzzle, which Lockhart photographs with the young woman sitting across from the sculpture.
''Pine Flat'' (2006)
Set in the backdrop of a rural village in California's
Sierra Nevada Mountains
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, the feature-length 16mm film ''Pine Flat'' (2006) and large-scale portraits focus on the community's youth and the experience of American childhood. For the series of nineteen portrait photographs of Pine Flat's youth, Lockhart set up a traditional studio in a nearby barn, where the children could sit in the historic method. In preparation for each photograph, Lockhart took Polaroids so that each of her subjects could have some say about the way he or she would be portrayed. Lockhart asked the Los Angeles architecture firm Escher GuneWardena to design her series of ''Pine Flat'' exhibitions.
''Lunch Break'' (2008)
In the installation ''Lunch Break'' (2008), designed in collaboration with architects Escher Gunewardena, a single tracking shot slowly slides down a locker-filled corridor where ironworkers at a Maine shipyard eat their lunch
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Gladstone Gallery, New York. (teasing the 11-minute event into 83 minutes of film). The soundtrack, designed in collaboration with composer Becky Allen and filmmaker James Benning, weaves the diegetic tones created by worker's voices with industrial sounds and music. In a series of accompanying photographs, Lockhart depicts the workers interacting with each other, including a series of independent business run by the ironworkers catering to their coworkers. Finally eighteen more formalized still-lives of the workers’ lunch boxes serve as portraits of their owners—in each case, the worker is both framed by and frames the work place.
''Podwórka'' (2009)
In 2009, Lockhart created ''Podwórka''. Shot in the courtyards of
Łódź
Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti ...
,
Poland
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, this film depicts children at play. In a series of filmic tableaux, Lockhart uses a fixed-frame camera to capture the improvisational, impromptu games that these children devise, shaping a visual testament to youthful resourcefulness.
''Sharon Lockhart/Noa Eshkol'' (2011)
A series of Lockhart's works from 2011 are based on the dances created by Israeli artist, choreographer and dance theorist Noa Eshkol (1924-2007). Lockhart discovered Eshkol's work as both a textile artist, dance composer, and movement notation pioneer on a research trip sponsored by the
Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles’s Tel Aviv-Los Angeles Partnership. For her films ''Five Dances and Nine Wall Carpets by Noa Eshkol'' and ''Four Exercises in Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation'' (both 2011), Lockhart collaborated with dancers from the Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group – a group of dancers, some of which worked with Eshkol herself – to document Eshkol's compositions on film. This project also consists of a series of works for which Lockhart photographed the spheres devised by Noa Eshkol and Israeli architect and professor Avraham Wachman to document and record movement as part of their system of
Eshkol-Wachman movement notation.
''Rudzienko'' and further work in Poland (2013-ongoing)
Returning to Poland, Lockhart began to collaborate with Milena – a young woman who she befriended in Łódź during the production of ''Podwórka'' and had since stayed in contact with. This collaboration resulted in the production of a series of photographs as well as the film ''Antoine/Milena'' (2015) in which Milena reenacts the iconic final scene from
François Truffaut
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's ''
The 400 Blows
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''. Through this collaboration, Lockhart was introduced to the residents of the Youth Center for Sociotherapy in
Rudzienko, Poland – the state-run institution for girls where Milena lived. Over the course of three summers, Lockhart, together with movement therapists, philosophers, theater directors, and pedagogues, would conduct a series of generative workshops with the girls of the Center. From this collaboration Lockhart created her film ''Rudzienko'' (2016), which had its cinematic premiere at the
67th Berlin International Film Festival
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in 2017.
In 2016, Lockhart was selected to represent Poland at the 57th International Art Exhibition at the
Venice Biennale
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, set to take place the following year. For her project in the Polish Pavilion, Lockhart created a multi-part presentation consisting of a filmic installation and a series of photographs created with the residents of Rudzienko. The presentation was complemented by a new series of workshops at the Centre as well as the first ever English-language translations of Mały Przegląd (Little Review) – a newspaper insert published weekly in Poland from 1926 to 1939 and distributed with the Jewish newspaper
Nasz Przegląd (Our Review). An initiative of educator, pedagogue, author, pediatrician, and children's rights activist
Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish educator, children's author and pedagogue known as ''Pan Doktor'' ("Mr. Doctor") or ''Stary Doktor'' ("Old Doctor"). After spending ma ...
, Mały Przegląd exclusively featured articles written and edited by children.
Exhibitions
Lockhart had solo exhibitions at international venues including
Wiener Secession
The Vienna Secession (german: Wiener Secession; also known as ''the Union of Austrian Artists'', or ''Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs'') is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austri ...
, Austria;
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, t ...
, Minneapolis;
Fogg Museum
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at
Harvard University
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, Cambridge; Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain;
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It is located at ...
, Rotterdam;
Kunsthalle Zürich
The Kunsthalle Zürich is a contemporary art exhibition centre in Zurich, Switzerland. It is located on Limmatstrasse, near the city centre. A number of temporary exhibitions are organized each year.
In 2014 Daniel Baumann replaced Beatrix Ruf ...
;
Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art (often abbreviated to MCA, MoCA or MOCA) may refer to:
Africa
* Museum of Contemporary Art (Tangier), Morocco, officially le Galerie d'Art Contemporain Mohamed Drissi
Asia East Asia
* Museum of Contemporary Art Shangha ...
, Chicago;
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is an art museum in central Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, opened 1994. It presents modern and contemporary art and is financed by the ''Kunststiftung Volkswagen.''
It takes up aspects of the industrial city of Wolfsburg, whic ...
, Germany, and MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. Her films have been included in the New York Film Festival,
Vienna International Film Festival
The Vienna International Film Festival, or Viennale, is a film festival taking place every October since 1960 in Vienna, Austria.
The average number of visitors is about 75,000. Traditional cinema venues are ''Gartenbaukino'', ''Urania'', ''Metro ...
,
Berlin Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...
, and the
Sundance Film Festival
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, where ''Lunch Break'' and ''Exit'' were selected in 2009. The ''Lunch Break'' exhibition debuted at the Wiener Secession in November, 2008 and was later exhibited at
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
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, Saint Louis, and the
Colby College Museum of Art
The Colby College Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Founded in 1959 and now comprising five wings, nearly 8,000 works and more than 38,000 square feet of exhibition space, the Colby Colleg ...
, Maine.
Lockhart and her work in Poland were the subject of a trilogy of successive exhibitions at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle,
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
(2013), Bonniers Konsthall,
Stockholm
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(2014), and Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne (2015).
The artist is represented by neugerriemschneider, Berlin and Gladstone Gallery, New York/Brussels.
Collections
Lockhart's work is represented in numerous important collections, including the
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly known as the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, is an art museum at 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, New York, in Delaware Park. the museum's Elmwood Avenue campus is temporarily closed for construction. It hosted e ...
, Buffalo;
Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 mill ...
, Chicago;
Carnegie Museum of Art
The Carnegie Museum of Art, is an art museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally known as the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute and was at what is now the Main Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsbur ...
, Pittsburgh;
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles;
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously exp ...
, New York;
Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...
, Los Angeles;
Henry Art Gallery
The Henry Art Gallery ("The Henry") is a contemporary art museum located on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Washington. Located on the west edge of the university's campus along 15th Avenue N.E. in the University District, it wa ...
, Seattle;
Israel Museum
The Israel Museum ( he, מוזיאון ישראל, ''Muze'on Yisrael'') is an art and archaeological museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world’s leading encyclopa ...
, Jerusalem;
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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, Los Angeles;
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
, New York;
Milwaukee Art Museum
The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is an art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its collection contains nearly 25,000 works of art.
Location and Visit
Located on the lakefront of Lake Michigan, the Milwaukee Art Museum is one of the largest art museu ...
, Milwaukee;
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It is located at ...
, Rotterdam;
Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art (often abbreviated to MCA, MoCA or MOCA) may refer to:
Africa
* Museum of Contemporary Art (Tangier), Morocco, officially le Galerie d'Art Contemporain Mohamed Drissi
Asia East Asia
* Museum of Contemporary Art Shangha ...
, Chicago;
Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art (often abbreviated to MCA, MoCA or MOCA) may refer to:
Africa
* Museum of Contemporary Art (Tangier), Morocco, officially le Galerie d'Art Contemporain Mohamed Drissi
Asia East Asia
* Museum of Contemporary Art Shangha ...
, Los Angeles;
Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art (often abbreviated to MCA, MoCA or MOCA) may refer to:
Africa
* Museum of Contemporary Art (Tangier), Morocco, officially le Galerie d'Art Contemporain Mohamed Drissi
Asia East Asia
* Museum of Contemporary Art Shangha ...
, San Diego;
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;
Saint Louis Art Museum
The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) is one of the principal U.S. art museums, with paintings, sculptures, cultural objects, and ancient masterpieces from all corners of the world. Its three-story building stands in Forest Park in St. Louis, Mi ...
, Saint Louis;
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is ...
, London;
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, t ...
, Minneapolis;
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...
, New York;
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art
The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art is a teaching museum on the campus of Hamilton College
Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was c ...
, Clinton; among others.
Recognition
Lockhart received artist-in-residence fellowships from the
DAAD, Berlin (1999), the Asian Cultural Council Grant, Ibaragi, Japan (1996) and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (1995). In 2013, she was shortlisted for the £40,000 2015 biennial Artes Mundi prize.
Shortlist for £40,00 Artes Mundi 6 prize announced
''Art Review
''ArtReview'' is an international contemporary art magazine based in London, founded in 1948. Its sister publication, ''ArtReview Asia'', was established in 2013.
History
Launched as a fortnightly broadsheet in February 1949 by a retired country ...
'', December 12, 2013.>
References
External links
The Films of Sharon Lockhart
Sharon Lockhart
at Kadist Art Foundation
Kadist is an interdisciplinary contemporary arts organization with an international contemporary art collection. In addition to being a collecting body, Kadist hosts artists residencies and produces exhibitions, publications, and public events. ...
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1961 births
Living people
American photographers
American filmmakers
American contemporary artists
Postmodern artists
Artists from California
Art in Greater Los Angeles
People from Norwood, Massachusetts
San Francisco Art Institute alumni
Art Center College of Design alumni
University of Southern California faculty
American women artists
American women photographers
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21st-century American women