Sharon Horvath grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to NYC when she was 17, receiving a BFA from the Cooper Union and a MFA from Tyler School of Art. She lived abroad in Rome and Amsterdam and currently has studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Andes, NY. Horvath is Professor and Chair of Art in Painting and Drawing at Purchase College, SUNY and was inducted into the National Academy Museum in 2016. Horvath received a Fulbright Research Fellowship to India in 2013-14.

Other distinctions include a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, the Anonymous was a Woman award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Painting, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, a Prize for Painting from the National Academy Museum, a Mid-Atlantic NEA Regional Fellowship, an Elizabeth Foundation Grant for Painting. Horvath exhibits with Victoria Munroe Fine Art, NYC, Pierogi Gallery, NYC and Bookstein Projects, NYC, where her recent exhibition “Small Myriad” was shown in 2024.