Marshall Sharpe

Marshall Sharpe, born in 1988, is from Greensboro, NC. He received his BA in Studio Art from Elon University in 2010 and his MFA in Painting from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2020. Sharpe is an Associate Professor of Art and the Director of the Jones Art Gallery at Bakersfield College, where he teaches painting and drawing courses.  His creative work focuses on ancestry, identity, and transience.

He has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions at the New York City Phoenix Art Collective, UCSB’s Glassbox Gallery, and the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art in Gyeonggi-do, Korea.  The work has also been included in invitational and juried exhibitions at the Art Design and Architecture Museum, CA, The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, the Woodbury Museum in Orem, Utah, California State University Long Beach, California State Channel Islands, Elon University, and the Honolulu Museum of Art School. His work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Hawaii Public Radio, Lum Art Magazine, and the Santa Barbara Independent.

Instagram: @marshall_sharpe