Awards and Prizes

2012 Joan Mitchell Foundation painters and sculptors grant program nominee

2011 Skowhegan-School of Visual Arts Matching Grant

2011 MFA Fine arts assistantship award, School of Visual Arts, NY

2004 Sharet foundation scholarship award for painting- America-Israel culture Foundation, Tel Aviv.

2003 The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel foundation endowment fund , Jerusalem.

Selected Exhibitions

2012 Dustcatcher, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv

2012 "Queens International Biennial" , Queens Museum of Art, NY

2011 "Fragmentation", Stephen Stoyanov Gallery, NY, Curated by Dan Cameron

2011 "Reformation", Skowhegan school of Painting and Sculpture- Church and Jail show, ME

2011 "All things fall apart", Visual Arts Gallery, NY, Curated by Asya Geisberg

2011 "Exit", MFA Fine arts Thesis Show, Visual Arts Gallery, NY, Curated by Matt Moravec

2009 "Urban", Stern Gallery, Tel Aviv

2007- "sensi 6" a benefit auction for meir panim hosted by Simon de Pury of Phillips, Pury & company , New York

2005 - " Artic 7" , The Sharet, America-Israel culture foundation, Ramat Gan Museum


Bibliography
http://www.artslant.com/ny/articles/show/30940, Emily Weiner "Spaceships, Pirates, Painters: Meet Sharona Eliassaf", ArtSlant, June 2012

http://queensinternational.org/2012/index.php?/artists/sharona-eliassaf/ , Larissa Harris,Jamillah James ,Manuela Moscoso , Queens International Curators essay and interview, Queens Museum of Art Catalog, February 2012

http://www.artreview.com/profiles/blogs/june-members-roundup-the-best/, Hannah Simons "June member's roundup - the best of the network", Art Review, June 2010 … Read More

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME 2011
School of Visual Arts, New York, MFA 2011
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design,Jerusalem BFA 2004