Sharka Hyland
Sharka Hyland was born in 1954 in Czechoslovakia. She received her MFA (in graphic design) from Yale University School of Art in 1988, studied art history at École du Louvre, Paris in 1992, and comparative literature at Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany in 1983. Hyland is a 2015 Franz and Virginia Bader Fund Grantee for her research proposal on David Foster Wallace's writing. In the same year she won the Civitella Ranieri Visual Arts Fellowship in Umbria, Italy. Sharka Hyland has participated in exhibitions in the US and Europe. She teaches in the Fine Arts and Visual Studies departments at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Roven - books
Conversations is a monographic collection of interviews focusing on an artist's drawing practice. For this first book, Sharka Hyland answers the questions of Marcelline Delbecq, two artists whose practices converge in their interest in writing, reading, images, and language. A discussion that fosters a unique look at Sharka Hyland's work.
