Works available Artmobia.com
Solo & 2-Person Exhibitions
Upcoming: Sheila Lanham: Cairn and Colossal, Mary G. Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden, AL September 18 - December 31, 2026
Sheila Lanham and Margot Spindelman, virtual, Gibson Contemporary, NY, NY 2023
Sheila Lanham: World View series, virtual, Gibson Contemporary, NY, NY 2022
Group Exhibitions
Over-Compression, Rockella Space, Ridgewood, NY 2024
Blind Date, Supermoon Art Space, ROS Pop-Up, Ridgewood, NY 2024
ROS, Lorimoto Gallery, ROS Pop-Up, Ridgewood, NY 2024
Ego, Incubator Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2023
ROS Kickoff, Lorimoto Gallery, Ridgewood, New York, NY 2019
Unextinguished: The Episodic Landscape, SRO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2019
Nation IV, Through the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2016
Last Dance @ The Old Gem, benefit Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY 2015
NYC Salon: A Weekend at the Old Gem, Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY 2015
Sideshow Nation III, Circle the Wagons, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2015
The Last Brucenial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, 837 Washington St., NY, NY 2015
Sideshow Nation II, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2014
Mapping Correspondence: Mail Art in the 21st Century, Center for Book Arts, NY, NY 2008
Collage, GCCA Mountaintop Gallery, Windham, NY 1994
Drop Dead Painting, 103 Reade Street, New York, NY (curator: John Ford) 1994
Monochromatic Drawings, GCCA Mountaintop Gallery, Windham, NY 1993
Sheila Lanham: Recent Works, Club U.S.A., New York, NY 1993
Art for Everyone, Club U.S.A., New York, NY 1993
Salon of the Mating Spiders, Herron-Test Site Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 1992
1.5 Show, Muranushi Lederman Productions New York, NY, 148 Gallery 1992
Fate of the Earth, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY 1992
O.I.A. Salon, Tribeca 148 Gallery, NY, NY (Organization of Independent Artists) 1991
New Generation, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 1991
Education
Maryland Institute College of Art, Panting Major 1984-87
School of Visual Arts, NYC 1979-80
New School for Social Research, 1978-79
Grants/Residencies/Awards
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant 2020
NYFA/Golden Studio Supply Award 2020
Vermont Studio Center 1992
SACI (Studio Art Centers International), Florence, Italy 1986
AICA Independent Studio/Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program. New York, NY 1986
Dean’s List, MICA, 1984-87
Reba Stewart Memorial Merit Scholarship
Baltimore Mayoral Scholarships
Francis Burns Harvey Memorial Merit Scholarship
Interviews
Rockella Space interview by Santina Amato 2023
The Merida Review, literary ezine, Yucatan, MX January, 2013
El Diario de Yucatan, MX January, 2013
Social Media Featured
The Artist in the Studio, @theartistinthestudio
A View from the Easel, Hyperallergic
Mockingbird Thoughts blog by Steve Gibson
Poetry
Former Founder and Director of U.S. Poets in Mexico, a literary organization that offered one-week poetry workshops, lectures, cultural excursions, and free public readings at cultural institutions in Merida, Oaxaca and Tulum, Mexico. USPiM introduced and promoted American and Mexican poets, offered scholarships to local Mexican poets, and encouraged translation projects from 2009-2019.
Publications
Smoke Shadows, Finishing Line Press, 2013
Gathering Voices: An Anthology of Baltimore Poets, Dolphin Moon/7th Son/Tropos Press (Eds. David Beaudouin, James Taylor, Afaa Michael Weaver) 1985
Baltimore Blues & Greens, Self-Service Press, NY, cover art: Larry Rivers 1978
Other Publications
The Merida Review
LiveMag
Exquisite Corpse, New Orleans, LA
The Pearl, Baltimore, MD, co-editor with David Beaudouin - Interviews with Roy Lichtenstein and Grace Hartigan, poems
Readings
LaMama, New York, NY
CLWNWR Reading Series @ SafeT Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Painting Center, New York, NY
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Recipient: Baltimore ARTSCAPE Literary Reading
The Kitchen, New York, NY
Poetry Project (Maryland Writers Council), Baltimore, MD and other venues