Sharon Kaitz

Artist Bio Artist Work

Sharon Kaitz is a Boston artist who has shown in the United States and internationally since 1981. Her paintings are in the permanent collections of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, in corporate collections of General Cinema, Fidelity, the Bank of America, Karas and Karas Glass, and private collections of writer/director David Mamet, actress Felicity Huffman, There Designs, and I.C.A. Boston Director Jill Medvedow.

Kaitz designed and painted the set of David Mamet's play BOSTON MARRIAGE, which premiered at A.R.T. in Cambridge MA. The set was favorably reviewed in The New York Times. She has also collaborated with Mamet on his film OLEANNA.

Sharon Kaitz's exhibitions have been reviewed in ArtNews, Art New England, House and Garden, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, New England Homes and The New York Times, the 2010 New American Paintings #86. Her first solo show at Clark Gallery was in November 2008.

She holds a BA from Goddard College and MFA from Pratt Institute. She has taught drawing and painting at The Boston Museum School, Emerson College, Northeastern University, UMass Boston and The Bezalel School of Art in Jerusalem.

Sharon's paintings create a universe of lists, shapes, words and letters; a visual vocabulary of notations, sounds, colors, aromas and thoughts. Her forms arise from the essential needs, both material and emotional, of everyday life. Kaitz's work is rich in symbolic references that resonate with deep psychological and emotional intensity.