____Selected exhibitions

• The Heritage Bank Gallery, San Jose, 2002
• Nature Re-bound, Palo Alto, California, 2000
  
• What Is Art For?, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, 1999
• The Permanent Collection 1997: Recent Acquisitions, San Jose Museum of Art, California
  
• In the Spirit of Nature, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, 1994
  
• Awards Finalists Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, 1994
  
• All-California Juried Exhibition, San Diego Museum of Art, 1993

Sharon Chinen was born on Maui, Hawai‘i. She holds a MFA from San Jose State University, California, 1986. She was an artist-in-residence at Joshua Tree National Park, 2001, and at the Djerassi Foundation, 1987. In 1994 she received an Artist Fellowship for Sculpture from the Arts Council of Santa Clara County.