Biography

Born:	Lahore, Pakistan (Kashmir)

Education:
1955	BA, Social Studies, Kings College, Durham University, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
1962	Diploma in Architecture, RIBA, Hammersmith College of Art and Building, London, England

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2004	"Encounters: Recent Work", Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
1994	"New Works: Painting & Sculpture", Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
1993	"Abstractions", O Street Studio, Washington, DC
1990	"Edge of Elsewhere: Paintings and Sculptures", Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC.
1989	"Paintings and Etched Glass",Capital Gallery, Cap. Center, Landover, MD
1988	"Painting and Etched Glass", Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC.
1985	"A Dream of Five Suns: Paintings", Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC.
1972	"Paintings", Gallery 210, Fifth Avenue, New York, NY.

SELECTED TWO PERSON and GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2002	"Abstraction: An Invitational Exhibition: Cheonae Kim, Kathleen Kucka and Sheila Rotner",
		Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC.
2001	"New Work: Sheila Rotner and Mike Anthony", Maryland College of Art and Design,
		Silver Spring, MD.
1999	"Becoming Unbecoming/ Formandose Deformandose", with Ana Stella, paintings, sculptures,
		installations and video installation, Shenandoah Art Center, Waynesboro, VA.
1997	"Becoming Unbecoming/ Formandose Deformandose", with Ana Stella, paintings, sculptures,
		installations and video installation, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC.
1996	"Elements of Place - Interstices of Time", with Elizabeth Ash, paintings, photographs,
		etched glass, Guildhall Gallery, Winchester, UK.
		"The Search for a Common Language", Installation at School 33 Art Center, New York, NY
1994	"STRATA", with Ana Stella, paintings, mixed media assemblages, United States Geological
		Survey, Reston, VA.
1993	"The Continuum Exhibition", M Gallery, 800 K Street NW, Washington, DC.
		"Washington Area Women Artists: Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton", House of
		Representatives, Washington, DC
1992	"Five Painters from Washington DC", Chemould Gallery, Queens Mansion, 12F Park Street,
		Calcutta, India.
1991	"At the Cross-hairs: Washington Artists in Perspective", Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY.
		"Discoveries: 1991 Open Studio", O Street Studio, Washington, DC
1989	"Coastal Exchange Show", Richmond, VA, sponsored by The Arts Council of Richmond, VA,
		juried by the Visual Arts Advisory Committee.  (Catalog)
1986	"Order", with Zinnia, installation, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC.
		"The Aesthetic Text", Area-wide juried exhibition, The New Art Center, Washington, DC
1983	"Options '83", Area-wide curated exhibition, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington,
		DC, Ed Love and Joe Shannon, curators.  (Catalog)

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Dawson, Jessica	"Three Artists of Different Stripes", Galleries, The Washington Post, March 21, 02, p.  C5
Ungar, Nancy 		"Serious and not so: Rotner and Anthony at MCAD", Montgomery Gazette, Onview, November 7, 2001.
Zinnia 			"Sheila Rotner, New Work: Painting and Sculpture", Washington Review, February/March 1995
Howell, George 	"Sheila Rotner, Abstractions", Eyewash, February, 1993.
Gordon, Ellen		"Sheila Rotner, Edge of Elsewhere", Washington Review, December 1990/January1991.
Zinnia 			"Sheila Rotner: Paintings", Washington Review, April/May, 1988.
McCoy, Mary 		"Sheila Rotner/Zinnia, Order", New Art Examiner, January 1987.
Gore, Mary Jane 	"Zinnia and Sheila Rotner: Order", Washington Review, February/March, 1987.