Jasper Sharp

Jasper Sharp (born 1975 in Hampshire, England) is an art historian and curator. He completed his undergraduate studies in Edinburgh and London, and has lived in Vienna since 2006, where he is the Adjunct Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Between 1999 and 2005 Jasper Sharp worked at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, where he was responsible for the museum‘s special exhibitions programme and permanent collection displays, and the production of large-scale contemporary art projects both at the museum and at the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. He also conducted extensive research into the formation of Peggy Guggenheim’s collection and the history of her New York museumgallery Art of This Century.

He has lived in Vienna since 2006, working initially as a curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, and then as an independent curator and writer. Since January 2011 he has held the position of Adjunct Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, for whom he has developed exhibition projects with artists including Ed Ruscha, Lucian Freud, Richard Wright and Joseph Cornell.

Sharp is an advisor to the Outset Contemporary Art Fund, curator of the talks programme at Frieze Masters, London, and a member of the advisory board of the Sammlung Lenikus which provides studio residencies in Vienna for Austrian and international artists.