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     Since 2000
     Before 2000

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Full Biography

​Sidney Lawrence (b. 1948) is a Washington DC-based painter, ink draftsman and mixed-media artist of figures, personal narratives and cityscapes.  Born in San Francisco and educated at the Berkeley and Davis campuses of the University of California (a BA and MA in art history, plus studio courses), he moved to the Capital in 1975 and started exhibiting his work in the early 1980s.  

Some 50 individuals and entities own Lawrence’s autobiographical reliefs, portraits, drawings and prints, among them longtime Washington Post art critic Paul Richard, National Endowment for the Humanities head Jim Leach, Lerner Enterprises in Rockville, Maryland, Longwood University Art Center in Farmville, Virginia, Wall’s Barbershop near the White House, the Georgetown Public Library, Door Store founder Norman Tolkan (six works) and numerous other collectors and institutions locally and in New York, the Boston area, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Milan, Genoa, Stockholm, Copenhagen, northern Denmark, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Sydney and Melbourne. 

In addition to his activity as an artist, Lawrence is an art writer and jazz vocalist. He was the Hirshhorn Museum’s public information officer from 1975 to 2003 and also curated a number of exhibitions there.