One-person
University Art Museum, State University of New York at Binghamton, March 11-April 10, and Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, June 21-October 2, 1994. Review: Art in America, March 1995 (Barbara Guest).
Art Galaxy (Barbara Flynn), Mott Street, New York, NY, March 14-27, 1981. Review: Art World, March 1981(S.J.); Profile: Gallery Guide, March 1981(Mary Smith).
Livingstone-Learmouth Gallery, 178 East 72nd Street, New York, NY, February 8- March 22, 1975. Reviews: New York Times, February 26, 1975 (John Russell); Village Voice, March 3, 1975 (three stars, Alexandra Anderson).
Dwight Memorial Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, April 16 -May 4, 1969. Review: Mount Holyoke College News, April 24, 1969.
La Galerie Lucian Durand, 19 rue Mazarine, Paris 6e, June 9-July 8, 1967. Review: International Herald Tribune, June 15, 1967 (John Ashbery).
La Galerie Lefranc (winner, le prix LeFranc, nationwide competition for painters under 30), 15 rue de la Ville-l’Eveque, Paris 8e, March 4-March 24, 1965. Reviews: International Herald Tribune, March 9, 1965 (John Ashbery); Les lettres françaises, March 1965 (M.-T. Maugis).
The Gallery (Roy Lindquist), Steinstrasse 15, Kaiserslautern, Germany, May 31-June 29, 1963. Review: Die Zeit/Rheinpfalz, Frankfort, June 7, 1963 (K. Geigel).
Selected group
AbExRedux: Three New Directions in Abstract Painting. The Local, Long Island City, NY, April 3-27, 2016.
G.W. Einstein Gallery, 591 Broadway, New York, NY, December 1-22, 1995.
“Color, Light and Image,” Women’s Inter-art Center, 549 West 52nd Street, New York, NY, July 1975.
“New Talent,” Sachs Gallery, West 57th Street, New York, NY, June 5-26, 1973. Review: The Nation, June 25, 1973 (Lawrence Alloway).
Biennale de Menton, Invitational international exhibition. Menton, France, June 1968. (On the invitation of Michel Seuphor, art critic).
U.S.A. Groupe ’67, Invitational traveling exhibition of American artists in the museums of Avignon, Besançon, Montpellier, Nancy, and Sainte-Etiènne, and the cultural centers of Amièns, Bourges, and le Havre, France, spring-summer 1967.
Trois Peintres, Galerie Lutèce, Paris, June-July, 1966. Review: Les lettres françaises, June 29/July 4, 1966 (J-J. Lévèque).
Chateau de la Saraz. Prix international de peinture: 25 peintres. 5 pays. Le chateau de la Saraz, 9 chemin des Noisetiers, 1000 Lausanne, Switzerland (representing France on the invitation of Michel Seuphor, art critic, Paris), June 6-September 26, 1965.
“Four American Artists,” Galerie 65 (The American Church in Paris & The American College in Paris), 65, quai d’Orsay, Paris, May 14-June 2, 1964.
“Seven Americans of Paris,” American Cultural Center, rue du Dragon, Paris (on the invitation of Dorthea Speyer, Cultural Officer, United States Embassy in Paris), November 24-December 15, 1962. Reviews: le Monde, November 29, 1962 (Michel Lacoste [M.C.L.]); International Herald Tribune, December 12, 1962 (John Ashbery).
“Paris-New York,” Galerie des quartre saisons, Paris (on the invitation of John Ashbery, critic, the International Herald Tribune), October-November, 1962. Reviewed by Ashbery in the Tribune, November 9, 1962.
Forces nouvelles. International Students’ and Artists’ Center, 261 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (on the invitation of Michel Lacoste, art critic, le Monde), September 1962. Reviewed by Lacoste (M.C.L.) in le Monde, September 28, 1962.
Selected bibliography
Lynn Gamwell, Lyrical Landscapes, brochure for the exhibition of works on paper by Beryl Barr-Sharrar at the University Art Museum, State University of New York at Binghamton and the Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, l994.
Michel Seuphor, catalogue introduction for Beryl Barr-Sharrar exhibition, La Galerie Lucian Durand, 19 rue Mazarine, Paris 6e, June 9-July 8, 1967.
John Ashbery, “American Artists’ Sanctuary in Paris,” in Reported Sightings. Collected Writings on Art (Harvard University Press, 1991), pp. 87-97. (Originally published in the Art News Annual, 1966.)
Eleanor Spencer, “Maryland Artist Acclaimed in Paris,” The Baltimore Sun: Sunday Magazine, June 20, 1965.
Collections
Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; California Federal Savings and Loan Association, Los Angeles; Mount Holyoke College Museum, South Hadley, MA. Private collections in New York City, Poughkeepsie and Rochester, NY; Trenton and Ridgewood, NJ; Baltimore, MD; Chicago and Bloomington IL; Haverford, PA; Fort Worth, TX; Miami, FLA; Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA, and other cities in the U.S., as well as Athens, Thessaloniki, Paris, London, Geneva, Cologne, Frankfort, Wiesbaden, Mainz-am-Rhein, and Munich.