Vivienne Shark LeWitt was born in Sale, Victoria in 1956. She studied at the University of Tasmania’s School of Art and Alexander Mackie College in Sydney. She started exhibiting in the late 1970s, with numerous solo shows at Anna Schwartz Gallery, the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Roslyn Oxley9 and Tolarno, Melbourne. Her work has been shown at major institutions across Australia, the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, including the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane), Museum of Modern Art (Paris) and the Guggenheim (New York). In 2023, Vivienne was exhibited as part of Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria and in 2024 in the 18th Ade-laide Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia.
Shark LeWitt’s work is held in many significant public collections, including those of the Guggenheim, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australian National Gallery, Parliament House and the universities of Melbourne, Queensland and Western Australia.