Lincoln Sharp was born in Sydney (Australia) and received his first ballet lessons at the Academy Ballet in Sydney. Three years later he attended the Tanya Pearson Academy Sydney. In 2018 he won the RAD Martin Rubinstein Award at the Isobel Anderson Awards. One year later he won the Lady Mollie Askin Ballet Scholarship at the Sydney Eisteddfod Ballet Scholarship. In the same year he was a finalist at the Isobel Anderson Memorial Award and won the prize „Runner up“. In 2020 he took part in the Prix de Lausanne.

In 2020 he came to Stuttgart to attend the John Cranko School, where he continued his ballet education and from which he graduated in 2022.

During the 2022/23 season Lincoln Sharp is an apprentice with the Stuttgart Ballet.