Sondra Sherman

Sonda Sherman, San Diego, U.S.A.
       
Education:
1990 Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany, Diplom Degree( MFA)
1980 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, B.F.A. Degree - Jewelry and Painting Concentrations
 
Professional Positions:
2006-San Diego State University, Associate Professor of Art-Head, Jewelry + Metalwork, San Diego, CA     
2000-06 Rhode Island College, Associate Professor, Dept. Art –Metals, Foundations
1999-00 State University of New York at New Paltz, Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. Art -  Metals
1997-99 Savannah College of Art and Design, Faculty, Foundations, Metals and Jewelry, GA
1995-97 Rhode Island School of Design,  Adjunct Faculty, Light Metals Department, Providence, RI
1996 Western Carolina University, Summer Faculty - Jewelry I + II, Cullowhee, NC
1995 Rhode Island School of Design, Guest  Instructor - 'Jewelry as Souvenir', Providence, RI
1993 Ulrich Horndash "Geometrie", Painted Installation,  Artist's Assistant , Salzburger Kunstverein, AUSTRIA
1992 Daniel Buren, Architectural Installation, Artist's Assistant, Hypo-bank Kongresszentrum, Germany
        
 
Solo / Duo Exhibitions:
2016 ‘Parallels’ :Jonathan Wahl and Sondra Sherman, Lamar Dodd Gallery, University of Georgia, USA
2016 ‘Found Subjects IV’, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX
2014 ‘Found Subjects III’ Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2012 'Found Subjects', Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA
2010 'Appellations' (with Gail Roberts), La Jolla Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA
2009 'F.T.D.s', VdV Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 ‘Anthophobia: Fear of Flowers’ SOFA Chicago, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA
2005 ‘Seven Types of Ambiguity’, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA
2002 ‘Relocating Natures’, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1999 ‘Hidden Agender’, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1997 ‘Sondra Sherman: New Work’, Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1997 'Cascades' Jewelerswerk Galerie, Washington, DC
1996 'All That's Precious' Jewelerswerk Galerie, Washington, DC
1995  'Conation / Cognition' Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

Group Exhibitions (selected):
2016 ‘Shadow Themes’, RR Gallery, curators Marjorie Simon, Biba Schutz, New York, NY
2016 ‘Lack: The Art of Surface’, Crafts Council Gallery, Munich, Germany
2015  ‘Black on Black’, Manchester Art Gallery, curator Jo Bloxham, Manchester, United Kingdom
2015 ‘From Here and There’, Burg Gebichstein, curator Daniel Kruger, Halle, Germany
2014 Unique by Design: Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneir Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
2014 ‘Writing and Objects’, Crafts Council Gallery, Munich, Germany
2013  ‘Schmuck 2013’ International Handwerksmesse, Munich, Germany
2013 ‘Allied Craftsman Today’ Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
2011 'DUBH: Dialogues in Black, American Irish Historical Society, NY
2009 'Different Tempers', Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, NC
2007 'Craft in America’ Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft , Portland OR (traveling)
2007 ‘Glasswear’ Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (traveling)
2007 ‘Edges of Grace: Provocative, Uncommon Craft’ The Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2007 ‘Challenging the Chatelaine’ DesignMuseo, Helsinki, Finland (traveling)
2007 ‘Historical Connections’, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA                
2003 ‘The Link to the Body’ 3rd Biennial of Contemporary Jewelry, Nimes, France                     
2002 ‘Schmuckszene’, International Handwerksmess, Munich, Germany
2002 ‘Schmuck 2002’ International Jewelry, The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, Scotland
2002 ‘Von Wegen’ Schmuck aus Munchen, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus,Hanau. Germany
2001 'A View By Two’ RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2001 ‘Micromegas’ BKV Gallerie, Munich, Germany
2001 ‘The Ring’ Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2001 ‘Jewelry as an Object of Installation’, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2000 ‘Five Woman in the Crafts’ Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art,
2000 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2000 ‘Marked by Media’ , Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (catalog)
2000 ‘Schonmachen’, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren GERMANY
2000 ‘A Closer Look’, James Howe Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ
1999 ‘Re-thinking Jewelry’ San  Fransisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Fransisco, CA (catalog)
1999 ‘The Shadow of Memory’, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1999 ‘Brooching It Diplomatically; A Tribute to Madeline Albright Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA,             
1999 Museum Het Kruithuis, s’Hertogenbosch, THE NETHERLANDS, Museum of   Applied Art and Design,          
1999 Helsinki, Finland, American Craft Museum, NY, The Contemporary Museum, Honolu, Hawaii (catalog)
1997 'Transfigurations1997:Nine Contemporary Metalsmiths'  The University of Akron, OH
1997 '3 Generations; Mentors, Teachers, and Students' Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA   
1996 'Jewelry in Europe and America: New Times, New Thinking'  Crafts Council Gallery, London, England
1996 National Museum & Gallery Cardiff, Wales
1996 'Signals: Late Twentieth-Century American Jewelry', Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI                
1996 Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada
1996 'Jewelry at the Castle' Kasino Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
1996 'Schmuckszene' International Handwerksmesse, Munich, Germany (catalog)
1996 'Issues and Intent - Contemporary American Metalwork' Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA  
1994 'One-of-a-Kind: American Art Jewelry Today' Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1993 'Munich Goldsmiths 93' Stadtmuseum Muenchen, Munich, Germany (catalog)
1993 'Gothic Affinities-Five Artists Working in the Crafts Tradition' Hicks Art Center, Philadelphia,  PA
                             
Awards & Residencies:
2016 Upside Down in Paradise Faculty Research Grant, San Diego State University
2015 Black Faculty Research Grant, San Diego State University
2010 Found Subjects  Faculty Research Grant, San Diego State University
2008 Abstracting Craft  Faculty Research Grant, San Diego State University
2007 Anthophobia  Faculty Research Grant, San Diego State University
2005 Artist Fellowship, Rhode Island Council on the Arts   
2002 Artist Fellowship, Rhode Island Council on the Arts
2001 Symposion 01 Okresni museum, Ceskeho raje, Turnov, Czech Republic        
2001 Emerging Artists Fellowship ,Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation,
1990 Artist  Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
1989 Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Mid-Atlantic / NEA 
1988 Fulbright Scholarship, Grant for Study Abroad                                 

Public Collections:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
City Museum, Turnov, Czech Republic
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Art and Design, NY
 
Presentations:
2014 Indiana University, Artist Lecture/Workshop/Critiques Bloomington, IN
2013 Mingei International Museum, Artist Lecture, San Diego, CA
2012 University of the Arts, Artist Lecture, Philadelphia, PA
2009  San Diego Museum of Art, Artist Lecture, San Diego, CA
2009 State University of New York -New Paltz, Artist Lecture /Critques, New Paltz, NY
2009 University of Kansas-Lawrence, Hallmark Design Symposium lecture and Grad Critiques, Lawrence, KS
2008 University of Wisconsin - Madison, Artist Lecture /. Critiques, Madison, WI
2008 California State University-Long Beach, Artist Lecture /. Critiques Long Beach, CA
2008 'The Body as Site', workshop, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC           
2008 'Abstracting Commemoration', Master's Workshop, Pratt Fine Arts Center,Seattle, WA
2006 The Fuller Craft Museum, Artist Lecture, Brockton, MA,
2006 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Artist Lecture / critiques, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2006 Tacoma Art Museum,‘The Language of Jewelry’ panel discussion, Seattle, WA
2006 Rhode Island School of Design, Artist Lecture / critiques, Providence, RI
2003 Myers School of Art, U. of Akron, OH, Artist Lecture / workshop
2003 University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, Artist lecture
2003  ‘Failed Telepathy’ Artist Lecture, Sculptural Objects Functional Art Expo, New York, NY
2003 Symposium ‘The Ring’, Mass. College of Art, presenter-discussant, Boston, MA
2003 ‘Dialogue on Contemporary Jewelry’, Rhode Island School of Design, presenter, panel, Providence, RI
2000 ‘Five Women in Craft’ Artist  lecture, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art,
2000 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 
1999 ‘Rethinking Jewelry’, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, panel discussion,
1999 Colorado Metalsmiths Conference, ‘Transcending Scale’, workshop / lecture, Salida, CO
1999 State University of New York, New Paltz, NY -  Visiting Artist Workshop
1998 Penland School of Crafts, workshop ‘Jewelry as Souvenir’, Penland, NC
1998 Savannah College of Art and Design, GA, ‘Boxmaking for Objects’ Art Educators Forum      
1997 Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
1997 Renwick Alliance, Workshop - 'Box making for Jewelry', Washington, DC
1997 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1997 State University of New York, New Paltz, visiting artist lecture
1995 Rhode Island School of Design, Artist Lecture / critique, Providence, RI
1995 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA
1995 University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA – Artist Lecture / critique
1994 Sommerakademie Salzburg, Austria

Curatoiral Projects:
2005 ‘Alternatives: Materials / Means’, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI (poster)
2003 ‘Evocative Objects’, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence RI (catalog)

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