Art, Art History, and Film Faculty

Mary Sherman

Part-time Faculty, Studio Art

Profile

Mary Sherman鈥檚 background includes a strong academic training, primarily, in painting from the Smithsonian Institution鈥檚 National Portrait Gallery and classes with Erich Huber of the Hochschule f眉r Angewandte Kunst, Vienna. More recently, though, her work has evolved beyond the canvas into time and space with kinetic installations, often, inspired by paintings. For this work, she uses technology (micro-processing, robotics, computational devices, scientific data and the like) alongside the emotionally fraught materials of fine art media, turning static installations into immersive, experiential performances that compose 鈥 and, then, alter 鈥 the architecture in which they are installed. 聽Along with her art work, she is also the founder and director of the international non-profit arts organization TransCultural Exchange, the former interim Associate Director of MIT鈥檚 Art, Culture and Technology program (ACT) and a curator and art critic with over 30 years of broad, in-depth, and diversified experience in the arts and humanities.聽 (See below.)

Exhibitions

(All Selected, roughly of the last 10 years; complete listing attached)

  • 2019聽 Schlossgartenhotel, Stuttgart, Germany (as part of the performance team NAF鈥檚 Norm is the New Fiction)
  • 聽聽聽聽The Cit茅 Internationale des Arts,聽Paris, France, Open Studio:聽Mary Sherman and Mathieu Corajod
  • 2018聽 APO-33, Nantes, France, Mary Sherman
  • 2016聽 Oboro, Montreal, Canada, Dream Mechanics
  • 聽 Drive-by Gallery, 艾可直播, MA, Eri after Dark
  • 2015聽 Crafton Hills College, Yucaipa, CA, Waiting for Yves (sound: Yannick Franck)
  • 2014聽 Galleri KiT, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Delay
  • 2011聽 艾可直播 Sculptors Gallery, 艾可直播, MA, Waiting for Yves.
  • 2010聽 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA, At Heart Spike Jones: The Eames Edition
  • 2009聽 艾可直播 Sculptors Gallery, 艾可直播, MA Mechanical Universe: Nocturne
  • 2008聽 Zendai MoMA, /Intrude: Art & Life 366 Project, Shanghai, China, Here Comes The Sun

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

  • 2019聽 W眉rttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, German, K枚nnte aber doch (translation: Could be)
  • 2016聽 International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN)/Oboro, Montreal, Canada, Delay (catalog)
  • 聽聽聽聽King Station, Seattle, Washington, 9e2 (9 Evenings: Theater & Engineering, a Commemorative Festival)
  • 2015聽 Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany (curator: Thomas Trummer), Views on Mainz
  • 聽聽聽聽New York University鈥檚 Loewe Theater, NYC, NY, Electrified Data
  • 聽聽聽聽Harvestworks, New York City, NY, Sound Invasions
  • 聽聽聽聽Elisabeth Anna-Palais, Oldenburg, Germany, Understanding Means Reduction
  • 2013聽 Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China, X-Dialogue, Part 2
  • 2012聽 Beijing Central Conservatory of Music, 鈥淥n Native Music,鈥 Modern Traditional Music Festival, Beijing
  • 2011聽 G.O. Gallery, University of Amherst, Amherst, MA, Novel Idea.
  • 聽聽聽聽Rebecca Bryan Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, S. Carolina, The VESTIGES Project
  • 2010聽 London Biennale, 艾可直播 (Satellite Venue)
  • 聽聽聽聽艾可直播 Center for the Arts, 艾可直播, MA Uninhibited
  • 2009聽 1st Art & Science Festival, Zervas Art & Science, University of Patras, Greece
  • 聽聽聽聽Axiom Gallery, 艾可直播, MA, Collision 14: pov
  • 2008聽 Cushing-Martin Gallery at Stonehill College, Easton, MA, Move Me: Kineticism in Art
  • 聽聽聽聽London Biennale, London
  • 聽聽聽聽Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Collaboration: Anticipating the Art of the Future, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 聽聽聽聽Prima Center Projektgalerie, Berlin, 90 Unique Artists,
  • 聽聽聽聽Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, China, Coaster Project /Intrude: Art & Life 366 Project

Curatorial Projects (All Selected, roughly of the last 10 years; complete listing attached)

  • 2015聽 Provincetown Art museum Light, Palette, Action! Maurice Freedman, Provincetown, MA
  • 2013聽 艾可直播 University/I-90, Florian Dombois鈥 uboc No1 and StuVi2, 艾可直播, MA
  • 2010聽 London Biennale, Satelite Venue 艾可直播, MA
  • 2009-2011聽 Here, There and Everywhere: The Art of Collaboration, 100 World Sites
  • 聽聽聽聽Producer, artist, organizer and curator of a series of exhibitions and performances by artists working collaboratively with people from another country and another discipline to create new collaborative works.
  • 2008-2010聽 Here, There and Everywhere: The Art of the Future, 60 world sites
  • 聽聽聽聽Producer, artist, organizer and curator of a series of collaborator projects for which artists work with someone from another discipline to聽聽聽聽聽聽 cross geographic boundaries to create collaborative works
  • 2008聽 Zendai MoMA, The Coaster Project, Shanghai, China

Exhibitions Bibliography (All Selected, roughly of the last 10 years; complete listing attached)

  • 2019聽 Stuttgarter-Zeigung, 鈥淒as Performanceduo Naf feiert den Erfolg,鈥 January 28, 2019, by Nicole Golombek.
  • 聽聽聽聽S-Nord/S-Ost, 鈥淚m Stau gegen die Selbstoptimierung,鈥 January 29, 2019, by Susanna M眉ller-Baji.
  • 2018聽 艾可直播 College Magazine, 鈥淭he Machinist,鈥 Winter 2018, pp. 46-47
  • 聽 聽聽 by Frank Schaffer, Apple Books, p. 277- 299.
  • 2017聽 The Daily Northwestern, 鈥淎rtist Mary Sherman speaks about art, charity,鈥 April 7, by Jackson Elliott.
  • 2016聽 Le Devoir, 鈥淧eintures cin茅tiques et chatouilleuses,鈥 Nov. 19, by J茅r么me Delgado
  • 聽聽聽聽Flux News, 鈥淢ary Sherman: Les jeunes artistes doivent se render . .. 鈥, September, by Yannick Franck.
  • 108,听Dans les internets/Inside the Internet,聽鈥淒elay (2012) de Mary ShermanYou l鈥檃udification du regard,鈥 p. 9, June-September 2016, by Abenavoli, Lorella. (peer review)
  • 2015聽 Art in America, 鈥淭he Agenda: This Week in New York,鈥 by A.i.A. Editors Previews July 21
  • 聽聽聽聽艾可直播 Globe, 鈥淚n Provincetown,鈥 By Cate McQuaid, September 1.
  • , 鈥淔orschen mit den Ohren,鈥 p. 65-66, by Anna Beerlink. (peer review)
  • 2014听听Sculpture magazine, "艾可直播: Florian Dombois," (as curator for) April 2014, by Jane Ingram Allen.
  • 2013听听"Non-Profit Directed by BC's Sherman Receives $25,000 NEA Grant," May 23, 2013, by the Office of News and Public Affairs.聽聽聽聽聽聽
  • , 鈥淐FA Alliance to Increase Abroad Opportunities for Artists,鈥 by Brian Latimer.
  • 2012聽 Art New England, 鈥淢ary Sherman of TransCultural Exchange鈥 May 1, 2012, by Christian Holland.
  • 2011聽 Fine Arts Center 1020-2011, UMass Amherst, 鈥淗ampden Gallery, Mary Sherman,鈥 p. 19.
  • 聽聽聽聽艾可直播 Globe, 鈥淢aterial Worlds,鈥 Oct. 19, 2011, by Cate McQuaid.
  • 聽聽聽聽艾可直播 Globe, 鈥淎iming to make connections,鈥 April 7, 2011, by Jeffrey Gantz.
  • 聽聽聽聽News Cheonji Newspaper, 鈥淩eal Interview,鈥 August 2011, by Ji In Lee.
  • 聽聽聽聽World Journal, 鈥淭CE-Interconnected World,鈥 April 13, 2011, by Kitty Huang.
  • 2010聽 艾可直播 Globe, 鈥淪eason for living and color,鈥 July 28 by Cate McQuaid.
  • 聽聽聽聽Gangneung Haslla Internaional Residency 2010, Haslla Open Air Museum Residency, 2010, 聽. 43-44, 48.
  • 2009聽 艾可直播 Globe, 鈥淰arious Evidence of Enigma,鈥 July 22 by Cate McQuaid.
  • 聽聽聽聽Big,Red and Shiny, 鈥淏ig Red On-the-Town: First Friday at SOWA,
  • 聽聽聽聽Berkshire Fine Arts, 鈥淭ransCultural Exchange Conference,鈥 April 20, by Charles Guilano.
  • 聽聽聽聽Artist, 鈥淭ransCultural Exchange,鈥 April 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, by Ilgim Veryeri Alaca.

Grants, Awards, and Other Honorary Positions

(All Selected, roughly of the last 10 years; complete listing attached)

  • 2019聽 Artist-in-Resident, Cit茅 Internationale des arts, Paris, France.
  • 2018聽 Fulbright Grantee, Specialist, Trondheim, Norway.
  • 聽聽聽聽Summer Research Grant, Office of International Programs, 艾可直播 College
  • 聽聽聽聽Gouvernement du Qu茅bec and 艾可直播 Cultural Council Grants (TransCultural Exchange)
  • 2016聽 Grantee, Artists Resource Trust
  • 聽聽聽聽Summer Research Grant, 艾可直播 College Office of International Programs
  • 聽聽聽聽National Endowment for the Arts, 艾可直播 Cultural Council, 艾可直播 Foundation Grants (TransCultural Exchange)
  • 2015聽 Juror, National Endowment for the Arts
  • 聽聽聽聽Researcher-in-Resident, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
  • 2014聽 Finalist, On our Radar聽 聽聽
  • 2013聽 National Endowment for the Arts, Asian Cultural Council, Massachusetts Cultural Council, (TransCultural Exchange)聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽
  • 2012聽 Fulbright Grantee, Senior Scholar Specialist, Istanbul.
  • 2010聽 Fulbright 33rd Annual Conference Arts Task Force Co-Chair, Argentina, Buenos Aires
  • 2009聽 Certificate of Recognition, Massachusetts House of Representatives, 艾可直播, MA
  • 聽聽聽聽The Netherland-American Foundation, 艾可直播 Cultural Council, 艾可直播 Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation Grants (TransCultural Exchange)
  • 2008聽 Member of the College Board鈥檚 National Arts Task Force on Arts in Education
  • 聽聽聽聽Artist-in-Residence, Taipei National University of the Arts鈥 Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
  • 聽聽聽聽Fulbright Grantee, Senior Scholar Specialist, Taiwan

Artist-in-Residence

  • Camac, Marnay sur Seine, France (2013)
  • First Art & Science Festival, University of Patras, Greece (2009)
  • Taipei National University of the Arts' Kuandu Museum (2008)

Talks

  • Speaker, "Causality or Contingency: What Keeps Culture Going" (conference at the Global Humanities Campus, Freie Universit盲t, Berlin, Germany, 2018).
  • (Catalyst Conversation with Mary Sherman, Florian Grond and Hiroshi Ishii), MIT's List Visual Art Center, November 16, 2017
  • , Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al's Programme de conf茅rences en arts visuels et m茅diatiques de l'脡AVM-UQA, Canada (Professor Sherman's talk starts at 7:45 in the video)
  • Panelist, "Creating the Global: Lessons from the Art, Literary, Museum and Music Worlds," the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2016
  • Keynote speaker, "SID: Sounds, Images and Data Conference," New York University, NY, 2015
  • Presenter, "Conference on Curating Sound," Goldsmith's University/The Courtauld Institute, London, UK, 2014
  • Beijing Forestry University, "Mary Sherman Recent Work," 2013
  • Central Arts Academy, "Mary Sherman," Beijing, China, 2013
  • French Cultural Center, "Round Table with Catherine Millet," 艾可直播, MA, 2013
  • The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2013
  • Res Artis Annual Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 2012
  • Rhode Island School of Design (Henry Horenstein's Photography Class), Providence, RI, 2012
  • Moderator, "International Artists-in-Residencies," The Derryfield School's Lyceum, Manchester, NH, 2011

Curatorial Project

  • Florian Dombois' uboc No. 1 and StuVi2, 艾可直播 University, October 10-13, 2013

Press Articles

  • The Daily Northwestern, "Artist Mary Sherman speaks about art, charity," April 7, 2017, by Jackson Elliott.
  • Le Devoir, "Peintures cin茅tiques et chatouilleuses," November 19, 2016, by J茅r么me Delgado
  • Flux News, "Mary Sherman: Les jeunes artistes doivent se render...," September 2016, by Yannick Franck
  • Art in America, "The Agenda: This Week in New York," Previews, July 21, 2015, by the Art in America editors
  • 艾可直播 Globe, "In Provincetown," September 1, 2015, by Cate McQuaid
  • Wikipedia contributors, ","听Wikipedia, The Encyclopedia聽(accessed April 15, 2015)
  • Sculpture magazine, "艾可直播: Florian Dombois," (as curator for), April 2014, by Jane Ingram Allen
  • The 艾可直播 College Chronicle, , May 23, 2013, by the 艾可直播 College Office of News and Public Affairs
  • The Daily Free Press, , January 31, 2013, by Brian Latimer
  • Art New England, "Mary Sherman of TransCultural Exchange," May 1, 2012, by Christian Holland
  • 艾可直播.com/Global Business Hub (The 艾可直播 Globe, content provided by 艾可直播 World Partnerships), "A Portrait of the artist as global entrepreneur," January 30, 2012, by Devin Cole
  • 艾可直播 Globe, "Material Worlds," October 19, 2011, by Cate McQuaid

Interviews

  • 艾可直播 College Libraries, Faculty Publication Highlights: 听(2017)
  • BNN TV, "It's All About Arts," Interview with Canvas Fine Arts and TransCultural Exchange Conference Speakers, "TransCultural Exchange's 2011 Conference," April 2011
  • ORF (Austrian Public Radio: Diagonal-Radio for Zeigenossen), Kindheit auf der Midway Islands, interviewed by Nicole Dietrich, 2011

Publications

Books

  • MIT Press/Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Mary Sherman: What if You Could Hear a Painting, edited by Lanfranco Aceti, 2016, reissued 2018.
  • Editor and article author, Vernon Press, International Opportunities in the Arts, 2019 (peer review).
  • Book Cover Illustrations (Selected)
  • Random House, London, UK, (drawing), Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips (2009).
  • Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. (painting) The Trouble with Blame by Sharon Lamb (1996).
  • Penguin Books, London, UK, (painting), The Madness of a Seduced Woman by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer (1991).

Articles and Book Reviews

Note from 1988 鈥 2003:聽 Mary Sherman served an art critic, publishing over 400 art reviews, book reviews, interviews and news pieces, starting as the chief art critic for The Chicago Sun-Times and later as a regular contributor of art criticism to the 艾可直播 Herald, 艾可直播 Globe, Art New England and ARTnews, among others. Additionally, served as a regular contributor of articles on architectural competitions for the academic journal Competitions.

Selected Catalog Essays (All Selected, roughly of the last 10 years; complete listing attached)

  • 2015聽 Light, Palette, Auction: Maurice Freedman, Provincetown Art Museum
  • 2011聽 Welcome to Residence, Tokyo WonderSite, Tokyo, Japan
  • Not all Bird鈥檚 Sing (catalog forward), Cyberwite, Allahabad, India
  • Here, There and Everywhere: The Art of Collaboration, Gateway, Taiwan
  • 2010聽 Gangneung Haslla International Residency, Haslla Art World, Gangneung, S, Korea
  • 2009聽 Here, There and Everywhere: The Art of the Future, Gateway, Taiwan
  • 2007聽 The Tile Project, Doig Printing, Taiwan

Conference Papers, Talks (All Selected, roughly of the last 10 years; complete listing attached)

  • 2019聽 Speaker, 鈥淧ress Play鈥 Conference at MACRO-ASILO and the British School, Rome, Italy
  • 2018聽 Speaker/and Guest Critic, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
  • Speaker, Global Humanities Campus, Freie Universit盲t, Berlin
  • 2017聽 Guest Speaker, Catalyst Conversation with Mary Sherman, Florian Grond and Hiroshi Ishii: Bits,
  • Sights聽and聽Sound, MIT's List Visual Arts Center
  • Guest Speaker, Grants and Artists in Residencies: Where to Find Them How to Win Them, American Society of Media Photographers, Leslie University, 艾可直播聽聽
  • Guest Speaker, Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises Speakers Series, School of Communications,聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  • 2016 Visiting Artist Lecture, 鈥淧ainting: In Praise of Frozen Sound,鈥 Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al, Montreal, Canada
  • Artist Talk, Oboro, Montreal, Canada
  • Panelist, Harvard University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,鈥淐reating the Global: Lessons from the Art, Literary, Museum and聽Music Worlds Panelist
  • 2015听听聽(keynote presentation) at the聽Conference, New York University, New York;
  • Speaker, Cultural Mobility Symposium, CUNY, NYC, NY聽聽聽聽聽
  • Speaker, Alliance of Artist Communities, Providence, RI
  • Ripples: What Artists Bring to the Community, The Kansai International Symposium: Cultural Crossroads = A.I.R., Yonago Convention Center, Yonago, Japan
  • 2014听听聽presented at the聽Histories, Theories and Practices of Sound Art Curating Conference; Goldsmiths, University of London and the聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Courtauld Institute of Art
  • Visiting Artist/Speaker, Trans Artists, Berlin, Germany
  • 2013聽 Discussant, Roundtable with Art Critic and Author, Catherine Millet, French Cultural Center, 艾可直播, MA
  • Awardee, Creative Capital, On our Radar
  • Guest Speaker, Communication University, Beijing, China
  • Guest Artist/Speaker Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim, Norway
  • 2012聽 Guest Speaker, Artists Fair, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Guest Speaker, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
  • Speaker, 鈥淴-Dialogue" International Contemporary Art Exhibition Beijing Forestry University, Beijing,
  • 2011聽 Moderator, 鈥淚nternational Artists-in-Residencies,鈥 The Derryfield School鈥檚 Lyceum, Manchester, NH
  • Guest Speaker, Hochschule der Kunste Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • 2010聽 Panelist, 鈥淎rts in the One World 2010鈥, Brown University, Providence, RI
  • Panelist, 鈥淕rant Writing,鈥 艾可直播 Arts and Business Council, 艾可直播, MA
  • Guest Speaker, New York Artists Circle, NYC, Y
  • Guest Speaker, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2009聽 Speaker, The College Art Association, 鈥淚nternational Residencies,鈥 Los Angeles, CA
  • Moderator, MIT Grad Arts Forum, 鈥淎rtists-in-Residence/Why?,鈥 Cambridge, MA
  • Panelist on the Creative Economy, International Association for Feminist Economics, 艾可直播, MA
  • 2008聽 Speaker, The Fulbright Annual Conference, 鈥淭he Interconnected World,鈥 Beijing, China.

Memberships

  • Fulbright Alumni Program
  • International Art Critics Association (AICA)