Sondra Sherman       Curriculum Vitae                                                                               return to exhibition

 
 

 

selected cv

EDUCATION       
1990        Munich Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, GERMANY, Diplom  Degree
                ( Masters Degree Equivalent)   Professor Hermann Junger
1980      Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
                    B.F.A. Degree - Jewelry and Painting Concentrations

PROFESSIONAL     
EXPERIENCE  
2006-         San Diego State University ,
                    Associate Professor, Dept. Art-Jewelry + Metalsmithing, San Diego, CA      
2000-06     Rhode Island College, Professor, Dept. Art -Metals +Jewelry, Foundations
1999-00    State University of New York at New Paltz, 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,   Faculty, Jewelry 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


AWARDS
2006 Faculty Reseach Grant, San Diego State University
2005     Artist Fellowship , Rhode Island Council on the Arts   
2002        Artist Fellowship , Rhode Island Council on the Arts
2001        Tiffany Foundation, Emerging Artists Fellowship
1990        Artist  Fellowship , Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
1989        Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Mid-Atlantic / NEA 
1988        Fulbright Scholarship , Grant for Study Abroad
1984        Honor Award "Inamori Inc. Jewelry Design Competition 84"
1983        Honor Award "Intergold Inc. Gold 83" Design Competition

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS   
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington ,DC
RISD Museum , Providence , RI
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Myers School of Art , Akron , OH
City Museum , Turnov , Czech Republic

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
                  'Cascades' Jewelerswerk Galerie, Washington, DC
1996         'All That's Precious' Jewelerswerk Galerie, Washington, DC
1995         'Conation / Cognition' Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
'Craft in America ' Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft , Portland OR (traveling)
'Glasswear' Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo , OH (traveling)
'Earrings' Velvet Da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco , CA
'SOFA New York ' presented by Sienna Gallery , New York , NY
'Re-framing Jewelry ' SNAG EIP at SOFA Chicago ', Chicago , IL
2006
'Edges of Grace: Provocative, Uncommon Craft' The Fuller Craft Museum , Brockton , MA
'SOFA New York ' presented by Sienna Gallery , New York , NY
'Challenging the Chatelaine' DesignMuseo, Helsinki , Finland (traveling)
'SOFA Chicago ' presented by Sienna Gallery, Chicago , IL
'Collaboration' Sharon Campbell Spiral at Widney Moore Studio, Portland , OR
2005
'Beginnings' Pacini-Lubel Gallery, Seattle , WA
'200 Brooches' Velvet Da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco , CA
'SOFA Chicago ' presented by Sienna Gallery, Chicago , IL
2004
'Historical Connections', Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge , MA
'Rings' Gallery of Art + Design, NC State University , Raleigh , North Carolina
'SOFA New York ', Presented by Sienna Gallery , New York , NY
'200 Rings', Velvet Da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco , CA
2003
'The Link to the Body' 3 rd Biennial of Contemporary Jewelry, Nimes , FRANCE
'Botanical Jewelry' , Mobilia, Gallery, Cambridge , MA
'Ice' Sienna at Heller Gallery , New York , NY
'SOFA Chicago ' presented by Sienna Gallery, Chicago . IL
2002
'Schmuckszene' , International Handwerksmess, Munich, GERMANY
'Schmuck 2002' International Jewelry, The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, SCOTLAND
'Von Wegen' Schmuck aus Munchen, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus,Hanau. GERMANY
2001      
  'A View By Two' RISD Museum, Providence, RI
'Micromegas' BKV Gallerie, Munich, GERMANY
'The Ring' Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
'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,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
'Marked by Media' , Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (catalog)
'Schonmachen' , Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, GERMANY
'Metals x5' , Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
 ' 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)
' The Shadow of Memory ', Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
'Brooching It Diplomatically; A Tribute to Madeline Albright Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia,PA, Museum Het Kruithuis, s'Hertogenbosch, THE NETHERLANDS, Museum of       Applied Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland, American Craft Museum, NY, The Contemporary       Museum, Honolu, Hawaii (catalog)
'Personal Memory-bytes' Facere' Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998       
'Metals National Invitational', Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
'Transfigurations: 9 Contemporary Metalsmiths Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IA
'Gold and Silver' American Craft Museum, New York, NY
 1997       
'Transfigurations1997:Nine Contemporary Metalsmiths'  The University of Akron,
  ' The  Environmental Bead' Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT (catalog)
'3 Generations; Mentors, Teachers, and Students' Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
  'Metals Etc.' Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, TX (catalog)
  'Rachelle Thiewes Curates' Fox Fine Arts Center, University of Texas, El Paso, TX
  'Contemporary Thought in Jewelry' Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
  1996       
'Jewelry in Europe and America: New Times, New Thinking'  Crafts Council Gallery, London,   ENGLAND, National Museum & Gallery Cardiff, WALES
    'Signals: Late Twentieth-Century American Jewelry', Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills,    MI, Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, CANADA
    'Jewelry at the Castle' Kasino Salzburg, Salzburg, AUSTRIA
   'Schmuckszene' International Handwerksmesse, Munich, GERMANY (catalog )                        1996
'S.O.F.A. Chicago1996'   presented by Jewelerswerk Galerie, Chicago , IL
'Studio Days' Chester Springs Studios, Chester Springs, PA
  'S.O.F.A. Miami 1996' Presented by Susan Cummins Gallery, Miami , FL
'Issues and Intent - Contemporary American Metalwork' Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1995       
'S.O.F.A. Chicago 1995' Presented by Jewelerswerk Galerie, Chicago, IL
  'American Art Jewelry Now' Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, Milagros Gallery, San  Antonio, TX
  'New Works' Installation, Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1994     
'One-of-a-Kind: American Art Jewelry Today' Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
'Four One-Person Shows' Gail M. Brown - Artists Jewelry and Fine Crafts, Philadelphia , PA
1993       
' Munich Goldsmiths 93' Stadtmuseum Muenchen, Munich , GERMANY (catalog)
  'Gothic Affinities-Five Artists Working in the Crafts Tradition' Hicks Art Center , Philadelphia , 'Chicago International - New Art Forms Exposition' presented by Joanne Rapp Gallery
1992        
'Neoteric Jewelry' Society of Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA,  RISD Museum, Providence, RI  (catalog )
'Four Jewelers' Facets Gallery, Dartmouth, ENGLAND
'Citta Alchemia' Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt, GERMANY
1991       
' Philadelphia Craft Show' , Philadelphia, PA
'Neoteric Jewelry' Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island , NY
1990
'Five American Jewelers , Joanne Rapp Gallery, Scottsdale , AZ
'Zeichen am Ohr' Galerie fur Modernen Schmuck, Frankfurt, GERMANY
  'Hermann Junger and his Students' Galerie Rehklau, Augsburg, GERMANY
  'PA Crafts Fellowship Recipients' The Society for Art in Crafts, Pittsburg, PA, Erie Art Museum,  Erie PA, The Clay  Studio, Philadelphia, PA (catalog)
1989 'Armschmuck' Hilde Leiss Galerie fuer Schmuck , Hamburg , GERMANY  
'Fellowship Winners' The Life of Maryland Gallery, Baltimore , MD
  'Schmuck + Verpackung = Object' Galerie Unikat, Munich , GERMANY
' Five Munich Jewelers' Galerie Jean Hilger, LUXEMBURG
1988       
' Young Americans' American Craft  Museum , New York , NY (catalog)
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK, The Worcester Center for Crafts,  Worcester, MA, Memorial Art Gallery (university of Rochester), Rochester, NY, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL   
                'Jugend Gestaltet' Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich, GERMANY (catalog)
                'Ringe' Galerie Unikat, Munich, GERMANY
                'Art and Design' Benson and Hedges Gold Competition, Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Stadt Museum Dusseldorf, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schleswig, Galerie Pels-Leisder Villa Berlin, GERMANY
'Jahresaustellung' Akademie der Bildende Kunste, Munich, GERMANY
1987
'Schmuck im Bewegung' Int. Competition, Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim , GERMANY
'Schmuck 87' Kunstlerhaus, Munich , GERMANY
1986        'Kopfschmuck' Inter. Competition, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, GERMANY
1984       
'Jewelry USA' American Craft Museum II, New York, NY, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angelos, CA, Bellvue Art Museum, WA, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, San Jose Museum of Art, CA (catalog)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books
2007 500 Earrings, Alan Revere, editor, Lark Books, Asheville , NC
2006 Challenging the Chatelaine , Drutt English, Helen and Aav, Marianne, Designmuseo, Helsinki , Finnland
2005 500 Brooches , Marjorie Simon, editor, Lark Books, Asheville , NC
2004 1000 Rings , Robert Ebendorf, editor, Lark Books, Asheville, NC
1996        Jewelry  in Europe and America , Turner, Ralph, London, ENGLAND: Thames and Hudson
1994        One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today , Lewin, Susan Grant, New York: Abrams                    •  Munich Goldsmiths 93 , Bauer, Helmut, Munich , GERMANY : Stadtmuseum
Periodicals   
'Re-framing Jewelry' Metalsmith: Exhibition in Print , Society of North American Goldsmiths,
Metalsmith: Forum:'Jewelers on Jewelry' Society of North American Goldsmiths, vol.26, #5 ,2006
Metalsmith: Exhibition in Print , Society of North American Goldsmiths, vol.26, #4, 2006
Metalsmith: 'review 'Seven Types of Ambiguity' , Andrea DiNoto, Fall 2006
Evocative Objects: Studio Metalsmithing and Jewelry, Author-Curator's Intro, 2003
American Craft , '5 Women in Craft', review, winter 2000
    Metalsmith: Exhibition in Print , Society of North American Goldsmiths, Fall 2000
Metalsmith , Simon, Marjorie,'Cascades' review, Summer 1998
American Craft, Ramljak, Suzanne, 'Keeping Vigil: Jewelry, Touch, and Physical Engagement',1997
The Beacon Journal, Shinn, Dorothy, 'Transfigurations', review, 1997
                Metalsmith, Metcalf, Bruce, 'Both/And: The Work of  Sondra Sherman', Winter 1997
                Salzburger Nachtrichten , Pabinger D.,'Rare Schmuck-Kunst im Schloss' review, 1996
                Exhibition in Print, Society of North American Goldsmiths, 1994
                Kunst+Handwerk , Nicola, K.G., 'Jugend Gestaltet', GERMANY, review,1988
Jeweler's Circular Keystone, Gertz, Lesley, 'Philadelphia Jewelers, Radnor, PA: Chilton, 1984