Curriculum vitae
CLAIRE SHERWOOD
518.892.0817 (c)
claire@clairesherwood.com
Education
2003 David C. Driskell Fellowship Recipient MFA: Sculpture, University of Maryland: College Park, MD
2002: Internship Award: Sculpture Conservator at the Smithsonian National Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
1997 BFA: Sculpture/Ceramics, Bowling Green State University: Bowling Green, OH
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
2024: (summer) ChaNorth and Paradise Palace Artist Residency, Pine Pines, NY
2024: (summer) Elizabeth Murray Alumni Artist Residency, awarded by CollarWorks Gallery, Washington County, NY
2018: New York State Council on the Arts: Individual Artist Commission Grant.
2018: Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Program Fellowship, Washington County, NY
2014: Artist in Residency Award: The Arts Center of the Capitol Region, Troy, NY
2012: Strategic Opportunity Stipend, NYFA, Grant awarded in support of the exhibition
2010: Best in Show: Albany Center Gallery: Members Exhibition, Albany, NY
2007: South East College Art Association: First Place Members Exhibition
2006: West Virginia State Professional Development Grant, State of WV Division of Culture and History, Charleston, WV
2006: Faculty Development Grant: College of Fine Arts, Marshall University
2006: Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts Residency fellowship
2005: Faculty Development Grant: College of Fine Arts: Marshall University
2005: Award of Excellence: Purchase Award: WV Juried Exhibition: Charleston, WV.
2004: ORBI: (Ohio River Border Initiative) Artist Grant
2003: Outstanding Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture: International Sculpture Center: Sculpture Magazine
2003: Finalist: International Sculpture Center Switzerland residency: awarded by the Aeschlimann Foundation
2003: Alumni Association Award: University of MD: College Park: artwork presented to the College of Arts and Humanities
2002: Graduate Thesis Research Grant, University of Maryland: College Park
2002: David C. Driskell Award/assistantship, University of Maryland: College Park
1999: Residency Grant: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Another Nature, CANO Gallery, Oneonta, NY
2022:2022: Collect: Juniper Sculpture Park curated by Contemporary North, Cumberland Head, NY
2022: Uprooted, SUNY Jamestown Community College, Science Center Atrium, Jamestown, NY
2022: Tilt: Smallbany Gallery, 1/12 scale gallery and installation space, Albany NY 2008 after everything else: Mesaros Galleries, West Virginia University Morgantown, WV
2007 Ornamented: Fall Solos: Arlington Arts Center, Arlington VA
2006 Vestigial: Delaware Center of the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2005 New Sculpture: Claire Sherwood: The Esther Allen Greer Museum University of Rio Grande: Gallipolis, OH
2003 Claire Sherwood: Recent Work, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD
Two and Three Person Exhibitions
2013 Overgrown, Geoffrey Detrani, Alexis Grabowski, Claire Sherwood, The Arts Center of The Capitol Region, Troy, NY
2013 Claire Sherwood and Ali Della Bitta: Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY
2013 Geoffrey Detrani, Claire Sherwood, Alexis Grabowski, Art Center of the Capitol Region, Main Gallery, Troy, NY
2012 Domestic Subversions Recent works by Mimi Graminski, Claire Sherwood, and Lindsay Stern. Kingston Museum of Contemporary, Kingston, NY
2012 Icing: Claire Sherwood and Emma Copley: Arts Center of the Capitol Region: Troy, NY
2006 Claire Sherwood and Foon Sham: Birke Art Gallery: Huntington, WV
2004 Claire Sherwood and David Meyer: Mount Saint Mary’s University: Emmitsburg, MD
Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances
2024: Bloom, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY
2024:Beyond the Surface, Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY
2024:DIG, Heaven Gallery, Chicago,IL
2024:Winter Invitational, Holiday, Labspace, Hillsdale, NY
2022: Mountain High, Valley Low, artists of the Hudson Valley. LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY
2022:DIG, Parlor and Ramp, Chicago, IL
2022: Painting at Night, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY
2021: Painting at Night, Annual juried Artist/Mother Network exhibition, Fort Wayne, IN
2021: Sunrise, Sunset, Albany International Airport
2021: House and Universe, Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY
2019: In-faux Structure, Opalka Gallery, Sage College, Albany, NY
2019: Earthly Delights, curated by Julie Torres, Re-Insitute, Millerton, NY
2019: Holiday, Labspace, Hillsdale, NY
2019: Made in Grandville, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY
2018: Upon the Ground, Below the Water, Albany Airport gallery, Albany, NY
2018 True North: LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY
2018 Square Peg, Round Hole, The Church, Troy, NY
2018 Spatial Oddities, LabSpace Gallery, Hilsdale, NY
2018 Jay Clay, clay invitational, Jay, NY
2018 Being Alive, The CHurch, Troy, NY
2017 Nasty Women of the North, Collar Works Gallery, Troy, NY (organized and curated exhibition)
2017 Taconic North, LABspace, Hudson, NY
2017 Emerging Sculptors, Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburg, NY
2016 Reclamation: Group Invitational exhibition: CollarWorks Gallery, Troy, NY.
2016 The Space in Between: Group exhibition, Upstate Artist Guild Gallery, Albany NY
2012 Work/Drawing: Group invitational exhibition: Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY.
2012 Skype, Skulpt, Studio: video performance piece: collaboration with Seattle based artist Susan Robb. Curated by Cable Griffth, Cornish College of the Arts, Main Gallery of Art, Seattle, WA
2012 Albany Airport site specific sculpture installed and displayed June 2012- June 2014: Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
2012 Time.Space.Place an exhibition by four installation artists: Sterz, Claire Sherwood, Jessica Houston and Micaela de Vivero. The Arts Center Gallery, Saratoga Arts Council, Saratoga Springs, NY
2010 Faculty Exhibition, Esther Massry Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY 2010
2010 Mortise Collar Tendon, invitational traveling group exhibition, Salem Art Works, Salem, NY and Union College, Schenectady, NY 2010 Constellations of Women, invitational group exhibition, Anderson Creative, Canton, OH
2010 Faculty Exhibition, Esther Massry Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY
2008 Autobiographies: 6 West Virginia Artists, Invitational group exhibition, The Clay Center, Charleston, WV
2008 Buswater II: Invitational group exhibition: Charleston, WV
2007 Exhibition 280: Huntington Museum of Art: Huntington, WV (juried: Mark Masuoka)
2007 Primed: Washington Project for the Arts auction gala, The Corcoran Museum, Washington, DC (invitational)
2007 South Eastern College Art Association annual members juried exhibition: Museum of Culture and History, Charleston, WV (juried: Dr J. Susan Isaacs)
2007 The Appalachian Landscape: Bob Ross don’t live here no more: Group show in benefit of The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Huntington, WV
2007 State of West Virginia Faculty Exhibition, State Capitol Complex, Charleston, WV
2006 Majestic National: National Juried Exhibition: Majestic Galleries, Nelsonville, OH
2006 Birke Art Symposium: Invitational Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Huntington, WV
2006 30 Artists Think Yellow: Invitational, Taylor Art Annex, Charleston, WV
2006 Faculty Exchange Exhibition: Bradley University, Peoria, IL
2006 Centerpiece Auction: 25th Silver Anniversary: WPA Art Auction Gala, Corcoran Museum: Washington DC (Invitational)
2005 Oppidan Arts: Inaugural Exhibition: Morris Building Art Gallery, Huntington, WV
2005 WV Juried Exhibition: State Cultural Center, Charleston, WV (catalogue)
2005 WV State University: Collaborative Faculty Invitational Exhibition, Institute, WV
2005 Snowshoe Institute: The Best in Human Endeavor Snowshoe Mountain Resort, Summersville, WV
2005 I really want to see... the best of DC/Baltimore: Invitational Exhibition, Gallery Four, Baltimore, MD
2005 Existing to Remain, District of Columbia Art Center, in conjunction with NCECA (The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) Invitational Exhibition
2004 Summer Invitational: Radcliffe Gallery, Chestertown, MD
2004 Markings Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, in conjunction with Baltimore Sculptors Inc. Frederick, MD
2004 Diverse Works: Alpan Gallery: Director’s Choice, Huntington, NY
2004 Flora U.S. Smithsonian Institute: National Botanic Gardens, Washington DC
2004 Detour: alternate route: Stamp Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Invitational)
2004 Death Area 405: Baltimore, MD (group Invitational, catalogue)
2003 Sculpture Magazine: Outstanding Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition: (catalogue) Juried by: David Collins, Director of Storm King Art Center, Tom Otterness and Susan Taylor, Director of the Princeton Art Museum) Grounds for Sculpture, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ
2003 MFA Biennial Exhibition: Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2003 Three Generations: (group, invitational) Washington Square, Washington DC
2002 Magnificent 7: Wohlfarth Gallery, Brookland, MD (group, invitational)
2002 Sculpture Garden Show: Francesca Anderson Fine Art Portraits North, Lexington, MA (group, invitational)
2002 Not I. Am I?: International Show: CirclePoint Art space, Washington DC (catalogue)
2002 Sculpture Now: 2002: Washington Square, Washington DC
2001 Graduate Student Show: West Gallery: University of Maryland, College Park
1999 Clickers: Emerging Artists: Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY
1998 Drawing Regional: Lake George Arts Project: Courthouse Gallery, Lake George, NY
1998 Women of the Northeast: (group, juried) Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY
Conference Presentations
2008 Southeast College Art Conference (SECAC), Paper: Sculpture and Collaboration
2007 Southeast College Art Conference (SECAC), Paper: Extending Personal Research Behind Prison Walls
2007 Southeast College Art Conference (SECAC) Session Co-Chair: “You are... Where? Making Art Far From Metropolitan Areas”
Residencies
2024: ChaNorth, Artist Fellowship Residency, awarded by Paradise Palace, Pine Planes, NY
2024: Elizabeth Murray Alumni Residency Fellowship Award, Washington County, NY
2023: Walk Away House, Artist Residency Award. Looking Glass Studio, North Adams, MA
2018 Elizabeth Murray Pilot Residency Program, Washington County, NY
2014 Artist in Residence: The Arts Center of the Capitol Region, Troy, NY
2006 Artist in the Community Residency: Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
1998 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT