Sherry Kerlin
USA
Sherry Kerlin’s work is built around the many facets of the human condition. She examines both the physical and the metaphysical world. Her work includes narratives from the past and the present day, which can be playful and humorous or dark and mysterious. You feel as if you are viewing the images through a mist of memory.
Sherry Kerlin is from Oklahoma, and now lives and works in New York City. She attended the Chicago Art Institute and completed her BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute, in Kansas City in 1966. Kerlin has been exhibiting her work since 1981 in New York and throughout the United States. She received a Grant in 1995 from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and in 1992 she received a residency at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Solo Exhibitions
2018
The Mist of Memory; Jasso Arts; New York City, NY
2016
Installation; Jasso Arts; New York City, NY
2015
I Love You Bedford Avenue; Williamsburg, NY
2014
The Shape of Vapour (A Retrospective); Arthur M. Berger Art Gallery; Manhattanville College; Purchase, NY
2013
Pop Up Exhibition; 483 Gallery; Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Pop Up Exhibition; 143 Gallery; Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
New Work; Heskin Contemporary; New York City, NY
2008
Portraits of the Unseen, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY
2004
Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2002
Winston Wächter Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY
1997
Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1995
Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Two-person Exhibitions
2021
London Art Fair; curated by Louisa Warfield Art Consultancy; London, UK
2001
Scott White Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1998
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1997
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York City, NY
1993
Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, GA
Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY
1992
Bridgewater/Lustberg Gallery, New York City, NY
1991
Double Vision, Willoughby Sharp Gallery, New York City, NY
1990
A. I. R. Gallery, New York City, NY
1989
Trabia-MacAfee Gallery, New York City, NY
1985
O. K. Harris Gallery, New York City, NY
1982
O. K. Harris Gallery, New York City, NY
1981
O. K. Harris Gallery, New York City, NY
1980
Two Person Show, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, KS
Group Exhibitions
2023
Menschenbilder, Galerie Dumas, Linz (AT)
2021
The Doors of Perception: New Approaches to Realism; Ethan Cohen KuBe; Beacon, NY
2020
The Most Beautiful Night of Our Lives; curated by Pilar Alfanso; Mexico City, Mexico
Keyhole Art Fair (featured artist); @keyholeartfair.com
Monsters; Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2019
One Step Forward/Two Steps Back; (Not) Sheep Gallery; Columbus, Ohio
2018
Bridging Two Worlds: The Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead; Morbid Anatomy; Brooklyn, NY
2014
Love; Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art; Peekskill, NY
Summer Show; Heskin Contemporary; New York, NY
The Jim Morgan Collection; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art; The University of Alabama; Tuscaloosa, Alabama
2011
Captured (A Portrait Show); Curated by John Serdula, Heskin Contemporary, NY
2010
New Narrative; Curated by John Serdula, Heskin Contemporary, NY
2007
Aqua Art Miami: Heskin Contemporary, Aqua Hotel, Miami, FL
2006
En Masse, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY
2004
Multiflorous, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
People, Places, Things, DFN, New York, NY
2003
Barbara Levy Gallery, Fire Island, NY
2002
Rice/Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
James Graham and Sons, New York, NY
1998
Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
James Graham and Sons, New York, NY
1995
Fall Group Show, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Duck!, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1994
The Child’s Play, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY
Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Artists’ Guild, New Canaan, CT
1992
Group Show, A.I.R. Gallery, New York City, NY
1991
Choice Show, A.I.R. Gallery, New York City, NY
Alive!, Willoughby Sharp Gallery, New York City, NY
Group Show, Bess Cutler Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Artists Engulfed Against War, Art in General, New York City, NY
Scarlet Letters, The Woman’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
1990
Positive Actions: Visual Aids, The Clocktower, New York City, NY
Public Mirror: Artists Against Racial Prejudice, The Clocktower, New York City, NY
The Young and the Restless, Baltimore Museum, MD
1988
Small Works, BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, NY
Four-Person Show, Rebecca Waldman Fine Arts, New York City, NY
1987
Group Show, Nite Gallery, New York City, NY
Summer Group Show, Todd Capp Gallery, New York City, NY
Small Works (Jurors’ Award), BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, NY
Group Show, Locus Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
1986
Summer Group Show, Sensory Evolution Gallery, New York City, NY
Summer Group Show, Todd Capp Gallery, New York City, NY
Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York City, NY
1985
The Drawing Center Show, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Small Works, BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, NY
1983
Jim Morgan Memorial Travelling Exhibition, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
The Punch Line, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, NJ
The Great East River Bridge, 1883-1983, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Premier Group Show, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, KS
Marathon ’83, New York Road Runner Club, New York City, NY
Humor and Play in Art, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY
Thanking the Muse, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, KS
Common Sensibilities, Central Hall Gallery, New York City, NY
1982
Group Show, Myers Fine Arts Gallery, State University College, Plattsburgh, NY
Premier Group Show, O. K. Harris West, Scottsdale, AZ
1981
West 81, Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, MN
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Selected Works from the Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, KS
Art and the Law, Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, MN
Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York City, NY
Illustrations in
The New Yorker
Village Voice
GQ Magazine
Impulse Magazine
Raw Magazine
New York Times
Ever Emerging Magazine
Appointments & Awards
1997 – 1998
Instructor, Figure Drawing, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
1995
Grant Recipient (Drawing), New York Foundation for the Arts
1992
Resident, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1982 – 1985
Instructor, Beginning Drawing, New York University, New York City, NY
Selected Collections
Werner Kramarsky, NYC, NY
Starbucks Collection, Seattle, WA
Pfizer Collection, Belgium
Christine Wachter, NYC, NY
Liz Heskin, NYC, NY
Marc and Levia Straus, NY, NY
John Serdula, NYC, NY
Guillermo Sepulveda, Monterrey, Mexico
Mauricio Jasso, Monterrey, Mexico
Buster Seccia, Brooklyn, NY
Steven Kasher, New York City, NY
Adam Sheffer, New York City, NY
Susanne Dance, New York City, NY
Rusk Institute, New York City, NY
Eric Johnson, Mapplethorpe Foundation, New York City, NY
Louisa Warfield, London, England
Ethan Cohen, New York City, NY