Interested in the physical and visceral qualities of paint, Claire Sherman explores the ways in which landscape painting could be utilized within a conceptual practice. Eschewing the horizon line, or the vista, Sherman draws on actual locations (some she has visited in life, some only through photography) that expanded into invented places. The result of close looking, Sherman’s paintings speak to the rapidly changing natural world, as much as the intimate relationship between the viewer’s body and the landscape.

CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1981, Oberlin, OH
Lives and works in Guttenberg, NJ

EDUCATION
2005
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL M.F.A., Painting and Drawing Department
Graduate Fellowship, SAIC, 2005

2003
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
B.A., Major in Fine Arts with a minor in Art History
Summa Cum Laude, Dean’s List each year
University Scholar, elected in 2001 and continuing through 2003

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Petrichor, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

2022
Intuor, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

2021
Here now, Kimball Arts Center, Park City, UT
Proximity, PATRON, Chicago, IL

2019
New Pangaea, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY. Catalogue with essay by Melissa Messina

2017
Fern Canyon, KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY

2016
West Ridge, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY. Catalogue with essay by Michelle Grabner Claire Sherman, Mitsui Fudosan America, 527 Madison Ave., New York, NY

2015
Funeral Mountain, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL

2014
Sempervirens, DC Moore Gallery. Catalogue with essay by Joe Fyfe

2013
Sequoiadendron Giganteum, The Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2011
Palms Wild, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL

2010
Drawings, Hartmann Gallery, Bradley University Galleries, Peoria, IL

2009
DCKT Gallery, New York, NY
Downward, Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Hof and Huyser, Amsterdam, NL

2008
Brink, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA

2007
Slow Pan, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK 
Knox College, Galesburg, IL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Master Class: Inside the Last American Museum School with SAIC Painting Alumni, SECRIST| BEACH, Chicago, IL

2024
Understory, Pamela Salibury Gallery, Hudson, NY
Intimate Landscapes, The Orange Advisory, Minneapolis, MN
Who is There?,  DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Intervals, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

2023
Come a Little Closer, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

2022
Form, Figure, Abstraction, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Greener Grass, curated by David Kennedy Cutler, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY,
Becoming Trees, Concord Art,Concord, MA, Curated by Fritz Horstman.

2021 
Reflect, Reframe, Remake, Remodel - 40 Years of Recrafting KMAC, KMAC Museum of Art, Louisville, KY
Landscape and Memory, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
Five: A Group Exhibition, DC Moore Gallery, NY.

2020
Root + Branch, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
The Bottomlessness of a Pond:Transcendentalism, Nature, and Spirit, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, ID.
Happy Agitation, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME

2019
Certain Women, Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Houston, TX
Arboreal, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Curated by Margo Ann Crutchfield

2018
Line Up, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

2017
American Genre:Contemporary Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Curated by Michelle Grabner
Paper, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
Accordion Space, curated by Laini Nemett Feigenbaum, Center for Visual Arts at Union College, Schenectady, NY
Out of View, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

2016
Luscious, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
Group Show, Suburban Riverwest, Milwaukee, WI
DAYADAHAHA, BEEFHAUS, Fort Worth, TX

2015
Chrome Green, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Atmosphere, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
(un)real, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Living Threads, New York Studio School, New York, NY
Stair-Gazing, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
Painterly Perspectives, Williams Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, PA

2013
Woods, Lovely, Dark, and Deep, DC Moore Gallery, NY Seven Borders, The Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
Half*Life Apartment Show, Brooklyn, NY
This Land, Salisbury University, MD
Girls Just Want to Have Funds, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, La Mama Galleria, NY

2012
Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2-Person Show, Aurobora, San Francisco, CA
Living in Art and Design, Gallery Seomi, Seoul, Korea
Small Punch Biopsy, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
Tenses of Landscape, University of Arkansas

2011
Personal Tempest, UH Galleries, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK; The New Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria. Curated by Tereza Kotyk
Summer, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
Free Range, Painting and the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, PA

2010
It’s My World, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
Girls Just Want to Have Funds, P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
Ox-Bow, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
Knox College Faculty Drawing Show, Ford Center for Fine Arts Gallery, Galesburg, IL

2009
On Paper, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, IL

2008
Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Several Landscapes, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Wintergarten, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
Gallery Group Show, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007
…A Landscape Show., Samson Projects, Boston, MA
A Serious Paradise, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Patricia Maloney
Somewhere over the Rainbow, Galleria Glance, Turin, Italy

2006
Moreover: Practicing Representation and Abstraction, curated by Michelle Grabner, The Beverly Art Center, Chicago
Summer Group Show, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL

2005
Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery Summer Group Show, Chicago, IL
Slow Down: Contemporary Abstraction from Chicago. Curated by Howard Fonda and Matthew Rich at the University of Texas at Tyler
Group Show, Gallery 2, September-October. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Group Show, Gallery 2, May – June. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
MFA Thesis Show, Gallery 2
Nippon Steel, Chicago, IL

2004
Emerging Illinois Artists, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
Juror: Staci Boris, Associate Curator, MCA, Chicago Group Show, Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Show, Gallery 2, September-October. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Stray Show, General Store Booth, Chicago, IL

2003
Senior Thesis Show, University of Pennsylvania, Addams Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
University of Pennsylvania Juried Fox Gallery Show, Philadelphia, PA

2002
Vermont Studio Center Gallery Group Show, Johnson, VT

2001
University of Pennsylvania Juried Fox Gallery Show, Philadelphia, PA

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES
2019
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Artist Fellowship Award in Painting

2017
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency, CT

2012-13
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Workspace Residency, NY, NY

2013
Drew University Faculty Travel Grant and Faculty Research Grant

2012
Aurobora, San Francisco, CAӬDrew University Faculty Travel Grant and Faculty Research Grant

2011
Yaddo residency, Saratoga Springs, NY. (Philip Guston and Musa McKim Sponsored Residency)

2009-10
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, The Space Program, Brooklyn, NY

2009
Knox College Summer Faculty Research Grant

2008
Aurobora Press, San Franscisco, CA
Knox College Summer Faculty Research Grant

2007
MacDowell Colony, MacDowell Colony Travel Grant, Funded by the MacArthur Foundation

2006
Terra Foundation for American Art Summer Residency, Giverny, France

2005
Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Honorable Mention, Chicago, IL

2004
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2003
Rose Undergraduate Research Award, University of Pennsylvania Senior Thesis Research Award, University of Pennsylvania

2002
Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship, Johnson, VT

2001-2003
Awarded University Scholars’ Summer Research Grants

PRESS
2025
Alex Grimley, “Claire Sherman: Petrichor”, Brooklyn Rail. March

2022
Barbara A. MacAdam, “Claire Sherman: Intuor”, Brooklyn Rail, May

2020 
Edgar Allen Beem, “Art Seen: ‘Happy Agitation’ at Able Baker Contemporary in Portland”, Portland 
Pheonix, February 5.

2019 
“4 paintings reproduced”, Harper’s Magazine, May
Louis Bury, “Claire Sherman’s Leafy Canvases”, Hyperallergic, March 30
Nan Stewart, “Editor’s Picks: 18 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art world This Week”, Artnet News.
March 25
Pac Pobric, “Editor’s Picks: 18 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art world This Week”, Pac Pobric, March
11

2017 
“2 paintings reproduced”, Harper’s Magazine, P. 20, November 
Michael Paglia, “Robischon Gallery Has Another Winner with Out of View”, Westword, June 6th
“Artist Spotlight: Claire Sherman”, Booooooom, March 28
Paul Laster, “Dallas Art Fair vs. SP-Arte: Texas tackles Brazil”, WMWhitehot Magazine, April
Elizabeth Kramer, “KMAC Exhibit Gives Lush View of Landscapes”, Courier Journal, March 22
Ben Davis, “Searching for Meaning (aka Art Trends) at the 2017 Armory Show”, Artnet News, March 2nd

2016 
“Goings on About Town: Claire Sherman”, The New Yorker, October 24
Dan Piepenbring, “Look: West Ridge”, The Paris Review, October 18
James Yood, “Top Ten 2015: Chicago”, Art Ltd., January 14

2015 
Peter Haldeman,“Jeffrey Bilhuber Gives this Seattle Home a Stylish Makeover”, Architectural Digest, 
December 1
“Michelle Grabner’s Picks from EXPO Chicago”, Artspace, September
Kevin Blake, “Funeral Mountain: Claire Sherman at Kavi Gupta”, BadatSports, June 10
Kelly Reaves, “Claire Sherman/Kavi Gupta”, Newcity Art, June 29
“Five Fantastic Things to Do in Chicago this Week”, Chicago Magazine, July 30

2014  
Sarah Goffstein, “Claire Sherman, Sempervirens”, Brooklyn Rail, October 3
Rob Colvin, “Interview”, Hyperallergic , February 11
“Video Interview”, Gorky’s Granddaughter, February
“Claire Sherman Studio Visit”, Painter’s Table, February

2013 
Corinna Kirsch, “Lime Green: Claire Sherman”, ArtFCity, December 3
Wall Street International, “Woods, Lovely, Dark and Deep”, June 14
“Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft Presents the 7 Boarders, an Exhibition Mapping Kentucky’s Regional Identity”, Artdaily, July 24
Mary Addison Hackett, “Miami, Day 4: Claire Sherman, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Joel Kyack and More”, Nashville Scene, December 11
Sue Strachan, “St.Claude Arts District Gallery Openings Paint a Scene”, The Times-Picayune, September
19

2012 
 Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, “The art of inspiration – Claire Sherman: It’s all in the experiment”, Chicago Tribune, July 7
Megan Wolfe, “Do Not Destroy, A Special Exhibition of Trees in Culture and Religion, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum”, Warholian, March 12
“Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought”, Contemporary Jewish Museum [cat.]

2011  
James Yood, “Claire Sherman: ‘Palms Wild’ at Kavi Gupta Gallery”, Art Ltd., May
Michelle Grabner, “Claire Sherman’s Palms Wild at Kavi Gutpa, Chicago”, Art Agenda, April 5
Steven Zevitas, “Body, Landscape, Space: Top Ten Painting Shows in the U.S.”, Huffington Post, March 9
Paul Klein, “Strong Exhibits for a February Spring”, Huffington Post, February 19
Chris Lowrance, “Q & A with Claire Sherman”, MW Capacity, March 2
Lori Waxman, “The Ugly Beauty of Life in a Moment”, Chicago Tribune, March 4

2009 
Amber Vilas, “Claire Sherman in New York”, ArtInfo, August 13
Amir H Fallah, “Claire Sherman’s Landscape Paintings”, Beautiful/Decay, August 14
“Claire Sherman”, The L Magazine, July
W. Robinson, “Artists for Sharpe Foundation ‘Space Program”, Artnet, July 21

2008  
“The Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Painting and Sculpure. “ The Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Inc. [cat.]
Jason Foumberg, “Top 5 of Everything in 2008, Art and Museums: Top 5 Contemporary Art Exhibitions about Nature”, New City, December 30
Rachel Furnari, “Review: Claire Sherman/Kavi Gupta Gallery”, New City, June 5
Alicia Eler,”Better as a Group”, Centerstage Chicago, July 1
Jason Foumberg, “Summer Camp”, New City, July 10
Lauren Weinberg, Rachel Adams,”Several Landscapes and 3 Landscapes in the Modern Style”, Flavorpill Chicago, July
Time Out Chicago, Several Landscapes,July 31
Benjamin Genocchio, “Today’s Landscape, Tomorrow’s Dystopia”, The New York Times, June 1
Alan Artner, “Claire Sherman”, The Chicago Tribune, May 16

2007 
Jane Neal, “Claire Sherman at Houldsworth Gallery:, Flash Art International, Vol.XL, No.253. March 
April, P.72
Josh Tyson, Time Out Chicago, Issue 107: March 15 – 21
Alan Artner, “Claire Sherman: Slow Pan”, Chicago Tribune, March 2
David Budworth, :With Paintings Fetching Record Prices, Experts Fear the Market May Be at Its
Peak”, The London Sunday Times, February 11
Jori Finkel,”Art: You’ve Seen the E-mail, Now Buy the Art”, The New York Times, February 4

2006
“Juried Exhibition in Print, Mid-Atlantic region”, New American Painting, April

LECTURES AND VISITING ARTIST INVITATIONS
2015-2019
Recurring Visiting Critic, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (PAFA), Graduate Program

2019
Green Series: Claire Sherman on New Pangaea, Brooklyn Pubic Library, Williamsburg

2018
Visiting Artist, New York University, New York, NY
2018 Visiting Artist, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

2017
Visiting Artist, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Summer Workshop, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts Program Mentor, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2016
Visiting Artist, Pratt Painting Club, Brooklyn, NY
Drawing Marathon, New York Studio School, New York, NY
Visiting Judge and Artist, Union College, Schenectady, New York

2015
Summer visiting critic and artist lecture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Visiting Artist, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York
Visiting Artist, Northern Illinois University
The New School, New York. Lecture for John Zinsser’s Course, “The Art of Viewing Art”

2014
New York Public Library, Panel Discussion Visiting Artist, New York Studio School
Visiting Judge, Art Students League, NY

2013
Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts MFA program, NY Visiting Artist, College of New Jersey
Visiting Artist, University of Central Missouri Visiting Artist, Grinnell College

2012
Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute College of Art Visiting Artist, University of Arkansas

2011
Visiting Artist, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design

2010
Visiting Artist, Bradley University

2009
Visiting Artist, Massachusetts College of Art
Visiting Critic, Maryland Institute College of Art, Intermediate Painting

2008
Visiting Artist, Ox-Bow School of Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

2007
Visiting Artist, Northwestern University

2006
Visiting Critic, Haverford College

2005
College Art Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, Studio Art Open Session, Painting: Issues of Color, Chair: Susanna Coffey

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2015 - Present
Associate Professor, Drew University. (Chair of Art Department, 2017-Present)

2011 - 2015
Assistant Professor, Drew University

2006 - 2011
Assistant Professor, Knox College.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES
2019 
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Artist Fellowship Award in Painting

2017 
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency, CT
2013 
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Workspace Residency, NY, NY
Drew University Faculty Travel Grant and Faculty Research Grant

2012  
Aurobora, San Francisco, CA
Drew University Faculty Travel Grant and Faculty Research Grant

2011  
Yaddo residency, Saratoga Springs, NY. (Philip Guston and Musa McKim Sponsored Residency)

2009 
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, The Space Program, Brooklyn, NY
Knox College Summer Faculty Research Grant

2008 
Aurobora Press, San Franscisco, CA
Knox College Summer Faculty Research Grant

2007 
MacDowell Colony, MacDowell Colony Travel Grant, Funded by the MacArthur Foundation

2006 
Terra Foundation for American Art Summer Residency, Giverny, France 

2005 
Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Honorable Mention, Chicago, IL

2004   
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2003   
Rose Undergraduate Research Award, University of Pennsylvania
Senior Thesis Research Award, University of Pennsylvania

2002 
Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship, Johnson, VT

2001 - 2003 
Awarded University Scholars’ Summer Research Grants

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
American Association of Medical Colleges
Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State
Arkansas Museum of Art, Little Rock, AR
Blue Cross & Blue Shield Association
The Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua
The Federal Reserve
BMO Harris Bank, Chicago, IL
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Harris Bank, Chicago, IL
KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY
The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Memorial Sloan Kettering
Mercer Corporation, Chicago, IL
Minneapolis Institute of Art,  Minneapolis, MN
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
The UBS Art Collection, London
The UBS Art Collection, United States