Claire Sherman
   
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    Currently resides in Illinois
     
    EDUCATION
     
    2003–2005 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
      M.F.A., Painting and Drawing Department.
      Graduate Fellowship, SAIC, 2005.
       
    1999–2003 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
      B.A., Major in Fine Arts with a minor in Art History.
      Summa Cum Laude.
      University Scholar 2001–2003.
     
    EXHIBITIONS
    Represented by Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL.
       
    Solo Exhibitions
    2008 Brink, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL.
      Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA.
    2007 Slow Pan, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL.
      New Paintings, Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK.
      Knox College, Galesburg, IL.
    Group Exhibitions
    2008 Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY.
      Several Landscapes, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
      Gallery Group Show, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL.
      NEXT fair, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL.
    2007 . . . A Landscape Show., Samson Projects, Boston, MA.
      A Serious Paradise, Curated by Patricia Maloney.Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
      Somewhere over the Rainbow, Galleria Glance, Turin, Italy.
      New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Miami, FL.
      Zoo Fair, Kavi Gupta Gallery, London.
      Volta3, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
      Art Chicago Fair, Chicago, IL.
    2006 New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Miami, FL.
      Summer Group Show, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL.
      Volta2, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Basel, Switzerland.
      Moreover:  Practicing Representation and Abstraction.  The Beverly Art Center, Chicago.  Curated by Michelle Grabner.
    2005 Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery Summer Group Show, Chicago, IL.
      Aqua Art Fair, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Miami, FL.
      Slow Down:  Contemporary Abstraction from Chicago.  Curated by Howard Fonda and Matthew Rich at the University of Texas at Tyler.
      Gallery 2, SAIC, Chicago, IL, September.
      Gallery 2, SAIC, Chicago, IL, May.
      MFA Thesis Show, Gallery 2.
      Nippon Steel, Chicago, IL.
    2004 Peter Miller Gallery Group Show.
      Gallery 2, SAIC, Chicago, IL, September.
      Stray Show, General Store Booth, Chicago, IL.
      Emerging Illinois Artists, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL.
      Juror:  Staci Boris, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
    2003 University of Pennsylvania Senior Thesis Show, Addams Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
    2002 Vermont Studio Center Gallery Group Show, Johnson, VT.
       
    GRANTS
       
    2007 MacDowell Colony Travel Grant.
    2004 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, Canada.
    2003 Rose Undergraduate Research Award, University of Pennsylvania.
      Senior Thesis Research Award, University of Pennsylvania.
       
    FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
       
    2008 Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA.
    2007 MacDowell Colony.
    2006 Terra Foundation for American Art Summer Residency, Giverny, France.
    2005 Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Honorable Mention, Chicago, IL.
    2002 Vermont Studio Center, Full Fellowship, Johnson, VT.
       
    LECTURES AND VISITING ARTIST INVITATIONS
       
    2008 Visiting Artist, Oxbow School of Art.
    2007 Visiting Artist, Northwestern University.
    2006 Visiting Critic, Haverford College.
    2005 College Art Association Conference, Studio Art Open Session, Painting:  Issues of Color.
       
       
    WORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
       
    Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas.
    Martin Margulies, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, Florida.
    UBS Bank Collection.
       
    PRESS
       
    2008 New City, “Review:  Claire Sherman/Kavi Gupta Gallery, Rachel Furnari, June 5, 2008.
      Centerstage Chicago, “Better as a Group”, Alicia Eler, July 1, 2008.
      New City, “Summer Camp”, Jason Foumberg, July 10, 2008.
      Flavorpill Chicago, Rachel Adams,  July 7, 2008.
      Time Out Chicago, Lauren Weinberg, July 31, 2008.
      The New York Times, “Today’s Landscape, Tomorrow’s Dystopia”, Benjamin Genocchio, June 1, 2008.
      The Chicago Tribune, Alan Artner, May 16, 2008.
    2007 Flash Art, Jane Neal,  Vol.XL, No.253.  March – April 2007, P.72.
      Time Out Chicago, Josh Tyson.  Issue 107:  March 15 – 21.
      Chicago Tribune, Alan Artner, March 2, 2007.
      The Sunday Times, London, David Budworth, February 11, 2007,
      The New York Times, Jori Finkel, February 4, 2007.
    2006 New American Painting, Juried Exhibition in Print, Mid-Atlantic region. April, 2006.
       
    TEACHING
       
    2006–Present Assistant Professor, Knox College.
    2005–2006 Seventh and eighth grade Art Teacher at The Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
    2005 Roving Teaching Substitute, SAIC Undergraduate Painting Department.
      Teaching Assistant for SAIC Undergraduate Painting Department and SAIC’s Early College Program.
       
    OTHER
       
    2008 Drawing Center Viewing Program, NY