Sheri Simons
artista/ artist

Using materials such as wood, steel, electronics, men’s dress shirts, rubber, organ pipes, Sheri Simons (b. Detroit, Michigan, 1954) creates sculptures that engage the viewer with sight, sound, and movement. Her works of art utilize sculpture as an instrument, something designed to cause or aid in an action or reaction. Born and educated in Michigan, with a BFA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Simons has resided in California since the mid-1980s. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the Michigan Council for the Arts. Residencies have taken her around the globe, including the Japan-US Friendship Commission and Youkobo Art Space residencies in Tokyo; a residency at ZK/U: Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik in Berlin; and a residency at Artpark in New York. In 2019, Simons worked in the Glass Shop as a G.A.P.P. (Guest Artist Pavilion Project) artist in residence at the Toledo Museum of Art.

Her sculptures have been included in exhibitions at such institutions as the Fukushima Biennale, Japan; the Cranbrook Museum, Michigan; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, the Kansas City Art Institute; and the Detroit Institute of Arts. 

For more information, visit her website: www.sherisimons.com

Sheri Simons, After All, 2019Sheri Simons, Installation view, Vanished A Chronicle of Loss and Discovery Across Half a Milli...Sheri Simons, Construct #0032, Vanished A Chronicle of Loss and Discovery Across Half a Million...Sheri Simons, Construct #0035, Vanished A Chronicle of Loss and Discovery Across Half a Million...Sheri Simons, Construct #0000 Vanished A Chronicle of Loss and Discovery Across Half a Million...
Sheri Simons, With or Without, 2004-2012Sheri Simons, Smudge (with human), 2005Sheri Simons, Sayonara, 2002

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