SHERRY MARKOVITZ
Born in 1947 in Chicago; resides in Seattle.
EDUCATION
1975
MFA Printmaking, University of Washington, Seattle
1969
BA Ceramics and Art Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
The True Story, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
Shimmer: Paintings and Sculptures, 1979-2006, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA; Schneider
Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; curators Chris Bruce and Keith Wells, (book)
2003
Devotions, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle (catalog)
2001
Throwing Voices, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
2000
Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1997
Form and Figure, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York
1995
Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1992-93
ARTcurrents 10: Sherry Markovitz, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; traveled to Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA; curator Mark Leach (catalog)
1992
Life Forms, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
1987
Documents Northwest: Sherry Markovitz, Seattle Art Museum; curator Vicki Halper (catalog)
1985
Bejeweled, Bedazzled Trophies, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York
U.S. Projects, From Dust to Dust and In Between, Artist’s Space, New York; organized by Anne Focke (catalog)
1983
Easy Targets, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
1981
Bucks and Does, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
1979
Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
1977
Women: Body, Space and Personal Ritual, and/or Gallery, Seattle; curator Lucy Lippard (catalog)
SELETED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Northwest Mid-Career Artists, Seattle Public Utilities, Portable Works, Seattle.
Homage to the Artists,Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho.
A Show of Hands, Whatcom/Lightcatcher Building, Bellingham, Washinton. Curator Barbara Matilsky (catalog)
Made in America, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle.
2009
Out of Bounds, Art from the collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky,Whatcom/Lightcatcher Building,
Bellingham, Washington. curator Barbara Matilsky (catalog)
The Bead Quiz, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle. curator Pam McClusky.
New Acquistions, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, curator Michael Darling.
The Toy Show II, Lora Schlessinger Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
I.D. Individual Demographics, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle.
2008
No Joke: Selections from the Pruzan Collection, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA; curator Vicki Halper
Good Doll Bad Doll, Armory Center for the Arts; Pasadena; curator Michael Duncan.
Heads(disembodied), Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, Washinton, curator Jim Mcdonald (essay)
2007-2009
Contrasts: A Glass Primer, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA; curator Vicki Halper (catalog)
2007
Drawing in the New Year: Exploring Memory and Ancestry at the Jewish New Year, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle; curator Karen Kosoglad
2006
Made in Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, curator Susan Rosenberg
2005
Partners, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA; curator Deborah Paine
2004
Transformed by Fire: Sculpture in Glass from the Collection of Jack and Becky Benaroya, Seattle Art Museum; curator Margery Aronson
Shakespeare as Muse, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland; curator Josine Ianco-Starrels
The Hunt: Ritual and Narrative, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID curator Jennifer Gately.
Move, Rochester Art Center, MN; curator B.J. Shigaki
A Northwest Summer, Seattle Art Museum; curator Susan Rosenberg
2002
Imaging Cosmologies, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
2001
Northwest Masters: Selections from the City of Seattle Collection, City Space, Seattle; curator Beth Sellars
2000-01
Weird and Whimsical: Northwest Art from the Permanent Collection, Seattle Art Museum
2000 ½ Going Forward, Looking Back, Seattle Art Museum; curators Trevor Fairbrother and Chiyo Ishikowa.
1999
The Beaded Universe: Strands of Culture, American Craft Museum, New York
1997-2000
Pure Vision: American Bead Artists Exhibition, LSU Union Art Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Pensacola Museum of Art, FL;
Boise Art Museum, ID; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; Irvine Fine Art Center, Irvine, CA; Perspective Gallery, Blacksburg, VA; Leedy-Voulkos Art Center and Gallery, Kansas City, MO; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Lamont Gallery, Philips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA; Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; Arts and Science Center for SE Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR; Courthouse Galleries, Portsmouth, VA; Del Rio Council for the Arts, Del Rio, Texas; curator Sherry Leedy and B. J. Shigaki. Support provided by Exhibits USA, (catalog, with essay by Matthew Kangas)
1997
The Importance of Toys, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York
Seattle Collects Paintings, Seattle Art Museum; curator Trevor Fairbrother and Chiyo Ishikawa
Glass Today: American Studio Glass, Cleveland Museum of Art; curated by Henry Hawler (catalog)
Collection Highlights: 1945 - Present, Seattle Art Museum; curator Trevor Fairbrother
1996
Family Matters, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle (catalog)
1995
Contemporary Beads & Beadwork, Loveland Museum, CO
Beyond Tradition, Index Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA; curator Marjorie Hirsh
Breaking Barriers, Portland Art Museum, OR; Madison Art Center, WI; Albany Museum of Art, GA;
American Craft Museum, New York; curator, Matthew Kangas
1994
Wildlife, California Center for the Arts, Escondido; curator Reesey Shaw (catalog)
Pure Vision: American Bead Artists Exhibition, Rochester Art Center, Winona State University, MN;
Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
The Spirit of the Bead Ornamentation, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis
1993
The Shell Game: The Button as Craft, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA
Washington: Voices in Contemporary Sculpture, Bellevue Art Museum, WA
1992
Drawings by Sculptors, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
1991
Syncretism, Alternative Museum, New York; curator Geno Rodriguez (catalog)
Rodeo in Fact and Fiction, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK
1990\
Views and Visions in the Pacific Northwest, Seattle Art Museum; curator Barbara Johns
New Work, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
1989
2-D/3-D: Sculptor's Drawings, Seattle Art Museum; curator Vicki Halper
1988-91
Structure and Surface: Beads in Contemporary American Art, Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC;
JohnMichael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalog by Mark Leach)
1988
Contemporary Survey: Visible Presence in the Northwest, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA
1987-90
The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; circulated to San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Oakland Museum, CA; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Orlando Museum of Fine Arts, FL; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; curators Marcia Manhart and Tom Manhart. (catalog)
1987
Aspects of Drawing Part II: Representation, The Public Art Space, Seattle
Standing Ground: Sculpture by American Women, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; curator Sarah Roberts-Lafferty (catalog)
The Bead Goes On: Expressions in Contemporary Beadwork, Maude Kearns Art Center, Eugene, OR (catalog)
The Ubiquitous Bead, Bellevue Art Museum, WA; curator Ramona Solberg
1986-88
Third Western States Biennial, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; New Orleans Contemporary Art Center; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center; San
Antonio Museum of Art; Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT; San Jose Museum of Art; curator Charlotta Kotik (catalog)
1986
Northwest Impressions: Works on Paper, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
1985
American Women in Art: Works on Paper, U. N. Conference on Women, Nairobi, Kenya; curator Cynthia Navaretta (catalog)
1984
Strange, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; curator Chris Bruce (catalog)
Seattle Artists, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC, Canada
Surface, Material, Structure, Hodges/Banks Gallery, Seattle
1983
Self-Portraits, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle; traveled to Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (catalog, essay by Peter Frank)
Bumberbiennial - Art since 'Century 21' 1963-1983, Seattle Center; curator Matthew Kangas
]The American Artist as Printmaker, 23rd National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY; curator Barry Walker (catalog)
Group Show, University of Idaho, Moscow
Seattle Artists, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Pacific Northwest Today, Brentwood Gallery, St Louis, MO
1982
Urban Vernacular, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Animal Imagery, Sebastian Moore Gallery Denver
Washington Printmakers, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma
Windfall Press Project, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
1981
Big Paintings, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle
Portopia '81, King County Arts Commission, circulated to Kobe, Japan: curator Richard Andrews
Seattle Drawings, Seattle Pacific University, WA
The Farm Project, Arlington, WA
1980
Contemporary Washington State Artists, Cranberry Galleries, Ocean Spray Cranberry, Plymouth, MA
Raconteur: A Private View, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; curator Chris Bruce
1979
Nineteen Artists in Seventy-Nine, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle (catalog)
Cornish Faculty, Institute for Pedagogical Studies, Vladivostok, USSR
1977-78
Women: Body, Space and Personal Ritual, and/or Gallery, Seattle (catalog)
AWARDS, GRANTS, COMMISSIONS
2004
Fellowship, Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle
Illustration, Artsfund Sixteenth Annual Poster Award, Seattle
1990
Seattle Artists Grant, Seattle Arts Commission
1981
Special Projects Grant, and/or Gallery, Seattle
1979
Grant for painting, Washington Honors Program, Washington State Arts Commission
1977
Northwest Projects Grant, and/or Gallery, Seattle
1975-79
Artist Consultant for Viewlands Substation Project, Seattle Arts Commission, One Percent for Art program
PUBLIC COLLETIONS
Bank of America, Seattle
The Corning Museum of Glass, New York
Dow Jones Collection, New York
Junior League, Seattle
John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Arts and Design, (formerly American Craft Museum), New York
Progressive Insurance, Mayfield Village, OH
SAFECO Insurance, Seattle
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle City Light One Percent for Art Collection
Sheraton Hotel, Seattle
Tacoma Art Museum, WA
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle